Posted on 09/18/2009 4:40:57 AM PDT by VU4G10
President Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage.
He also staked out a position that anyone in the country legally should be covered - a major break with the 1996 welfare reform bill, which limited most federal public assistance programs only to citizens and longtime immigrants.
"Even though I do not believe we can extend coverage to those who are here illegally, I also don't simply believe we can simply ignore the fact that our immigration system is broken," Mr. Obama said Wednesday evening in a speech..
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Obama’s slippery with the truth - in short - he lies.
Its not so bad as all that. The dems are running down the ‘Im completely tone deaf’ path right now. Every big initiative has gone over like a lead balloon w/ the American people. Health care is a non-starter, cap&trade s a non-starter, abortion is a non-starter and ‘immigration reform’ will be a non-starter. I think is OK to keep them running in circles trying to get their agenda to nowhere passed. They could ram-rod the entire mess thru but they’d never hold office again for several generations. I would like to say though this isn’t completely a dem fiasco. The Maverick and his troupe should be put out as well. They’re just as worthless, may be much more.
I am tired of hearing slimy politicians blame the USA for the criminal invasion by illegal aliens.
The problem is not that immigration system is broken.
The problem is that the politicians in both parties are crooked.
Yup...Wilson was right. YOU LIE!
12 million? What, have we gone back to the ‘90s?
“President Obama said this week that his health care plan won’t cover illegal immigrants, but argued that’s all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage.”
You think the 2 million march on D.C. was a problem, Soetero? If you try this, we will march, and STAY!
That is a great idea for a book!
The Barack Obama Cookbook
“Recipe for Bankruptcy”
“Recipe for Misery”
“Recipe for Civil Unrest”
“Recipe for Racial Strife”
etc.....etc.....etc....
“He is insane with power.”
HE IS A SPOILED ROTTEN, AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION SNOT NOSED PUNK FROM CHICAGO. NOTHING MORE.
Many specialists have said they will quit, or leave the country. It would be a disaster.
Hey we need the labor here in northern California. Gotta have someone tear down all of the empty factories, such as the GM-Toyota plant in Fremont, and take care of the lawns on all of the bank owned houses. Don’t tell me Obama doesn’t have an economic plan. Any way it’s not 12 million illegals by the time they bring in their immediate family members under the family unification programs it will be 60 million new people looking for publicly funded health care.
That idiot has to go.
Joe was right.
While I don’t disagree one bit that Obama is dangerous, it’s not because of Obama himself. He’s shadowed by highly qualified, highly intelligent, extremely wealthy players with a big agenda.
Obama himself, though, is a narcissistic moron. Narcissists, by their very nature, are usually well-spoken and personable — and often highly intelligent — but are also very egocentric, pedantic individuals with a penchant for lying. They are typically lazy and unaccomplished, propped up by those who can easily take advantage of their abilities.
Now, I’m not saying he’s not an intellectual, but — IMHO — he’s not the wizard behind the curtain.
Milton Friedman one said ‘You can have a welfare state or you can have open borders, but you can not have a welfare state and open borders’.
That's OK. The working, tax paying Americans can pay the entire worlds health care bill (and also their rent, utilities, food, clothing, educaton, legal, entertainment....). Why not? It's not like democrats would have to do anything to help. They'll be feeding right along with all the others.
"How's that hope and change working out for you now?"
The size and scope of the organizational network behind Obama is truly enormous, and it commands incredible resources. But lest people misunderstand, this is not a "conspiracy". The network instead exists entirely in the open, with the complicity of a compliant news media and with the full support of the Washington institutions over which '60s-era radicals have spent more than forty years gaining control.
Their moment has now come, and what they have planned and are now executing is a kind of quiet coup d'état, in which the "leader" is popularly elected, but possessed of a tacit understanding of a much greater mission he dared not present to the voters for their approval.
In that respect, Obama does know precisely what he is doing - and on who's behalf.
This is what Joe Wilson and the rest of here at FR have always known.
That's what the left does. They get their radical activists like Moveon, ACORN, and friends to overwhelm the systems and create chaos. Then, the Marxists come in as the "saviors" to fix the very thing they set out to destroy.
If a system is broken by the left wing radicals, it's up to the American people to put in back into the hands of the people - not back into the hands of those who destroyed it in the first place
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