ATG
Banned
+5,233|6951|Global Command
Universal healthcare + lack of border X tens of millions of illegal immigrants = financial death.



All the Democrat candidates ( that includes McCainhttps://i15.tinypic.com/2nlr1fl.gif IMO ) are debating about which one is going to have the best national healthcare plan the fastest.

Illegal immigrants are ALREADY have access to public services like public education according to the Supreme Court.

If national healthcare legislation is passed, there is no way to NOT cover illegal immigrants as the law stand to be written.

Schwarzenegger is a Bush republican, a Rino. I cite him as an example of why the republicans are in the midst of an epic failure as he is a ' rockstar '.

Arrrnold wrote:

"The real question here is not do we cover them or not cover them, but do we treat them in emergency rooms at three or four times the cost of a doctor's office or health clinic, or should we be treating them more efficiently and more cost-effectively," the governor said in June at a forum on political centrism. "Let us recognize the reality of the situation and deal with it practically."
Mr. Schwarzenegger noted that federal law gives hospital emergency rooms "no choice" but to treat illegal migrants. He also said he thinks that law is a wise one.

Of course the epic failure begins at the federal level; the same ass hairs that are crafting a national health care plan.



NAME ME ONE THING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS DONE RIGHT!!!! How can they be trusted with 1/5th of our economy on top of the maddening powers they have now?
Turquoise
O Canada
+1,596|6827|North Carolina
This may surprise you, but I agree with you.

I'm totally against socialized healthcare UNTIL we secure the border and deport the illegals.

You can be sure that I'll be rooting for the Republican resistance to socialized healthcare until we deal with that problem.
OrangeHound
Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...
+1,335|7072|Washington DC

ATG wrote:

NAME ME ONE THING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS DONE RIGHT!!!! How can they be trusted with 1/5th of our economy on top of the maddening powers they have now?
I like the Interstate system.  I also like the National Do Not Call registry.




But, seriously, ATG, I don't want national healthcare, but we already have "universal" healthcare ... that is, everyone who needs healthcare can get it  for free, and we are already taking care of the illegal immigrants.  National healthcare is coming, so it is just a matter of how much and when.
ATG
Banned
+5,233|6951|Global Command

OrangeHound wrote:

ATG wrote:

NAME ME ONE THING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS DONE RIGHT!!!! How can they be trusted with 1/5th of our economy on top of the maddening powers they have now?
I like the Interstate system.  I also like the National Do Not Call registry.




But, seriously, ATG, I don't want national healthcare, but we already have "universal" healthcare ... that is, everyone who needs healthcare can get it  for free, and we are already taking care of the illegal immigrants.  National healthcare is coming, so it is just a matter of how much and when.
Last year I paid 12k for coverage for my family, so I'm open to a better plan.

But...they better fucking secure the border.
S3v3N
lolwut?
+685|6941|Montucky
It'd be nice if the elected officials gave a shit about this country and less about their personal gain.
Lotta_Drool
Spit
+350|6606|Ireland
whoa, I paid 4k for my heathcare. My employer probably contributed at least 4-6K, which in actuality is part of my wage so I spent about $10,000 in heathcare insurance and $4,000 on co-pays and my son's braces.

I hope they socialize the heathcare system, border security or not.  Right now I am paying for all the illegal fucks and the Meth/gang banger got AIDS from sucking cock crowd.  If it is socialized then maybe the people who have power will be taxed high enough for it to hurt them too so they do something about it.  The rich elite control this country, I say raise taxes sky high and socialize the society because the rich elite has already threw away any chance me and my kids have for ever having the good life in this country with the billions being spent on illegals and Iraq while they ship our jobs to communist countries to profit off of something they sent our fathers off to die fighting against in Korea and Vietnam because it was supposedly "evil".

Anyone who would vote Republican or Democrat should be beaten down in the street for stupidity and maybe that is exactly what needs to happen on Nov. 7th at the voting booths.

I will vote constitution.  If for no other reason than they aren't republicans or democraps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Baldwin

Strange, but I just found out that Alan Keyes joined the Constitution Party. This is the guy I have backed in the past Republican Primaries.

"Convening its national convention in Kansas City today, the Constitution Party picked radio talk-show host Chuck Baldwin over former Ambassador Alan Keyes as its 2008 presidential candidate.

The pick was seen as something of an upset, given Keyes' higher national profile. Known for his fiery stem-winders, Keyes is a two-time GOP presidential candidate who abandoned the Republican Party this month to join the Constitution Party, which believes in limited government and is committed to ending abortion and bringing American troops home from Iraq. "
Turquoise
O Canada
+1,596|6827|North Carolina
Lotta, if you really believe in smaller government, vote Libertarian, not Constitution.   The Constitution Party is probably the biggest misnomer of any political phrase.

I don't recall the Constitution saying anything about abortion, and any true advocate of smaller government would realize that abortion should be a state issue, not a federal one.
Thorax
Banned
+77|6226
I take it your small business isn't doing so well in the midst of the current recession, you seem to be overly cynical towards the (albeit crappy) government these days.

Sunny days ahead mate.
sergeriver
Cowboy from Hell
+1,928|7180|Argentina
Universal Healthcare won't take you to financial death.  It's like Arnold said, the problem is not to cover everyone, but to pay more expensive bills to hospitals.
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6893
Contrary to popular belief, socialist health care is not the devil, or the symbol of an inferior society.

But I do agree that you really need to sort out any economical instability / immigration-eligibility problems first. It could really become a headache if it's not controlled.
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
liquix
Member
+51|6876|Peoples Republic of Portland
Regardless of your opinion on health care payment plans, when you can't go to a doctor because your employer can't afford your families health care...we'll see which system you choose to prescribe to.
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,991|7054|949

You scared? Run around like a plane about to crash.
Flecco
iPod is broken.
+1,048|7087|NT, like Mick Dundee

Amerixico. The new USA.

