@coldjoint,
coldjoint wrote:
Quote:. You just like the taste of **** it seems.
To each his own. You enjoy lying. I don't.
So you believe what you say is true and are willing to put your money where your mouth is? Or you admit that it is you that is full of **** and you won't put up any money?
@cicerone imposter,
Here's GW Bush's speech during his SOTU address.
Quote:America needs to secure our borders--and with your help, my administration is taking steps to do so. We’re increasing worksite enforcement, deploying fences and advanced technologies to stop illegal crossings. We’ve effectively ended the policy of “catch and release” at the border, and by the end of this year, we will have doubled the number of border patrol agents. Yet we also need to acknowledge that we will never fully secure our border until we create a lawful way for foreign workers to come here and support our economy. This will take pressure off the border and allow law enforcement to concentrate on those who mean us harm. We must also find a sensible and humane way to deal with people here illegally. Illegal immigration is complicated, but it can be resolved. And it must be resolved in a way that upholds both our laws and our highest ideals.
Source: 2008 State of the Union address to Congress , Jan 28, 2008
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WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused the United States on Tuesday of violating a bilateral treaty and "kidnapping" a Russian accused of hacking into U.S. retailers' computer systems to steal credit card data.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on July 5 arrested Roman Valerevich Seleznev, the son of a Russian lawmaker, for what it said were crimes carried out from 2009 to 2011.
The 30-year-old's father Valery Seleznev, a deputy in Russia's lower house, said in a statement he "intends to take all necessary steps to protect his lawful interests."
Roman Seleznev was apprehended in an airport in the Maldives, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"We consider this as the latest unfriendly move from Washington," it said in a statement on its website.
"This is not the first time the U.S. side, ignoring a bilateral treaty ... on mutual assistance in criminal matters, has gone ahead with what amounts to the kidnapping of a Russian citizen."
Seleznev was indicted in Washington state in March 2011 on charges including bank fraud, causing damage to a protected computer, obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity theft, the U.S. agency said in a statement.
The indictment said Seleznev hacked into websites ranging from those run by the Phoenix Zoo, a branch of Schlotzsky's Deli and many other small restaurants and entertainment venues around the country.
Relations between Russia and the United States are at a low ebb in Vladimir Putin's third term as president, with the former Cold War enemies divided over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine as well as on human rights, democracy and defense matters.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu and Julia Edwards; Additional reporting by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
Obamacare Drives Uninsured Rate To Lowest On Record
Source: Huffington Post
The percentage of Americans without health insurance fell to a new low in recent months, according to the results of a Gallup poll released Thursday.
Specifically, the uninsured rate fell to 13.4 percent in the second quarter of 2014. That's down from its peak of 18 percent in the third quarter of last year, and it's the lowest quarterly average that Gallup has seen since it began tracking this type of data in 2008.
The percentage of uninsured Americans has fallen steadily since the beginning of Obamacare's open enrollment period for buying insurance in October. President Obama's health law mandates that nearly all Americans either have health insurance or pay a fine.
Read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/10/uninsured-rate-gallup-new-low_n_5575196.html
THIS is why the GOP desperately wanted to kill Obamacare in its infancy.
@bobsal u1553115,
This all sounds good, but what is going to happen when the ACA fully kicks in. Right now large portions of the ACA have been delayed until after the 2016 elections. Why do you think that is?
@Baldimo,
large portions? WTF? There are not large portions delayed because the majority have health care that meets the standard.
@Baldimo,
So, he is delaying a year to see whether applicants are supposed to have insurance through their employer. That will affect very few people.
Republicans endanger US borders!
Republicans Weigh $1.5 Billion for Border Surge, Far Less than Obama Wants
Wednesday, 23 Jul 2014 04:00 PM
House Republican leaders proposed giving President Barack Obama less than half of his $3.7 billion emergency request to address an influx of migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The $1.5 billion draft plan, offered by a group of House Republicans including Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers of Kentucky, is the maximum amount Republicans said they can support and may be reduced further because members of their own party won’t accept more spending.
“That would be too much for me,” Senator Richard Shelby, the top Republican on that chamber’s Appropriations Committee, said of the Rogers proposal.
Vote Now: Should the GOP Back Obama’s $3.7 Billion Border Bill? Vote Here Now
House Republicans leaders are calling a special conference tomorrow to try to build a consensus for their bill, said Representative Mike McCaul, a Texas Republican. Support now is “unclear,” he said in an interview.
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said Congress can act only if Democrats drop their opposition to changing a 2008 law to let border agents more quickly turn children from Central America back from the U.S. border.
