Posted on 08/30/2005 3:22:01 PM PDT by Constitution Restoration Act
Two Democratic Governors, Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Janet Napolitano of Arizona, have declared a state of emergency and asked for federal help to deal with the costs of the violence and property damage caused by illegal aliens coming over their southern borders. If President Bush lets these partisan Democrats get to the right of him on the immigration issue, all Republicans will suffer in the next election.
Dr. Madeleine Cosman, Esq. is a national authority on the diseases brought into our country by illegal aliens, who of course are not given health examinations required of all legal immigrants. Apparently, some people would like to prevent her from presenting her message to the public.
Along with Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and several California public officials, she was scheduled to speak at the Carlsbad Cultural Center on August 11 in a forum called Defense of Our Nation Begins at Our Borders. The facility broke its contract for the event because of threats from illegal-alien activists, and only a timely lawsuit persuaded the Center to allow the event to take place.
The anti-free-speech activists didn't go away quietly. About 200 loud, bullhorn-shouting protesters, mostly Hispanic and some Muslims in headscarves or burkas, did their best to disrupt the meeting and scare the attendees. It took 250 police officers in full gear with face shields and automatic weapons, plus SWAT team members in black tank-like vehicles, to keep the demonstrators at bay.
The message Dr. Cosman delivered to a standing-room only crowd should be heard by all Americans. She spoke about the 84 California hospitals that closed between 1994 and 2003 because EMTALA, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, requires every emergency room to treat every patient coming with an "emergency" (including childbirth) even if unable to pay and even if illegally in the United States.
The law is tough; hospitals and doctors are fined up to $50,000 for refusing to treat. This unfunded federal mandate has caused dozens of hospitals to go bankrupt.
Dr. Cosman, who is both a Ph.D. and a lawyer, described the infectious diseases now spreading across the United States. Contagious diseases that our country wiped out years ago, such as malaria, polio, tuberculosis, and hepatitis, and rare diseases of Third World poverty such as leprosy, Chagas Disease, and Dengue Fever, are coming in.
The Centers for Disease Control reported 38,291 California cases of tuberculosis that included Multiple Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, which is 60 percent fatal and for which treatment costs $200,000 to $1,200,000 per patient. Illegal aliens are also bringing in syphilis and gonorrhea.
It is a mystery to those of us in heartland America what President Bush must be thinking of when he continues to push for his unpopular guest-worker/amnesty plan to allow millions of illegal aliens in our country to stay here without punishment, and to invite millions more "willing workers" to come on in. How many "willing workers" do you think there are in the rest of the world?
The Pew Hispanic Center has just provided us with a clue. A Pew survey in May of migration attitudes in 120 locations in Mexico showed that 46 percent of Mexicans (that means 49 million people) said they would live in the United States if they had the opportunity, and two out of ten are willing to come here illegally.
Maybe the reason the Bush Administration is so out of touch with reality on this issue is that, for five years, the opinion survey mailed out by the Republican Party to millions of potential donors pretended that the illegal-alien issue doesn't exist. I complained about this over two years ago when the survey included only one question on immigration out of 54.
We've made some progress; the latest Republican survey contains eight questions on immigration out of 57. But this issue still is not included in the sections on the Economy (even though illegal aliens working in the underground economy are avoiding taxes and depressing wages for Americans), or Social Security (even though Bush is still pressing for his Totalization plan to put illegal aliens in our Social Security system), or Education (even though the taxpayers are suffering a tremendous tax burden to educate illegal aliens).
The Republican Party's survey still avoids asking us our opinion about the Kennedy Diversity Visa Lottery that admits 50,000 aliens a year mostly from non-Western countries, or the tremendous costs to the taxpayers from giving illegal aliens free medical care or in-state college tuition rates, or the need to close our borders to contagious diseases and illegal drugs, or the need to inspect all the Mexican trucks that a NAFTA tribunal ordered us to admit into the United States, or the racket of smuggling very-pregnant aliens into our country so they can give birth to their babies in the U.S., or the use of foreign-language ballots (which is ridiculous since the ability to read English is a requirement to become a citizen and only citizens are supposed to vote).
As a 62 year old conservative Republican, I find George Bush to be the worst Republican president in my lifetime. He is not fit even to shine Richard Nixon's shoes. My conclusion is that he is even dumber than the Democrats claim him to be.
After 5 years, he appears to have no energy policy, and we suffer the results every day at the gas pump and elsewhere. His Iraq war has been an expensive and deadly fiasco at a time when he should have been going full speed in Afghanistan to capture and/or kill Bin Laden. His total lack of interest in securing America's borders borders on criminal. I sure hope this country can survive 3 more years of this incompetent man.