Lol, srs just get the government to build a 18ft concrete wall topped with razor wire along the border.
Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,991|7054|949

Flecco wrote:

Amerixico. The new USA.

Lol, srs just get the government to build a 18ft concrete wall topped with razor wire along the border.
Yeah, probably wouldn't work so good along the coasts.

ATG, we should get the nation to read your Suicide thread o.O
Deadmonkiefart
Floccinaucinihilipilificator
+177|7128
The border issue is the most immediate threat to our country, yet none of the presidential candidates plan to do anything about it.
Switch
Knee Deep In Clunge
+489|6886|Tyne & Wear, England

Flecco wrote:

just get the government to build a 18ft concrete wall topped with razor wire along the border.
Why not?  Roman England built Hadrians wall to keep out those pesky Scots.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Deadmonkiefart
Floccinaucinihilipilificator
+177|7128

Flecco wrote:

Amerixico. The new USA.

Lol, srs just get the government to build a 18ft concrete wall topped with razor wire along the border.
Contrary to popular belief, that would work very well.
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,991|7054|949

Deadmonkiefart wrote:

The border issue is the most immediate threat to our country, yet none of the presidential candidates plan to do anything about it.
I would say - the co-opting of national interests by large capital is the most immediate threat - by a long shot.
logitech487
Member
+16|6825|From The State Of Taxes
1.      $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.     
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2.      $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
  3.      $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
                             Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4.     $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
                             Verify at:  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … ldt.0.html

5.      $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
                             Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … dt.01.html
  6.  $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
                             Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … dt.01.html
  7.  30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
                             Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … dt.01.html
   8.  $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
  9.  $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … dt.01.html
10.  The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.  In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
                             Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … dt.01.html
11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.  Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
                             Verify at: Homeland Security Report:  http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
  12.  The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of  between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
                             Verify at:  http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/ … tation.pdf
  13.  In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
                             Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14.  'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ..'
                             Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. 
  Are we THAT stupid?
SealXo
Member
+309|6958
Hola welcome to mexifornia.
Well atleast they have good food.

Last edited by SealXo (2008-06-07 19:26:58)

MetaL*
Banned
+188|6580|Anaheim, Mexifornia

ATG wrote:

NAME ME ONE THING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS DONE RIGHT!!!!
Letting the illegals in lulz.
d4rkph03n1x
Member
+131|7172

I don't know the specifics, but AFAIK Australia has one of the better health systems in the world. Copy Ours!
GorillaKing798
Too legit to quit
+48|6537|Tampa, Florida

pierro wrote:

logitech487 wrote:

1.      $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.     
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2.      $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
  3.      $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
                             Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4.     $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
                             Verify at:  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … ldt.0.html

5.      $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
                             Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … dt.01.html
  6.  $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
                             Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … dt.01.html
  7.  30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
                             Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … dt.01.html
   8.  $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
  9.  $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … dt.01.html
10.  The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.  In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
                             Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … dt.01.html
11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.  Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
                             Verify at: Homeland Security Report:  http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
  12.  The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of  between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
                             Verify at:  http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/ … tation.pdf
  13.  In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
                             Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14.  'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ..'
                             Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. 
  Are we THAT stupid?
-Links 4, 8, 12, 14 don’t work
-Half your sources are Lou Dobbes (we know how reliable he is)

-Your own source (http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html) says that illegal aliens only cost us $10 billion a year (less than $35 each) or less than 1/40th of the interest we pay annualy on the national debt
-It also said that if amnesty was given...it would coust us $29 billion a year (less than $100 each) or less than 1/10th of annual superfluous medical "processing fees"

-So to answer your question: "No, we are not that stupid"

Also to all the secure the border freaks out there...over half of illegal immigrants don't illegally cross a border but overstay their VISA

*Calculations are done with the assumption that the US has a population of 300 000 000
Sources:
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
http://www.canadians.org/publications/C … icare.html
http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
http://www.federalbudget.com/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198298,00.html
What are you saying? Immigrants are bad, but not really that bad? And regardless of how they are getting here they are still here illegally.

Providing them amnesty and health care will triple the amount of illegals coming in, so if you think it's not so bad now, you wait until these plans go into action...
Phrozenbot
Member
+632|7038|do not disturb

Bankruptcy + printing your way out = financial death.

https://www.shadowstats.com/imgs/2008/hyper/hyper-7.gif

'Merica
Turquoise
O Canada
+1,596|6827|North Carolina

pierro wrote:

GorillaKing798 wrote:

What are you saying? Immigrants are bad, but not really that bad? And regardless of how they are getting here they are still here illegally.
-The point about how they got there was addressing those that wanted to build a wall
-You are correct, I am saying they are bad but not that bad …the OP basically said it would destroy the country

GorillaKing798 wrote:

Providing them amnesty and health care will triple the amount of illegals coming in, so if you think it's not so bad now, you wait until these plans go into action...
-You are correct, it would triple the costs and above I quoted the study which said that providing amnesty would indeed triple the costs of providing for illegal immigrants meaning illegal immigration costs the average citizen less than $100 a year (that won’t destroy the country) which compared to the other factors I listed above (did I mention the Iraq war will cost me $5000) is pretty negligible and not a major issue

-Overall my problem with those talking about illegal immigration is that they think it will destroy our country…but even if you allow for amnesty that means illegal immigration will only cost us 0.2% of our GDP (29 billion/13.84 trillion)…I guarantee that far more then 1/500th of economic discussions touch on illegal immigration
Those are interesting points, but do you really want to set the precedent of, "Come on in, we don't care if you break our laws and burden our system" ?

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