Amnesty poison pill: Vast health bill for new legals

NY Post ^ | April 15, 2010 | KRIS W. KOBACH

[Scanian]

On Saturday, Senate Major ity Leader Harry Reid told a Las Vegas audience: "We are going to pass comprehensive immigration reform" this year -- using the "comprehensive" buzzword that everyone knows means amnesty for the 10.8 million or more illegal aliens now in the country.

But that amnesty means even more than it used to -- because Democrats this year broke with long-standing precedent to ensure that, if legalized, these aliens would immediately qualify for ObamaCare's health-insurance subsidies.

Reid's remarks were just the latest in a series of pledges from Democratic leaders in Congress, as well as from President Obama, that they'll really try to pass an amnesty bill this year -- no matter how controversial.

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[browardchad]

Barely 40 percent of the American public favors the new law. Elections this fall and in 2012 will likely slash support for it in Washington; without a constituency to fight for it, it could be doomed.

And the best way to build a constituency is to extend its benefits to as many people as possible. By setting aside the public-charge doctrine and allowing newly legalized aliens to become eligible for ObamaCare immediately, the amnesty would create 10.8 million new ObamaCare constituents, dependent upon Uncle Sam for free health care.

Five years later, those constituents would be naturalized citizens, voting Democratic to keep ObamaCare in place.

This hidden time bomb in the ObamaCare law was buried deeply and with deliberation. But when it explodes, the American taxpayer will feel the blast: Adding 10.8 million largely low-income people to those covered by the health "reform" will further explode the cost of an already unaffordable measure.

Obama and his Democratic allies will likely attempt to sell amnesty to the public with claims that it costs little and has nothing to do with health care. Both claims will be false.

Who else in the Republican party, besides Lindsay Graham,  wants to counted among Obama's allies? Who else wants to get ahead of the game in supporting the financial destruction of the American middle class?

Step up to the plate, gentlemen/ladies of the Congress -- let us see your show of hands. Now.

[dalebert]

new healthcare will be servingso called minorities first..so care will be based on the color of skin...biased to start with...

[nolongerademocrat]

I don’t think Lindsay Graham wants to support Obama as much as he wants to blow him and this is his method of seduction.

[Man50D]

Please see the amnesty related announcements in the Announcement sidebar.

[WesternPacific]

..no matter how controversial.

The liberals will continue to push until "We the People" push back.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Clean your weapons, secure your ammo. The Kenyan is coming!

[Smokin' Joe]

...amnesty for the 10.8 million or more illegal aliens now in the country.

Look, it was 12 million not so many decades ago. People have been barreling across at the rate of 1,000 a day since then. A more reasonable estimate, given that those here have likely made more, is somewhere between 30 and 40 million. Leth that sink in, because...

... that amnesty means even more than it used to -- because Democrats this year broke with long-standing precedent to ensure that, if legalized, these aliens would immediately qualify for ObamaCare's health-insurance subsidies.

If we could not afford Obamacare before, we definitely can't afford it after any 'amnesty'.

Send them home.

[snowrip]

That 12 million figure came from the mid-nineties. You’re correct: the figure is easily double that now.

Vote from the rooftops.

[snowrip]

One more thing...

In another thread, it was said that the Army has been told to expect a possible outbreak of violence over the summer of 2010. It has begun to deploy a unit that will be used, among other things, to quell any outbreak of violence. Anyone want to guess what that violence might arise from?

The chess pieces are being moved into place. We can either allow ourselves to be boxed in and checkmated, or we can act.

[Travis McGee]

It's “game over” if 12-20 million illegals get voting rights and become perpetual Rat dependents.

We'll be Venezuela if that happens.

[The_Reader_David]

Another Newspeak to English glossary entry:

. . .using the "comprehensive" buzzword that everyone knows means amnesty for the 10.8 million or more illegal aliens now in the country.

For those of us who speak English, I suspect there's a comprehensive immigration reform most of us here at FR could support:

It would look something like: tougher border enforcement; tougher enforcement against hiring illegal immigrants; a guest-worker program that's completely separate from a track to citizenship, and with severe restrictions on what social benefits guest-workers and any accompanying family members qualify for (heck I'd even support an amnesty-into-guest-worker-status for folks whose only crime was sneaking into the country, no path to citizenship for them unless they go home an join the queue just like everyone else, just regularizing their presence here by making them guest-workers); institution of an immigrant-investor visa leading to permanent residency and citizenship for foreign entrepreneurs willing to come personally, with their capital, to set up shop in the U.S.; and some adjustments to regional and national quotas (cut them for countries with terror links, raise them for Europe (except Bosnia, which gets on the "cut" list), East and West, Latin America and countries in Asia not on the "cut" list). That sounds like a comprehensive immigration reform to me, but then I still speak English instead of Newspeak.

[Vaduz]

Things the democrat voter gives us.We are going to pass comprehensive immigration reform” this year.

[bitt]

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