Posted on 08/27/2011 10:53:16 PM PDT by Right Wingnut 2
I just read the text of Rick Perry's remarks to the Border Summit on Aug, 21st 2001. How in the hell is this stuff slipping through the cracks without a single mention in the conservative press? If this had been Obama, Sean Hannity would have been talking about it 24/7 during the last presidential campaign.
There are many passages in the speech that are of great concern to me, but this one really caught my attention.
...Legislation authored by border legislators Pat Haggerty and Eddie Lucio establishes an important study that will look at the feasibility of bi-national health insurance. This study recognizes that the Mexican and U.S. sides of the border compose one region, and we must address health care problems throughout that region. That’s why I am also excited that Texas Secretary of State Henry Cuellar is working on an initiative that could extend the benefits of telemedicine to individuals living on the Mexican side of the border....
Does Rick Perry still support an international health insurance program such as the one he laid out in his speech that day? Will someone in the media please ask him before it's too late?
You can read the entire text of Perry's speech HERE
So this insurance is NOT a federally or even state-subsidized insurance program but instead is one where the insurance companies can cover those paying customers from both The U.S. or Mexico? That’s what I’m getting, and if so...
WHO CARES IF INDIVIDUALS WANT TO PAY FOR THEIR OWN PRIVATE INSURANCE THAT WILL COVER THEM?
Opps dila813, those caps were not meant for you! :)
Yes, you are right
I am not sold on Perry, but I hate bs of trying to take one word that can be misconstrued and politicized.
I just want to be able to make honest comparisons of the candidates without the drama.
I actually took the picture at a Rick Pherry rally everybody was wearing them.
LG - bringing your attention to this comment and the whole thread.
Generally speaking, in a presidential candidate you want someone who would at least think about working for your interest.
Rick Perry is all leased-up, sorry. He has a small group of about 200 major supporters, of whom maybe 30 *really* count, and you can't even talk to those guys unless you've got $200 million in the bank.
Don't bother Rick. He's busy, working for The Man.
Actually he appears not to.
In the last session of the Texas Lege, Perry did some posturing at the start of the session -- that's all it was, posturing -- about going after "sanctuary cities" for their forbidding police to inquire about or even look at questions of illegal immigration. And yet he had given the Texas DPS (state troopers) the same guidance himself.
Some cities like Houston have now had police officers murdered by armed illegal aliens, so that the "sanctuary" mayors have had to answer for these deaths -- which in former Mayor Bill White's case in Houston, took the form of his running for governor against Perry. He lost.
Rick Perry's original pro-sanctuary, pro-illegal policy.
During the special session just ended, Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, and Texas house speaker Joe Straus made sure that Perry's phony early-session rant against "sanctuary cities" did NOT become law. A bill was knifed and left to bleed to death in the middle of the street as the session came to an end.
Unless they think that sold-out poseurs make good defenders of their own interests, somehow.
So, dumb ass, who are you going to vote for?
Later, dude.
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