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Bush-Schwarzenegger Try Quarterback Sneak Again: Illegal Aliens Work 18 Months & Get Social Security Benefits - You Have To Work 10 Years For Same Thing! - RI10
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Again: Illegal Aliens
Work 18 Months & Get
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You Have To Work 10
Years For Same Thing! -
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LOU DOBBS TONIGHT
President Bush to Address Nation on Iraq Wednesday; Democrats Threatening to Withhold Funding for War; Battle Plan
Aired January 8, 2007 - 18:00 ET
DOBBS: Just three days after calling for a new era of post- partisanship in California politics, Governor Schwarzenegger has angered members of his own party and the public, proposing new benefits for illegal aliens. The governor proposing mandatory state subsidized state health insurance for all state residents.
Tabacco: You Californians out there: Do you still think Arnold should be allowed to run for president? How about governor of California? If Arnold really wanted to help the people of California, he would be a Democrat.
Please note: Tabacco does NOT imply that ALL DEMOCRATS ARE GOOD – FAR FROM IT. I am saying that between the 2 major political parties, ONLY DEMOCRATS ARE GOOD! See; there is a difference!
Peter Viles reports.
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PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing that everyone in his state, including those here illegally, be required to purchase health insurance.
GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIFORNIA: If you can't afford it, the state will help you buy it, but you must be insured.
VILES: He argues that since the state is obligated to pay for emergency room treatment for illegal aliens, it makes financial sense to force them to buy subsidized health insurance.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Our question, the decisions that our team has made, was not should we treat them or not treat them. The question really is, "How can we treat them in the most cost-effective way?" We are trying to be realistic here and not live in denial.
Tabacco: SOPHISTRY! - "not should we treat them or not treat them".
Who removed this question from the Agenda and why? Glossing over an unresolved question is a Sophist trick that goes back to the days of Socrates. Sophists pretend the question is irrelevant, and then go on to pursue their own Agenda. It is clever; but it's still Sophistry. Californians let Arnold get away with this piece of chicanery. Every Californian - make that every American - MUST STUDY SOCRATES NOW!
VILES: Republicans immediately criticized the governor's plan, saying it would attract and reward illegal aliens.
MICHAEL VILLINES, CALIF. STATE ASSEMBLY: If they break the law coming into our country, they will get benefits that they wouldn't receive if they played by the rules. And that kind of message is a very dangerous message for a nation that supposedly believes in the rule of law to send anywhere around the world, especially in our own neighborhoods.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This would be a further validation of saying illegal behavior is OK, and I don't think that's where Californians want to go. Californians have been very clear about that.
VILES: Schwarzenegger estimates the cost of subsidizing insurance for illegal aliens at roughly $2.5 billion a year. California already spends heavily on healthcare for illegals.
In 2004, an estimated 43 percent of all births covered by the state's Medi-Cal program were to illegal aliens. The cost of those 105,000 deliveries was $400 million.
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VILES: And Lou, this is a national problem, to be sure. At Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, the hospital where President Kennedy died, it's now estimated 75 percent of the babies born at that hospital are born to illegal aliens -- Lou.
DOBBS: Seventy-five percent.
VILES: And this is one of the biggest maternity wards in the United States, 16,000 babies born there every year, 12,000 of them born to illegals.
DOBBS: Now, correct me if I'm wrong in this, Pete, but the very generous Governor Schwarzenegger, who now describes himself something as a centrist, even as he proposes something this radical, which is -- you've got to love about California and really American politics -- 43 percent of Medicaid is going to -- say that again -- in California.
VILES: Forty-three percent of the births in this state that are subsidized by the state's health program, 43 percent are to illegal aliens. And that number has been growing a little bit in the past couple of years.
DOBBS: It's remarkable. The reaction to this, I suppose, I think it's fair to say, is only beginning to set in.
Peter Viles, thank you very much, reporting from Los Angeles.
That brings us to the subject of our poll tonight. Do you believe the United States should provide taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal aliens? Yes or no?
Please cast your vote at loudobbs.com. We'll have the results here upcoming.
Toys 'r' Us tonight says it will give a $25,000 prize to the parents of a newborn baby. The prize, part of the store's New Year baby contest.
Now, originally, Toys 'r' Us said it would not give the mother the prize because she is an illegal alien from China. A firestorm of criticism apparently erupted from Chinese illegal immigrant groups and some elected officials in New York who support those illegal immigrant groups, and Toys 'r' Us has reversed its decision.
