Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Joe Wilson Voted for Illegal coverage!
On Wednesday night, Rep. Joe Wilson [R, SC-2], shouted “You lie!” at President Obama when he said that the healthcare bill would not cover illegal immigrants. “The supporters of the government takeover of healthcare and liberals who want to give healthcare to illegals are using my opposition as an excuse to distract from the critical questions being raised about this poorly conceived plan,” Wilson said the next day in a campaign fundraising video.
However, in 2003, Wilson voted to provide federal funds for illegal immigrants’ healthcare. The vote came on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, which contained Sec. 1011 authorizing $250,000 annually between 2003 and 2008 for government reimbursements to hospitals who provide treatment for uninsured illegal immigrants. The program has been extended through 2009 and there is currently a bipartisan bill in Congress to make it permanent.
Hospitals have a legal obligation to treat everyone who comes in seeking care, regardless of citizenship status, insurance or other characteristics. This means that hospitals treat millions of people every year who don’t have the means to pay. Obviously, this drives up the nation’s healthcare costs overall. Section 1011 helps cushion the costs for hospitals, but it’s not nearly enough to cover the actual costs in most areas.
To be fair, Section 1011 is just a small part of a much larger bill that contained many Republican priorities. Still, Wilson’s protest against the current healthcare reform proposal giving coverage to illegal immigrants (which is false), is in direct contradiction to his 2003 vote. Allowing illegal immigrants to purchase unsubsidized healthcare through the Exchange that would be set up under the current proposal wouldn’t cost taxpayers a cent, and it would be a step towards fixing the problem that Section 1011 was designed to throw federal money at.
Here are a few more links on Wilson and the healthcare reform bill:
Wilson’s OpenCongress profile
Wilson’s OpenCongress Wiki page
The House healthcare bill
The line in the bill blocking subsidies for illegal immigrants
The healthcare bill’s tax increases
5 major lies about the healthcare bill debunked
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Support for Afghan war at all-time low
By Paul Steinhauser
CNN Deputy Political Director
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Support for the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, according to a new national poll.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Tuesday morning indicates that 39 percent of Americans favor the war in Afghanistan, with 58 percent opposed to the mission.
Support is down from 53 percent in April, marking the lowest level since the start of the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan soon after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The poll suggests that 23 percent of Democrats support the war. That number rises to 39 percent for independents and 62 percent for Republicans.
"Most of the recent erosion in support has come from within the GOP," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director. "Unlike Democrats and independents, Republicans still favor the war, but their support has slipped eight points in just two weeks."
How does Afghanistan compares with Iraq?
"The Afghan war is almost as unpopular as the Iraq war has been for the past four years," Holland said, noting that support for the war in Iraq first dropped to 39 percent in June 2005 and has generally remained in the low to mid-30s since.
The poll's release comes after the two deadliest months for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. In August, 48 U.S. troops were killed in the fighting, surpassing the previous high of 45 the month before.
President Obama has called Afghanistan a "war of necessity" and has placed great emphasis on defeating the Taliban and al Qaeda militants operating there and in Pakistan.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to approve sending thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan to deal with the growing threat from roadside bombs, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said last week.
Gates has concluded there is not enough manpower or equipment in Afghanistan to protect U.S. troops from such bombs, Morrell said. Watch U.S. senators on the next U.S. moves in Afghanistan »
The CNN/Opinion Research poll was conducted Friday through Sunday, with 1,012 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
CNN Deputy Political Director
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Support for the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, according to a new national poll.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Tuesday morning indicates that 39 percent of Americans favor the war in Afghanistan, with 58 percent opposed to the mission.
Support is down from 53 percent in April, marking the lowest level since the start of the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan soon after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The poll suggests that 23 percent of Democrats support the war. That number rises to 39 percent for independents and 62 percent for Republicans.
"Most of the recent erosion in support has come from within the GOP," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director. "Unlike Democrats and independents, Republicans still favor the war, but their support has slipped eight points in just two weeks."
How does Afghanistan compares with Iraq?
"The Afghan war is almost as unpopular as the Iraq war has been for the past four years," Holland said, noting that support for the war in Iraq first dropped to 39 percent in June 2005 and has generally remained in the low to mid-30s since.
The poll's release comes after the two deadliest months for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. In August, 48 U.S. troops were killed in the fighting, surpassing the previous high of 45 the month before.
President Obama has called Afghanistan a "war of necessity" and has placed great emphasis on defeating the Taliban and al Qaeda militants operating there and in Pakistan.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to approve sending thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan to deal with the growing threat from roadside bombs, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said last week.
Gates has concluded there is not enough manpower or equipment in Afghanistan to protect U.S. troops from such bombs, Morrell said. Watch U.S. senators on the next U.S. moves in Afghanistan »
The CNN/Opinion Research poll was conducted Friday through Sunday, with 1,012 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Drake Conspiracy?