“What the president’s asking for is a blank check,” Boehner told reporters. “Without trying to fix the problem, I don’t know how we actually are in position to give the president any more money.”
Violence, Poverty
Many Democrats oppose changing the deportation law, which they say is meant to give children fleeing violence and poverty a chance to make a claim for asylum. Senate Democrats yesterday put forth a plan providing $2.7 billion for spending on the border crisis through December. It doesn’t include a change in the 2008 law.
More than 52,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border from Oct. 1 through June 15, about double the total in a similar period a year earlier, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Most of the children came from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
The dispute over the 2008 law, which Obama initially supported changing, is raising the chances Congress may fail to reach a compromise in the next two weeks before lawmakers are set to leave Washington for an August break.
During today’s party meeting, Boehner was noncommittal on whether he will bring the plan up for a vote, said Representative John Fleming, a Louisiana Republican.
‘Some Doubt’
“He himself expressed some doubt it could pass,” Fleming told reporters. “If Republicans move forward on this, we’re now jumping right in the middle of President Obama’s nightmare and making it ours.”
Boehner told reporters, “I do believe that the Congress should act and I’m hopeful that we will.”
Members of the Republican Study Committee, which includes more than 170 House members, met to consider Rogers’s proposal. Afterward some said they favored doing nothing or passing a symbolic resolution blaming Obama for the crisis.
“There are some compelling arguments against taking action,” Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina said.
Fleming suggested a resolution demanding that Obama cancel his 2012 executive order granting deportation deferrals for illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. He said the House shouldn’t risk passing a bill and getting “jammed” by the Senate adding provisions the House can’t support.
One-Way Flights
Some Republicans reject the plan’s price tag and say the children should be put on one-way flights back to their home countries.
“There’s no way I’ll support” it, said Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama. “To spend billions of dollars on foreign children, money that we don’t have, that we have to borrow to get, that we can’t afford to pay back, is financial insanity when you can solve the problem with as little as $20 to $30 million.”
Asked whether Democrats would support the Republican proposal, second-ranking House Democrat Steny Hoyer of Maryland told reporters, “Right now I would tell them not to expect that.” He said “there is a consensus feeling” that the child deportation law shouldn’t be changed without holding committee hearings.
Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar, who earlier offered a proposal with Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn, said he was open to considering the Republican plan.
The plan “mirrors a lot of what we’ve been saying,” Cuellar said.
Senate Proposal
In the Senate, Appropriations Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski said Democrats’ $2.7 billion proposal would fund most of what Obama sought, though only through Dec. 31. Obama asked for funds through Sept. 30, 2015.
“The total amount of the president’s request will be needed,” Mikulski of Maryland said yesterday in a statement. “However, based on a review of what is needed in calendar year 2014 to meet needs at the border, the bill reduces the president’s request by $1 billion.”
Rogers said the House plan, just 35 percent of what Obama sought, allocates far more to border security by putting National Guard troops on the border and speeding up the deportation process. Unlike the Senate measure, the money would be offset with spending cuts elsewhere in the budget.
Border Patrol
The Republican plan includes recommendations by a task force led by Representative Kay Granger of Texas, including one to open unprotected border areas, such as U.S. national parks, to Border Patrol agents.
Representative Matt Salmon, an Arizona Republican who is a member of Granger’s group, said he isn’t worried about passage. “By and large support is pretty wide and pretty deep,” he said.
If the two parties can’t overcome their differences, Congress could handle the matter the same way it has addressed other spending disputes -- through a temporary spending fix. Congress has kept the government open for much of the past few years through such temporary bills.
Republicans propose changing the child deportation law to allow Central American children to be voluntarily returned to their home country. Those who don’t voluntarily leave would be given an immigration hearing within a week.
Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, said he met with a group of House Republicans and urged them to press for language preventing the administration from granting “amnesty” to any undocumented children.
“I was encouraging House Republicans to focus on solving the problem, and the only way we can solve the problem is to eliminate any authority for President Obama to grant amnesty,” Cruz said.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said she is reviewing a draft proposal to give the Department of Homeland Security more “flexibility” to process the children more quickly without changing the law. Such legislation would be considered separately from the spending bill, she said yesterday.
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@bobsal u1553115,
The republicans only goal is to make Obama fail. That so many in this country can't see this destructive behavior is the biggest mystery of all!
The GOP are the ones who try their best to take away voting rights of Americans.
Why are so many people in support of their party? That's the 64 thousand dollar question.
It's scary; why do women and minorities continue to vote for them?
