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Coburn: 'For $8M, We Can Put them All on a First-Class Seat Back to Their Homes'
cnsnews.com ^ | 7/9/14 | Susan Jones

Posted on 07/09/2014 11:13:25 AM PDT by BlatherNaut

On the same day President Obama asked Congress for $3.7 billion dollars to deal with the crisis at the Southwest border, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) called it "the wrong approach."

"Look, for $8 million, we can put them all on a first-class seat back to their homes. That's $8 million. That's a first-class seat, one way, to each of their homes," Coburn told CNN's "Crossfire" on Tuesday.

"That's $60,000 per child that we're going to spend, in emergency money. Can we -- first of all, that shows just how incompetent we -- we can't do that for $3(000) or $4,000 per child? That's No. 1.

"No. 2 is, if we can't do that, the Border Patrol is as bad as the V.A. And by the way, the vast majority of Border Patrol are not patrolling the border right now. They're involved in the humanitarian crisis."

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1 posted on 07/09/2014 11:13:25 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: BlatherNaut

Bttt


2 posted on 07/09/2014 11:15:03 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: BlatherNaut

SEND THEM BACK!


3 posted on 07/09/2014 11:15:08 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: BlatherNaut

Congress should approve $8-20 million to send them back. Let Obama deal with explaining why we should spend $60,000 per child.


4 posted on 07/09/2014 11:17:07 AM PDT by boycott
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“Look, for $8 million, we can put them all on a first-class seat back to their homes. That’s $8 million. That’s a first-class seat, one way, to each of their homes,” Coburn told CNN’s “Crossfire” on Tuesday.

Nonsense. With a group buy like that you’d get a big discount, plus the frequent flier miles should be factored in.


5 posted on 07/09/2014 11:17:48 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: boycott

The $3.7 billion is money for cronies. Never let a crisis go to waste.


6 posted on 07/09/2014 11:18:33 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: BlatherNaut; Liz; AuntB; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; ...

“Look, for $8 million, we can put them all on a first-class seat back to their homes. That’s $8 million. That’s a first-class seat, one way, to each of their homes,” Coburn told CNN’s “Crossfire” on Tuesday.
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Gee that’s a whole lot cheaper than the bid Obama put in to process the illegal aliens..


7 posted on 07/09/2014 11:18:36 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Roller coaster style row seats and some C-130’s...the Air National Guard can practice touch and goes in southernmost Mexico.


8 posted on 07/09/2014 11:18:41 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Moonman62

And if you sent them by Coach they could each have a new Obamaphone too!


9 posted on 07/09/2014 11:18:52 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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And why not fly them home? If they were really "refugees" they'd escape their homelands and stop and ask for refuge when they crossed into the next country. Belize, Pamama, and Mexico for example.

Refugees don't plan to travel through other countries and then sneak into their preferred destination. That's an invasion. Of course they should be sent home.

10 posted on 07/09/2014 11:20:20 AM PDT by grania
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To: Moonman62

The $3.7 billion is money for cronies. Never let a crisis go to waste.


Forcing Obama to put them on planes to send them home would make Obama look like a bigger buffoon than he already is.


11 posted on 07/09/2014 11:20:45 AM PDT by boycott
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Border Patrol are not patrolling the border right now. They’re involved in the humanitarian crisis.”

Humanitarian crisis. There it is. Every single one of them have adopted the left’s rhetoric.


12 posted on 07/09/2014 11:20:47 AM PDT by sheana
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To: PATRIOT1876

Load them on a barge and ship them to the southern tip of Mexico, offload them on the beach or a dock.

Then Mexico can push them the rest of the way back south.

Make it Mexico’s problem and they will stop them at their border!


13 posted on 07/09/2014 11:21:51 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: BlatherNaut

Budgeting for more kids to come.


14 posted on 07/09/2014 11:22:01 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: sheana

They moved 70% of the BP off the border to change diapers...


15 posted on 07/09/2014 11:22:22 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: BlatherNaut

Obama ass-rapes the country, blames it for dressing provacatively, and then charges it for lube.


16 posted on 07/09/2014 11:23:47 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Moonman62

what is wrong with a troop transport plane?

have the military fly um back.

Cheaper than commercial and less risk (military plans are easier to disinfect)


17 posted on 07/09/2014 11:24:39 AM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: BlatherNaut; Liz

The senate committee meeting this morning

Sen Ron Johnson (R-WI) said he went online and found that it costs $207 to fly to Guatemala..


18 posted on 07/09/2014 11:24:44 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: BlatherNaut
Does anyone at Free Republic not appreciate what is really going on here?

If this be not treason, what is it?

William Flax

19 posted on 07/09/2014 11:25:34 AM PDT by Ohioan
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Coburn is still willing to negotiate to half that amount - 1.65 Billion - just for the placement. That’s insane - no money. Make the feds “make-do” just like they expect communities to “make-do” once the illegals overwhelm the schools, welfare system, medical facilities, etc.


20 posted on 07/09/2014 11:27:00 AM PDT by Girlene (Hey NSA!)
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