I read this article on allhiphop and thought I would share:
By hexmurda
I don't hate Drake.
There, I said
it.
Don't know the dude, never met him. I think he's a talented
cat, rappin' and actin' and sangin' and all that.
He's even got
the only record spinnin' on urban radio that I don't hate more than the KKK
hates Obama.
But that doesn't make him the savior of Hip-Hop.
Not by a longshot.
However, apparently some real
CEO's (not the n****as in your hood with business cards for their record label
and their car wash, with numbers scratched out) these n****as inhabit whole
floors of skyscrapers and have anointed Drake "NEXT."
I can see it
now, intra-office memos written in invisible ink, phone calls where coded
phrases like "bury the sun" are uttered, secret communiques transported by
carrier pigeon.
Clandestine meetings on park benches where
identical briefcases are exchanged. Limos pulling up to a rinky dink bodega in
Brooklyn, with the shrouded occupants going through a hidden door behind the
counter, down a secret passageway lined with platinum plaques. The passage
leading to an underground fortress, that either looks like a witches' coven or
the f***ing NORAD bunker.
They're all here.
All of
them.
Morris. Bronfman. Cohen. Rhone. Liles. Reid. Greenwald.
Iovine.
All of them.
Sitting in thrones at a huge
table carved out of an ancient oak tree, drinking from golden goblets filled
with a substance that bears an uncanny resemblance to blood.
These
are the people who make the decisions. They decide whose careers thrive and who
ends up on a f***ing milk carton in XXL.
These are the folks who
operate the proverbial "MACHINE," and they can George Bush the button whenever
they feel like it.
And they have convened for one reason, and one
reason only.
DRAKE.
Yeah, that sounds like some real
Skull and Bones bulls**t, right?
Monday, August 31, 2009
George Will calls for pull-out
George Will calls for pull-out
By: Mike Allen
August 31, 2009 04:46 PM EST
George F. Will, the elite conservative commentator, will call in his next column for U.S. ground troops to leave Afghanistan, according to publishing sources.
“[F]orces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small, potent special forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters,” Will writes in the column, scheduled for publication later this week.
President Obama ordered a total of 21,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan in February and March, and casualties have mounted as the forces began confronting the Taliban more aggressively. August saw the highest monthly death toll for the U.S. since the invasion in 2001, the second record month in a row.
Will’s prescription – in which he urges Obama to remember Bismarck’s decision to halt German forces short of Paris in 1870 - seems certain to split Republicans. He is a favorite of fiscal conservatives. The more hawkish right can be expected to attack his conclusion as foolhardy, short-sighted and naïve, potentially making the U.S. more vulnerable to terrorist attack.
The columnist’s startling recommendation surfaced on the same day that Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, sent an assessment up his chain of command recommending what he called “a revised implementation strategy.” In a statement, McChrystal also called for “commitment and resolve, and increased unity of effort.”
In the column, Will warns that any nation-building strategy could be impossible to execute given the Taliban’s ability to seemingly disappear into the rugged mountain terrain and the lack of economic development in the war-plagued nation.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates was asked Monday by Peter Cook of Bloomberg TV: “Are we winning in Afghanistan?”
“I think it's a mixed picture in Afghanistan,” Gates replied. “I think that there aren’t too many people with too rosy a view of what's going on in Afghanistan. I think there are many challenges. But I think some of the gloom and doom is somewhat overdrawn as well. … I think that there are some positive developments. But there is no question our casualties are up and there's no question we have a very tough fight in front of us, a lot of challenges.”
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July Wrap up!
What's up good people!?
I know I know I've been gone for a minute! But I'm back, there has been alot going on, I've been all over the place, and working on alot of stuff. I'm gonna be putting up a bunch of stuff over the next week recapping the month, some of the hits and misses in music and politics! Always remember that when I'm away you can always get some great updates at....
www.streetztalk.net
www.nativenotes.net
www.nahright.com
www.illseed.com
I'll leave ya'll with a quick new track off the upcoming Monkey-Mixtape by Jersey's Own F.A.M.E.
All World!
I know I know I've been gone for a minute! But I'm back, there has been alot going on, I've been all over the place, and working on alot of stuff. I'm gonna be putting up a bunch of stuff over the next week recapping the month, some of the hits and misses in music and politics! Always remember that when I'm away you can always get some great updates at....
www.streetztalk.net
www.nativenotes.net
www.nahright.com
www.illseed.com
I'll leave ya'll with a quick new track off the upcoming Monkey-Mixtape by Jersey's Own F.A.M.E.
All World!
Monday, July 6, 2009
New Ace Hood Ft. Jazmine Sullivan and Ross
Haven't followed this guy too much, but feeling the positive vibe on the track, half expected gun shots!
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