The McCain Double Talk Express

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Hillary Clinton on Immigration during the debate, I hope she was kidding

I listened to the Demoratic Debate on Tuesday Night. As Hilary began to talk about Immigration as I was simply shocked. I felt that she must be kidding, but no laughs came. I guess Hillary is just that out of touch with the rest of America.

She started with her rant by saying those that harbored and aided Illegal Aliens were doing nothing wrong. She believes that those help these people as they commit their crime are just good samartians. Excuse me, If a poor person holds up a bank and I help hide them I sure am going to go to jail for aiding a criminal, what the difference.

Next she tells the crowd that it is our responsibility to help the illegals learn English. Actually it is not. If people want to come to America they can learn English all on their own. In all generations passed we expected Immigrants to learn English they were put in the same classrooms as any other kid and they picked up English and then they taught thier parents. We most certainly should not develop special programs to assist those that have willingly broken the law.

These statments just prove how out of touch Hillary Clinton and her Pro-Illegal Immigrant crowd is with mainstream of America.

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Break the Union save the Company

The case of the GM strike brought some issues up for me that I have been working through for the past few days. Now the GM has put its strike to bed lets look at the issue. Health Care has now been shifted from GM to the Union. This will allow GM to do what it does best making cars not being the largest health care provider in America. They also got this without having to lock in where their plants are located in the future.

Before everyone jumps in bashing me for supporting job exporatation that is not what I am saying. Take the case of Caterpillar. In the 1980s they were losing around a billion dollars a month. They has battles with the UAW in the 1980s and early 90s when facing these losses they laid off employees. In the 1990s Caterpillar finally took a stand and locked out workers and hired replacement workers. They then lessed the impact of unions on their company and opened factories in right to work states. This has returned the company to profitablility and have increased their workforce on average 4% a year. These workers are well paid and are happy to do the job in these southern right to work states.

The car companies should learn from Caterpillar and focus new plants not abroad but in southern states where they can gain non-union profitablilty and the ability to make sucess. Many of these states are trying to land such plants with favorable tax benefits. The other lesson that should be taken away jobs that make people money and have sucess are not always union jobs.

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House Does not have Veto proof majority on SCHIP and Rangel admits what it is really about.

The House passed SCHIP last night but they do not have enough votes to overide a Presidential Veto. Rep. Charles Rangel admitted druing the debate what it was all about Socialized Medicine and expansion of a government run program and they would use the kids for political cover.



"It hardly matters that the expansion would be expensive or a step toward socialized health care, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said during the House debate. When lawmakers go home, he said, "the question is, Were you with the kids or were you not?""



It is time we tell congress to reauthorize the currently great SCHIP program and not hold our kids hostage for an attempt for Socialized Medicine.



http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-childrens-health,0,2312672.story

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Obama and Edwards want to change Social Security from a contribution based Insurance system to wealth redistribution system

Presidential Cantidate Barrack Obama today proposed a similar plan to what John Edwards has mentioned to change Social Security. Social Security was set up as a contribution based insurance system to make sure people could live if they lived extremly long lives or became disabled. It was designed as a voluntary system that people could join to gain security. Over time it was shifted to a mandatory system, but they maintained the contribution based system that promises you get back most of what you put in. Now, Obama and Edwards want to change that. They think that those making over 97,000 a year should now be forced to pay payroll taxes on the amount over 97,000. This in fact changes the system form a contribution based system to a new method of wealth distribution. While it seems nice to make others pay it is a further encroachment of our Federal Government, and a step towards the socialization of America. These were not the principles that our country was founded on. We need to look back and decide what America really needs and it is not a method to tax our way to sucess. We must look for creative solutions to fix our problems and make our society better but increased taxes and socilaization is not that path.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3638710&page=1

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Bush Prepared to veto SCHIP, will derail federal power grab

President Bush is prepared to veto the State Childrens Health Insurance Program reauthorization. This is a good move for America. The Program was designed to give low-income children the health insurance they could not afford. This program has been widely successful. Now Congress has seen its reauthorization to move the country more towards socialized medicine and wants to expand SCHIP to a larger portion of the population. This bill also takes away a lot of the state choices and puts them under federal control. Congress also waited until the program was just about to expire to send the bill to the President. They have essentially help the children of America hostage in order to give more federal control to health care. We should be proud as Americans that President Bush is willing to stand up for what is right and for the constition and veto this bad bill and send it back to congress to reauthorize a good program not try to expand their power.


http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bush-democrats-prepare-for-schip-battle-2007-09-22.html

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Education Reform by Edwards? Pre-K, Shouldn't we get K-12 right first

John Edwards made his "education reform" proposal. I find it hardly to be any kind of reform. He wants to create a universal Pre-K program funded and run by the federal goverment. Not only is this a blatant unconsitutional federal grab, but it also does nothing to fix an already broken K-12 system. This with the Edwards proposal you get no reform just more tax and spend and increase in the size of the government for the sake of government growth.
He also proposes to increase teacher pay in lower income areas. This will probably provide some benefit. But it is a band aid for a gushing wound. k-12 is broken not just in lower income areas but all areas. I expected more from a "reform" proposal and I think it just proves Edwards is not ready to lead.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070922/D8RQ6SHO0.html

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