Any one want to take this report and run down the truth on it?
It sounds so plausible and may speak to the motivation behind this and other administrations involved in this issue... a side not reported by the main stream media:
One reason why government is not bullish on expelling illegals... but wont tell us:
Heard a discussion on radio Friday that stated when Bush took office and implimented the tax cuts ...... it was based on the present and 'projected' surplus he'd inherited from the Clinton administration. Then we had 911 and other issues dominated media, national interest.... some info was obscured from the President's knowledge. (No excuses made here. All Presidents depend on their advisors and get what they get... unless and until they ask the right questions which goes deeper than the surface or importance that others tell them. Which means.... they are dependent on some knowledge and intuition or the quality and emphasis of advice presented..... and timing.)
Bush encouraged a crack down on closing the border and succeeded in getting Congress to pass a law and finance closing the border. Then he was hit with the bombshell that the surplus which he inherited from the previous administration had been manipulated (an illusion) by combining the revenu collections from SS and medicare taxes into the general funds. (Not a mere 'tapping' of the funds.) Due to limited population growth, of which, abortions and 'family planning' was about 1.9, our country was facing a serious demand on its funding of retirement for the baby boomers which it would not be able to meet. He could go public and tell all... but how would this alarm do to various progress... economically, the war on terrorism, the morale of the people.... (no doubt he received carefully crafted and calulated advice from people he trusted)? He'd tried earlier to get support from the people and the Congress to phase in a privatization of options available to people for their own retirement funding.... moving the control of funds from the ability of Congress to merge or touch to the people to control the placement and oversight. This might have worked for those young enough to benefit from more choices (and certainly shifted the responsibility for outcomes from government) while the baby boomers retirement might be managed by other ways. One way proposed was to create situations where by illegal aliens would be absorbed into the general population under an amnesty whereby they become documented, pay a price, are able to move their immediate families to join them....... and become documented subject to minimum wages, income taxes, social security payments, etc. and contribute to the labor force/growth and consumerism necessary to support the boomers retiring. This idea hasn't changed.
However, under Obama's health care there's another solution unexpressed for general public reaction, with the idea of solving the budget drain of retirement and health care: Classifying people into elderly or aged care. Yes, a panel formed within government will be deciding what is a reasonable expense for treatment and when a treatment will be limited or denied because a person will be deemed too old to be 'cost effective' or the outcome is accepted as terminal (some of which converts to 'terminal' by delays in care delivery). Those doctors who choose to treat, even without billing or because of 'private pay' will be disciplined into compliance on threat of loosing their licenses to practice, fines and/or other penalties. The number of retirees will be reduced by disease, health conditions, accidents which limit recovery due to withheld treatment, etc. considered as natural attrition as they age and encounter health crisis.
In the meantime, the borders aren't closed. 501-c3 exemptions are government given to groups representing political activism in support of both legal and illegal aliens and granting all the rights of citizenship regardless of allegiance.
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I hope to have time to research time lines and other information including the health care bill which was passed for clues or facts which dispell this story or confirms where the truth lies. I repeat it here for the interest and research of others... It just sounds too 'together' and plausible..... but the truth is not always evifdent.... nor is the lie.... Far be it from me to want to perpetuate a rumour or 'gossip', but, sometimes to find the truth.... one has to sift through a lot of stories and get the aid of others in tossing out the trash.