The only conclusion to be drawn is that Big Brother's goal is to expand the government gravy train at the expense of the economic future of the country as a whole. This mentality is not motivated by compassion but by sinister raw politics; it is completely irresponsible and evil!!!
“, the Obama administration, IIRC, is the first to have the gall to openly advertise it to potential recipients over the airwaves and in print, in English and Spanish and who knows what other languages, and even in Mexico”
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Sadly, The Bush Admin. set a lot of bad precedent for Obama to follow.
[snip]Both the Spanish-language ad campaign and the U.S.-Mexico partnership were launched under the George W. Bush administration. The partnership dates back to 2004 — it was signed between then-Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman and Mexico’s foreign affairs secretary at the time. The USDA says on its website that it is meant to “educate eligible Mexican nationals living in the United States about available nutrition assistance.” To do that, Mexico distributes materials through its embassy and 50 consular offices.
The article does point out that Sen. Jeff Sessions is the only one complaining about this.
[snip]In his letter, he claimed the USDA has not responded to earlier requests for information about the U.S.-Mexico partnership and asked for a response “without delay.” He asked whether the Mexican government was distributing materials on the U.S. program in its own borders, and asked for copies of the literature.
“It is a sound principle of immigration policy that those who come to America be able to take care of themselves financially,” he wrote. “This ‘partnership’ and related consulate activity appears to assume that principle is no longer in effect.”
He said the “compassionate policy” would be to help move people “from welfare to gainful employment” rather than “pressuring” them onto food stamps.
I wish that were true. When I was a career counselor at the unemployment office, Income Maintenance Workers (usually known as “social workers” to the welfare recipients) had a quota and had to recruit people into their programs any way they could. That was during the Bush 41 and Clinton administrations.
NTL REVIEW/DAVID HANSON----The Tsarnaev brothers have offered us a teachable moment about what have become near-suicidal US immigration policies. Unless the government can assure the public that it is now enforcing immigration laws...
The Tsarnaev and...to smaller, smaller and smaller degrees...MILLIONS of others have offered us a teachable moment about what have become deliberate, pre-meditated US immigration smoke-and-mirror policies by TREASONOUS elected representatives to undermine, deceive, plunder, rape and murder law abiding American citizens.
(Why sugar-coat it David Hanson?)
TREASON - continuous, in-your-face, pre-meditated, agency-abetted, representative-enabled, ongoing...