Posted on 03/18/2013 1:59:13 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
Salmonella outbreaks. E. coli outbreaks. Millions of dollars in economic losses.
These are among the scenarios the Obama administration warned about last month as it claimed the sequester would force the U.S. Department of Agriculture to furlough meat inspectors.
But while the administration prepares to take that step, it continues to pursue a "partnership" with the Mexican government to "raise awareness" about food stamps among immigrants from that country. When a top Senate Republican proposed cutting off funds for that program last week -- in the form of an amendment to a budget resolution -- Democrats on the Budget Committee shot it down.
It's hard to put a firm price on the cost of the partnership, which was launched under the George W. Bush administration. But an aide to Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who has railed against the partnership for months, said it could easily be in the millions. Since 2004, the program has blossomed to include dozens of meetings and conferences and health fairs with Mexican officials -- all of which cost money, not to mention the cost to the food stamp program of new enrollees brought in as a result of this partnership.
Sessions, in a statement to FoxNews.com, said he believes the public will eventually demand an end to the program, though the Senate Budget Committee allowed it to continue in the vote last week.
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“It’s hard to put a firm price on the cost of the partnership, which was launched under the George W. Bush administration.”
Will we ever have a president again who looks out for America first?
Salmonella-walker?
America had 4.5% unemployment then, which is effectively almost zero. It probably was a good idea for America under those circumstances.
A good idea? Really? Why?
If the streets were paved with gold it would still be a stupid idea...
Food stamps for illegals? I thought they were all here working 16 hour days in the farm fields and giving their all for their adopted homeland, so why should they need food stamps? Another myth perpetrated by the illegal supporters. For every illegal who’s working in some low paying job, there are three in the cities on various types of welfare assistance and/or engaged in crime. The illegals need to be deported and the American citizens on welfare need to be told to get to work.
Because you cannot run a booming, construction-driven economy without labor. I don’t know where food stamps fit in, but there seemed to be lubrication applied to relations SOTB. Maybe Mexico was being courted as the 51st state. Certainly anyone with a little imagination can think of scenarios in which such a program doesn’t prove that GWB was anti -American.
Obviously, what’s more important to the Obama administration - the health of American citizens or getting Mexican immigrants on the dole?
The fact is that Amnesty Liberal GOP like Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, et al....will expand this program with their Illegal Alien Amnesty plans...bet on it
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