/johnny
Posted on 07/10/2014 10:54:59 AM PDT by PoloSec
On Tuesday, Tom Coburn (R-OK) went on CNN’s Crossfire to discuss the Obama-orchestrated flood of illegals. The President wants $3.7 billion dollars to deal with the problem, but Coburn had a different solution. “For less than $20 million we can fly them all back - first class.”
The next day, Coburn made the claim again - but this time he said it would cost “under $20 million.”
Well, the eagle-eyed fact checkers at the Politico weren’t about to let such an egregious flip-flop go. No-siree-bob! They pounced with a story called “Coburn’s tickets home just went up.”
According to the worst website in the world, there’s just no way Coburn could put every illegal in first class for the amount of money he was claiming. So he had to “revise his estimate.” Busted!!
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Of course, The Politico then acknowledged the following claim made by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI):
“I went online earlier,” Johnson said on CNN. “There are airfares as low as $207 to return these children in a humane fashion.”
Johnson looked up five separate airfares as options for getting the unaccompanied children back to their countries of origin, he told POLITICO on Wednesday afternoon. He averaged the costs to a fare of $250 a child and found that the total cost of flying the children home — though not first class — came to $14 million.
Not. First. Class.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
/johnny
good one
(time to support Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) "Illegal Entry Accountability Act")
The GOP should be running ads on how much this invasion will negatively affect URBAN areas the most...then watch the dems squirm...as their constituencies get nervous.
"None of these stories on Red Eye tonight"
I agree the aid should be cut as well. However, most of the aid is skimmed by the establishment in those countries. The money the illegal aliens send goes to the people and fuels the economy. Cut 10 to 20 % of the spendable income of any country and you cause a real problem for the ruling class. Cut that first and the flow stops.
Too bad we have a GOP with no stones.
Vegas odds probably even money, cry-baby will cave.
/johnny
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