September 30, 2009
Illegal immigrants demand free health care, then turn down free ride home. Well, isn’t that nice?
Remember last week when I brought up that article about illegals suing to get free health care? Well, as it turns out, apparently they’re refusing an all-expenses paid trip home, too:
Going back to Mexico is not an option, said the 43-year-old man, kneeling next to his wife’s wheelchair.
His wife, 45, lost her eyesight to diabetes. She also has high blood pressure. And her kidneys are failing.For years, he has taken her to a dialysis clinic attached to a public hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The facility that gave her free care plans to close Saturday.
They are illegal immigrants with no health insurance and, they say they have nowhere to go for his wife’s vast medical needs. The closing clinic offered to help return them to Mexico.
The Atlanta clinic is the latest known case of a medical institution that’s offering to send illegal immigrants who can’t afford treatment back to their native countries — a practice that critics liken to patient dumping.
Returning to the country of origin is completely voluntary, said Matt Gove, a spokesman for Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital. “We can’t make anybody do anything,” he said. “To patients who’ve expressed a need or desire to go to their home country, if we can help them, then we try.”
So, these illegals admit that they have been taking advantage of our free health care for years. Awesome! Just what America wants to hear. The hospital offered them a free trip home and they refused. What does it say about our lax immigration policy if illegals can be openly using free services paid for by American citizens and then turn down a free trip home? They should be deported, automatically. They shouldn’t have a choice in the matter. They came here illegally. It’s just that simple.
But, the article gets better a little bit later on:
The Atlanta couple, who asked to be identified only by the husband’s initials, G.L., and the wife’s, A.L., said they rejected Grady Memorial Hospital’s offer to return to Mexico because they had seen bad medical outcomes there. The woman’s mother, sister and niece died of kidney failure in the country despite receiving care, they said.
“In Mexico, dialysis does not guarantee life like it does here,” G.L. said. “Maybe they live one year. Here, people can last up to 10 years or more. … To go back to Mexico would be a death sentence.”
Dialysis replaces kidney function, mechanically cleaning the blood.
A judge ruled last week that Grady could close this week, rejecting a legal request by 36 patients who sought to keep the clinic open until they could find permanent treatment elsewhere. The hospital agreed to pay for three more months of dialysis at a different clinic, according to a court document.
The immigrant couple worry where A.L. will find consistent treatment after the Grady Dialysis Clinic closes. Without dialysis, fluids and toxins accumulate in her body, which can lead to brain damage or respiratory problems that could result in death.
On top of a wooden dresser in their studio apartment, there are rows of orange prescription drug containers: statins, lisinopril for her hypertension, furosemide for her swelling. There’s also a plastic Virgin Mary.
“As humans, we have a right to life,” said her husband, a mariachi band musician.
When the treatment ends, they will most likely have to go to emergency rooms, he said.
By federal law, hospitals must treat emergency patients regardless of citizenship or ability to pay. But emergency care is more expensive than regular care. Dialysis is a lifelong treatment and the only alternative is a transplant.
I’m sorry that Mexico sucks, but that is no excuse for her citizens to keep coming here to exploit America’s sympathies in order to get free health care. The way I see it, if Mexico sucks so badly the Mexicans have two options: 1) legally apply for citizenship and wait your turn to enter out country legally, or 2) do what you have to do to change your country from within. Look, America is having enough problems right now, without them being added to by millions of illegals draining the system.
And, I wouldn’t go arguing that “right to life” stuff in America. We have a booming abortion industry that profits from killing babies, and then profit from putting their body parts on the market for resale. Plus, you have a right to life in the sense that no one has a right to take that life, but you don’t have a right to free medical care in order to prevent your death. I know it gets confusing if you listen to the current health care debate.
Illegals should not feel comfortable enough to complete interviews with major news outlets and openly seek free health services, and they certainly shouldn’t have the option of turning down a free trip home. They should automatically be sent home once it is discovered that they are in our country illegally. Maybe if we enforced our immigration laws illegal immigrants wouldn’t be so brazen, but we all know that’s not going to happen with a pro-amnesty president. Now, can someone, please, tell me again where in the health care reform bills it states, unequivocally, that illegal immigrants will not be able to use the free services or buy into the public option and where it says what measures, exactly, need to be taken to ensure this. Oh, that provision doesn’t exist. Shocking!
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Where should “sex-offenders” live? How about six feet under dirt? Sounds good to me.
I came across this story, yesterday, while at the gym. One of CNN’s spin-off channels was talking about it. They were asking the question, “Where should sex-offenders live?”
On Monday morning, the Associated Press published a report about nine sex offenders living on state-owned land in Marietta.
By the afternoon, news organizations from CNN to the local paper came through the camp, looking to pick up the story. And all that scrutiny was making campers nervous.
“I’m very worried I’ll end up in jail because of all this attention,” Marque Miechurski, told GPB. The 30 year old continued, “CNN has been here, WSB [TV] has been here. People aren’t going to be happy.”
Now, the small group of homeless sex offenders has been ordered to move from the makeshift camp in a densely wooded area behind a suburban office park.
This could only happen in a society that cares more about showing mercy to the criminal rather than the victim. You want to know where I think child molesters and rapists should live? Six feet under. That’s where. What? Is that politically incorrect? I think people who murder people and people who ruin another person’s life by stealing their innocence as a child should be put to death. Period.
This story is clearly trying to get us to sympathize with these perverts. They are demonizing the strict laws in the state of Georgia that are in place to keep these sickos away from children. Like I said, if they were dead we wouldn’t have to worry about this. I know that supporting sex offenders is all the rage in Hollywood right now, but this makes me sick.
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Bipartisanship = Agreement to spend our money.