An estimated 300,000 babies are born to illegal aliens in this country each and every year. And as you just heard Peter Viles report from California, at no small expense to taxpayers.
A Dallas-based pizza chain has decided that the U.S. dollar is no longer the only currency it will accept at its stores. In Texas, starting today, Pizza Patron customers will pay for their pizza in pesos.
Pesos at Pizza Patron. It's got a ring to it.
A spokesman for Pizza Patron told us the company caters to the Hispanic community and many of their customers visit Mexico, frequently, they say. And they have a few extra pesos in their pockets. So this is the way to serve those customers who frequent Mexico and keep a few pesos. The company's trying out the peso plan. If I get one more "P" into this, I will have to apologize for another two months. The chain operates in Texas, Arizona, California, Colorado and Nevada. And if we spent much time, we could think about what all of those states have in common.
Thousands of Mexican federal troops tonight are in Tijuana. They're there to crack down on violent drug gang violence.
The forces were ordered to Tijuana by Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderon. The drug gangs operated in and around Tijuana, smuggling illegal drugs into the United States, responsible for much of the violence in the border region.
Casey Wian has our report.
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CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Mexican federal troops confiscating the weapons of 2,300 Tijuana police officers. Many suspected of connections to Mexican drug cartels. The crackdown by more than 3,000 Mexican soldiers as new president Felipe Calderon's effort to seize control of large parts of Mexico from ruthless drug traffickers.
GEORGE GRAYSON, COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY: Calderon is saying emphatically that there's a new sheriff in town. On the watch of his predecessor, Vicente Fox, there was a little or no concerted effort against the drug cartels. And as a result, you had any number of cities where there was virtually co-sovereignty
WIAN: The Calderon crackdown began last month in his home state of Michoacan. Nine bodies were discovered over the weekend, bound and gagged, apparent victims of drug cartels.
Near Tijuana, major highways were packed as soldiers searched for weapons and drugs. Published reports from Mexico say drug trafficking activity in the area came to a virtual standstill this weekend.
A spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol says agents are monitoring the situation. But he says it's too early to tell if Operation Tijuana has reduced the flow of drugs across the U.S. border.
Tijuana is a major American tourist destination. The U.S. State Department in September alerted Americans to the threat of drug violence in Tijuana and elsewhere in Mexico, but is noncommittal about updating that alert.
SEAN MCCORMACK, STATE DEPT. SPOKESMAN: They take a look at it with an objective eye as to the situation on the ground. And if we need to issue something (ph), we will.
WIAN: After walking off the job for a day, Tijuana police are back on patrol unarmed, responding only to nonviolent incidents. Federal troops are expected to remain in control for at least three weeks while investigators check Tijuana police weapons for links to drug violence.
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WIAN: That show of force is in sharp contrast to the U.S. military presence on the border, where, of course, last week National Guard troops retreated when they saw four armed men advancing from Mexico -- Lou.
DOBBS: That's still incredible. President Bush making much of sending 6,000 National Guardsmen to the border. It turns out he didn't sent them to the border. He sent them near the border.
Some of them got near the border, I suppose, near enough to call it on the border. But the idea of the United States National Guard retreating from this nation's borders tells you more than almost any other snapshot of an event could.
WIAN: And the Border Patrol says that those National Guard members acted just like they were supposed to act. That they're only allowed to raise their weapons and fire if they feel that their lives are directly in danger.
They're not allowed to apprehend anyone, no matter whether they be illegal aliens, drug smugglers armed, whoever they may see. They're supposed to retreat and wait for the Border Patrol to come in and help them out. This time the bad guys got away -- Lou.
DOBBS: If it were only this time, it would be nice, but as you and I both know, that is the more likely result than the exception.
WIAN: Right.
DOBBS: Casey, thank you very much.
Casey Wian.
Well, more validation tonight on something that we have been reporting here for years. A new report from the Justice Department says illegal aliens who are arrested are more than likely to be arrested again and again and again.
This report shows that some illegal aliens, in fact, are arrested as many as six times. The federal government study of 100 illegal aliens arrested in 2004 revealing that 73 of those were arrested and then released over and over again. In fact, 429 times for a variety of crimes.
Coming up next, a new free trade zone. A plan that threatens American jobs and our sovereignty, but it turns out it's precisely what President Bush's father had in mind when he put forward that vision thing.
We'll have that special report.
And a hundred hours, an ambitious agenda for Democrats. But first, they need to prepare. They're taking a day off today. We'll tell you why.
And just what was that gas-like odor that ripped Manhattan this morning? A mysterious malodorous odor. We will have the details coming up here next.
