Posted on 11/29/2006 12:31:55 PM PST by Kimberly GG
The Bush Administration has indicated it wants doctors, clinics, and hospitals to provide flu immunizations to illegal immigrants.
In an interview with KFOX-TV, Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt was asked if the federal government has any safeguards to prevent illegal immigrants from catching the flu. Leavitt responded by saying doctors should give flu shots to "every person."..............
>>Unless you haven't noticed, we KNOW NOTHINGS, have YOU outnumbered. You may not give a crap about this country, its security, and its sovereignty, but we KNOW NOTHINGS do. Run along....isn't there some day in the life of the president thread calling your name?<<
Sadly, like cockroaches, Bushbots will always be among us.
>>...but if we can't find them, how can we give them flu shots? <<
Shhhh! You'll expose the deception.
This is a not so subtle way of getting to the larger issue of health care for anyone in the country, as a way of protecting the public from disease.
Some try to extend the public health issue into a serious discussion of full healthcare for illegals.
Agreed
It stands for "mindless nitwit."
That would have been my second guess. ;)
NO....everyone should NOT get the flu shot....it really isn't that great of a preventor....there are other things that work as well or better and don't require you be injected with unknown substances....(Unknown to your body). It's kinda like all the docs giving women premarin for menopause....it's horse urine....and now they've shown how it has caused many problems. Can't tell me chicken/egg substances can't cause problems for others, too. But, the brainwashing of the American public continues....
Where does it say the shots are free for illegals? I only see they are asking that everyone should get one.
Get your mother some Sambucol and/or some Oscillococcinum.....
Boy howdy, you are off base in SO many ways.
Johnnie.....Johnnie.....many of us have PASSPORTs!!!!!!! We could prove our citizenship in a flash.
Just follow the plan in my post #11
"Give them the shot then send them home...to Mexico."
Again, while you are not wrong about additional problems, due to illegal immigrants' all-too-frequent lack of immunizations, and I am not in favor of GWB's approach to the current immigration problem, as an IMMIGRATION problem, but beyond those facts, in the meantime (since he nor anyone in the Roman Senate is going to force illegals to leave), it is not a negative thing to, out of concern for the whole public, to help get anyone who needs a flu vaccine to get one.
While doing one good will not undo the rest of the harm left in place, by itself it is not a bad thing. Would I prefer that the cause for the additional doses of government-subsidized flu vaccine be eliminated and thus eliminating the need for them? Sure. But it is not going to happen, at least not before the next flu season (if ever).
Therefore, to not provide those doses is simply to deny reality in favor of wishful thinking that the ideal (fewer illegal immigrants) would and should exist - which we know it won't. Thus, to deny those doses would simply do more harm in a misguided attempt to satisfy our disgust at the current situation. Seems rather childish to me.
Know Nothing?
25 seats? What are YOU drinking? Not a hope in hell of the Democrats picking up 25 seats. ZERO chance of it. None. -9 posted on 11/06/2006 6:33:31 PM PST by MNJohnnie
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