Republicans are the “Party of No,” until it comes time to boost their own budgets, that is:
Congress is on the verge of giving itself a bump in its annual budget — even as local governments, families and businesses across the country are tightening their belts in the worst recession in decades.
Under a House-Senate conference measure, approved by the House last week and poised for passage in the Senate on Wednesday, spending for the legislative branch will increase 5.8 percent this year, boosting Capitol Hill’s annual budget to $4.7 billion.
The measure includes a hodgepodge of new funding for lawmakers: a $500,000 pilot program for senators to send out postcards about their town hall meetings, $30,000 for receptions for foreign dignitaries and $4 million for consultants — with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell(R-Ky.) getting up to nine each and Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) getting up to three more.
There’s $15.8 million for salaries for the Senate Appropriations Committee — plus an extra $950,000 for the committee’s administrative expenses.
Funding for House office buildings will jump a staggering 128 percent, to $84 million. Some of that money will go to replace a roof at the Rayburn House Office Building, and an additional $50 million is being allocated to renovate the Cannon House Office Building.
The Architect of the Capitol will see a 17.8 percent hike to deal with infrastructure repairs, and the Government Printing Office’s revolving fund will increase a whopping 155 percent, to $12.7 million, to deal with technology upgrades and repairs, according to the conference report.
And, this is why I’m a cynic when it comes to politics and refuse to identify with either party. It doesn’t matter what letter comes after their name, it’s all about the power and the money for them and whatever will keep them in power enabling them to spend that (read: OUR) money. The only time we get bipartisanship, not that I even want bipartisanship, is when they agree to spend the money they didn’t stole from us.
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Dems making bank from financial services industry.
I just wanted to highlight this in advance of all of the attacks on Republicans for being in the pockets of the “special interest groups” when it comes time for Congress to reform the financial services industry:
Wall Street has showered nearly $11 million on the Senate since the beginning of the year, and more than 15 percent of it has gone to a single senator: Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York.
Schumer’s $1.65 million take from the financial services industry is nearly twice that of any other senator’s — and more than five times what the industry gave to any single Republican senator.
While the industry has scaled back its political spending in the wake of last year’s economic collapse, data from the Center for Responsive Politics show that it’s still investing heavily in the Senate, where it’s likely to have its best shot at stopping — or at least shaping — the crackdown on Wall Street that President Barack Obama has proposed.
And it’s clearly looking to Democrats to do it.
Of the $10.6 million the industry has given to sitting senators this year, more than $7.7 million has gone to Democrats. Schumer got his $1.65 million; his New York colleague Kirsten Gillibrand took in $886,000; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada received $814,000; Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd of Connecticut scored $603,000; Colorado freshman Michael Bennet got $401,000; and Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas— who will have a big say on the derivatives portion of regulatory reform — got $336,000.
“Democrats are holding the reins in Washington now with a Democratic-run White House and Congress,” said one financial services lobbyist. “It only makes sense that donors want to put their money into the coffers of those who are driving the agenda.”
Among Republicans, the biggest recipient of financial-industry money so far this year is Richard Shelby of Alabama. But although he’s the ranking Republican on the Banking Committee — ground zero for the regulatory reform bill in the Senate — he’s received just $313,000 from the industry this year.
It only makes sense! That’s right because in our corrupt system where politicians can all be bought legally, it does only make sense that the financial services industry would target the party in power in order to influence the final “reform” legislation that is produced. Note to the American public: This means that it will be their interests represented, not yours. And, we all know they wouldn’t waste their money if they didn’t think that it was going to work.
This isn’t to put all of the blame on Democrats. Republicans get donations, too. But, when they go to pass whatever monstrosity they label reform, I want everyone to remember whose interests will be represented and that it’s the Democrats who are being paid to favor the financial services industry and to look out for their best interests. So, when they propose legislation that hurts the people, or is just bad policy, and they try to blame those evil, greedy Republicans, we can all remember who is really in the pockets of the financial services industry: those greedy politicians, both Democrat and Republican, but mostly those Democrats!
Comments (0)September 27, 2009
Rule Five Sunday: Vanessa Marcil
Well, it’s time for some more Rule 5 action, and I feel that I have set a standard and I don’t want to disappoint.
Now, I dono’t know what you boys think, but I think that Vanessa is pretty hot.
So, I’ll leave you with this one last thought and let you decide.
September 25, 2009
Terrorists target Aaron Schock. HotMES responds: Not my baby!
Although I’m still not convinced he’s not related to Neil Patrick Harris, I don’t want terrorists to blow him up:
Rep. Aaron Schock said Friday that he was “grateful” to the FBI for thwarting a terrorist attack targeting his office in Springfield, Illinois.
“My office was notified today of the attempted terrorist attack on both the Federal Building and my Congressional Office in Springfield,” Schock said in a statement. “I am incredibly grateful to the FBI for their fine work in preventing this terrorist attack.”
The Illinois Republican’s office was reportedly the “secondary target” of Michael C. Finton, also known as “Talib Islam.”
Finton had been supplied with a van filled explosives, which were harmless, by an FBI officer posing as an al Qaeda operative. Finton reportedly then drove to the Paul Findley Federal Office Building and Courthouse, which is close to Schock’s office, and attempted to detonate the explosives with a cell phone. Finton was arrested immediately.
All right, terrorists, look, I’m sick and tired of you making my life worse. At least once a day something in my life is inconvenienced because of you, to which I always reply: Freakin’ terrorists!
You will not take the hottest (even if he does have a strong resemblance to NPH) member of the Republican Party who works on Capitol Hill (well, I haven’t really checked out the staffers, so that might not be true) from me, too. I just can’t allow it. As they say on the street: Thems fightin’ words!
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