James Casebier
Chief Petty Officer
United States Navy, retired.
This is a personal web site where I express my Independent Viewpoint on a variety of topics.
Did the President lie?
September 9, 2009
Did President Obama lie when he said extending health care to all Americans who seek it would not mean insuring illegal immigrants.
Rep. Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, shouted from his seat on the Republican side of the chamber."You Lie!" to President Barack Obama during his health care speech Wednesday night before a joint session of congress.. Wilson later apologized.
Wilson's outburst came after Obama said extending health care to all Americans who seek it would not mean insuring illegal immigrants. The President responded, "That's not true".
Let explore both sides and see if we can shine some light in the dark corners of the political double talk. Then I believe the American people can figure it out for themselves.
1. The President emphatically said there would be no health insurance for illegal immigrants.
2. That statement is astounding considering the fact he met with representatives of the hispanic community this week behind closed doors at the White House. The subject immigration. When campaigning for the Presidency he needed the hispanic vote to win and to get it he promised them he would provide a path to citizenship for the 12 to 20 million illegal alien immigrants in our country. Now they want him to fulfill that promise.
3. If his amnesty plan passes and those 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants become citizens then they will be entitled to health care. How is he going to enforce the requirement that everyone must by law obtain insurance? If they say they cannot afford it or refuse to buy it what will be the penalty?
4. Once the now illegal immigrants become legal immigrants and citizens I suppose they will be reclassified as Americans who won't take the jobs they now have as illegal's and since the border fence has not been finished and we still do not have port security under control it will be no problem at all for another 12 to 20 million Mexicans to come across the border and take the jobs vacated by the now new American citizens under Obama's amnesty plan.
The democratic politicians in Washington either can't or won't think that far ahead else they don't believe the American people can. Either way democratic controlled Washington wants a single payer health care system. I call it by it's true name, socialism. They also want a path to citizenship by people who have entered this country illegally. I call that amnesty.
You be your own judge as to whose telling the truth.
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