" Peres has called for a de-emphasis on sovereignty in his region and argued for a Middle Eastern version of the European Union."
Peres has an excuse for being such an ass - he is a Jew and many of my co-religionists are socialism impaired.
But Peres would be well advised to remember the joke about four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner before he gets his wish for a Middle East super sized government.
What of Israel's bad experiences at the hands of the UN can this pitiful "oven Jew" not remember?
Why do such people continue to keep going back to socialism like a horse to a burning barn?
I wonder how much Bush will have to borrow from China to pay off this bill? Now that we owe billions to rebuild the South, one would think he'd take pity on the poor American citizens and stop the criminals coming into America, who are sucking us dry. But no, I would imagine that Bush is so insulated by his handlers he doesn't even know any Mexicans are in America now.
Bush had better wake up! This country is headed for bankruptcy. We can't continue to pay for the world's problems, as well as our own, with the middle class being forced into low paying jobs by the illegals. Doesn't anybody in the Bush administration know what is going on? Doesn't any Republican care? I know this is stretching it a lot, but doesn't any Democrat care?
Enjoy your short stay.
fyi
store the info away....you know you'll have to pull it out later....because no one ever remembers the facts or the truth.
Did a hurricane hit either of these states?
Go away, Bill Richardson and Janet Napolitano. Come back when you have a REAL crisis on your hands. Bush is pretty busy elsewhere.
Debating whether or not he should meet personally with Cindy Sheehan (again).
Or maybe to put a little more pressure on Aruba to come up with the persons who had something to do with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
How about the price of gasoline at the pump? And here you people go worrying about a little thing like having to close hospitals and beef up local law enforcement, all just becaus of a few illegal aliens.
Get a little perspective on things. Do you think President Bush gets up in the morning and says, "Hmmm, who can I screw over today?"
Exactly right! Or says we are "maligning."
Nothing hidden.
President Bush is out front about it.
Source at bottom.
"When it comes time to VOTE in 2006
Some Thoughts to Consider
Considering the Non-Accomplishments in Washington, D.C. since 9-11:
No solving the Border Security issue
No solving the Illegal Immigration issue
No addressing the Islamic Threat to our Judeo-Christian Civilization
No addressing the Trade Balance issue
No addressing the Out-Sourcing of Jobs to overseas
No addressing the Pork Barrel Spending & the Fleecing of the Taxpayers
No addressing the complicated IRS Mess
No addressing the vast Voter Fraud epidemic
No addressing the abusive Judicial Confirmation Process
No Accountability for the Corrupt Manner in which CAFTA was rammed through Congress
and there are more ..........
It would good & wise to vote EVERY Politico in the U.S. Senate (who is up for re-election) and in the U.S. Congress OUT of office in 2006.
There is no way that their replacements, however inexperienced or from whatever party could possibly do worse than the current malfeasant incompetents who talk much during media face-time, dress nice and are well-coiffured -- yet, do Nothing.
It would do the Nation good to have a 2-year flush and remind those elected just who they work for. The few good guys won't mind and they will get back in.
Just imagine the chaos among the myriad lobbyists, influence peddlers, big media mouthpieces, big business, big political funders, political hacks, political commentators, agenda-based think tanks, and all manner of organizations whose sole purpose is to NOT represent the American citizenry.
Absent some radical, if not revolutionary purge, the current politicos and their supporting parasites will just continue destroying our country,
So, just start considering voting the current Senator or Congressman OUT during the Primary or General Election.
It's not as if we don't have 50 State Governments who can't take care of their states without D.C. political meddling.
Ask yourself:
Just what has my Senator or Congressman done for me or my family or business lately? Try to list their accomplishments.... Write down the accomplishments.
Just Think About It. You have many months to mull it over.
But, Things Must Change."
http://azanderson.org/anderson_report_politiical_issues_voting_in_20.htm
well, you do know, vegetables are incapable of actual memories or a grasp of actual facts; as are those with anti-America agendas. : )
Mrs. Schlafly is on the mark, as usual. Too bad she doesn't have the president's ear.
then what's holding them back?
agreed; she's been on the mark for so long, one could almost consider her a prophet...but she is dismissed as a "fringe element." It's a shame, because most often, she really does have a strong grasp of many things.
Did you see her CFR article?
They don't even have to come up with a rightist. Hillary is their man, and she will win paying only modest lip service to this issue because most of the GOP will not be able to rid themselves of the Bush "amnesty" stink.
Agree on the border issue; you are off the mark on everything else, especially the war in Iraq. Evidently, you have not heard the voices of the heroes who have returned from that theater, and are willing to go back.
They are so proud of their accomplishments. I believe the president has the right vision for this area of the world.
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