Stay with us.
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DOBBS: Tonight, a proposal for an expanded so-called free trade zone from Alaska to the tip of South America. It's a plan from the business elites, the political elites, that will cost more American jobs, cost more American sovereignty, but it would fulfill the president's father's vision.
(Tabacco: SPP/SPPNA/AAFTA/NAU-Name keeps changing to deceive public & MSM=Mainstream Media)
Bill Tucker reports.
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BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): It's not a new idea. President Bush talked about it back in 1991.
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, FMR. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It is a big idea, a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause.
TUCKER: Now former United States trade investor Robert Zoellick is talking about it again with renewed vigor. This time, a new world order with business at the helm of trade and economic policy. Advocating what he calls the Association of American Free Trade Agreements, a separate non-government entity, which would include North, Central, and South America.
ROBERT SCOTT. ECONOMIC POLICY INST.: What Zoellick is really proposing here is a stealth trade agenda. It's not a national agenda. He's proposing to set up what is essentially a private organization to try to achieve what he couldn't get done when he was the U.S. trade representative. And this is a business agenda.
TUCKER: It's an agenda that goes hand in hand with the United States, Mexico, and Canada, working quietly and behind the scenes to promote a common market with common deregulation for the benefit of multinational corporations. It's an agenda that so far has resulted in an increase in U.S. corporate profits of 45 percent, while wages of American workers have risen only 3 percent in the last five years.
ALAN TONELSON, U.S. BUSINESS & INDUSTRY COUNCIL: The main danger raised by Zelic's (ph) proposal is that the future of American international economic policy, which affects not only our nation's prosperity but its national security, will be set not by the American people and their elected representatives, but by a small corporate elite is that accountable to no one but itself.
TUCKER: Effectively surrendering the sovereignty of the United States.
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TUCKER (on camera): And as justification for trusting those who would have the authority? The argument is made that free trade promotes democracy and the welfare of the people.
But, Lou, one has to look further than China to see whether that, in fact, is true.
DOBBS: You know, talking about Zelic's proposal, it's not Zelic's proposal. It's daddy's proposal. And people better understand that they mean exactly what they're saying. It's a new world order they're trying to create. And they're trying to do so not only without approval or consent of the governing of this country, but despite the popular will. This is a straightforward assault by the elitists in this country.
And I appreciate it, Bill. Thanks very much.
Bill Tucker.
Let's take a look at some of your thoughts now.
J.M. in Texas and said, "Please explain again a citizen's voice in government. Apparently, if I were an illegal alien in need of Social security benefits I could have a voice. Possibly I could get more answers if I were a Mexican drug smuggler with a much deserved bullet in my posterior."
And Scott in Michigan: "Dear Lou, do you have the address to the Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas? My friends and I want to send directions to the Mexican nationals. They need to know he has work waiting for them, but if he's not there to just go in and help themselves."
Dwight in South Carolina: "If government workers (city, county, state and federal) were being displaced or their salaries affected by the illegal immigrants, the problem of illegal immigration would disappear quickly."
Send us your thoughts to loudobbs.com. We'll have more of your thoughts coming up here later. Each of you whose e-mail is read here receives a copy of my book, "War on the Middle Class".
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DOBBS: Our top stories tonight: the president will announce his new strategy in Iraq in a speech to the nation Wednesday evening. Senator Gordon Smith, who met the president today, says the president will call for another 20,000 troops in Iraq.
The Democratic leadership in Congress says the president is trying to escalate the war. They say that's simply unacceptable. Some Democrats are considering withholding funds to pay for the war.
Governor Schwarzenegger in California, he wants more benefits for illegal aliens subsidized by taxpayers in his state. Governor Schwarzenegger wants all state residents, including illegal aliens, to buy state subsidized health insurance.
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DOBBS:
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Tabacco: California voters are just as gullible as poor Deep-Southern Bush-GOP supporters, who vote against their own best economic interests while attempting to hurt Blacks almost 150 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Until they elected Schwarzenegger twice, I had oodles of respect for the California electorate. That respect is now limited to Barbara Boxer. And my respect for Barbara comes with qualifications.
Tabacco: I consider myself both a funnel and a filter. I funnel information, not readily available on the Mass Media, which is ignored and/or suppressed. I filter out the irrelevancies and trivialities to save both the time and effort of my Readers and bring consternation to the enemies of Truth & Fairness! When you read Tabacco, if you don’t learn something NEW, I’ve wasted your time.
In 1981's 'Body Heat', Kathleen Turner said, "Knowledge is power".
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