Please join me on January 2nd, 2015, when I release: The Real Linda Vega, an article-video exclusive for The Speech A Time For Choosing. Check out the Tease:
A lot of people would like this story to go away but it won’t, nor should it. I’m excited and pleased to present, based on public, not private information, a story I have put together using nothing but PDD – Public Displays of Deception of the politician concerned and a little information a concerned citizen came forward with. The fact they want to remain anonymous shows the level of fear and the intimidation these activist groups and attorneys who got involved in the matter have created already. It is great enough to cause concern because no one should be punished for exposing fake conservatives if that is what they are doing. Not a journalist, not a citizen, not any politician. It’s time to expose the dirty secret.
Why the story matters (all no-brainers, but the reasons should be listed anyway):
Democrats have no business running for Senate or other offices in Republican primaries.
Immigration Reform is too important of an issue to be decided by or misrepresented to voters by infiltrators in our party.
Language matters. Definitions matter. Honesty and instilling confidence in voters matters. Our party platform must be clearly articulated so that voters can have confidence in the process and in elected officials. That means the word games used by these pseudo-Republican types must stop. Rinos, that means you, too. It goes without saying!
Political Organizations whose intentions are to turn not just one state, but all of America blue should be exposed and those exposing them should be supported. Don’t kill the messenger. Go after wrong-doers.
Politicians who know that this little dirty game is going on should also be exposed. That means all Senators, Congressmen, the Governor and potential presidential candidates.
Republicans in name only love to attack Conservatives, but are all too willing to condone left-leaning players. They are all complicit in corrupting our party and its message.
Our borders must be sovereign. Anyone against this is against America’s sovereignty and the Republican party platform.
Courage is the audacity to overcome fear. Keeping quiet is not going to solve the problem. The consequences of keeping silent are far worse than taking the risk to speak up. It shows that the problem is bigger than what I first imagined because of the level of fear that has been instilled in whistle-blowers. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Attorneys who HIDE behind the twisting of words to change our laws, or who work to deceive the voting public should also be exposed.
Anyone subjecting any state deliberately to more illegality (and not the loose meaning of the term that is ignored) should be exposed.
There must be a clear definition (and obvious understanding) of what amnesty is, of what Conservatism is and any congressmen and woman who is unclear or vague about it needs to hear from you. Activism starts with you and your political clarity. You get the crooked politicians you vote for and don’t expose.
YOUR SENATOR, congressmen or governor should not be extorted by groups who do NOT even tolerate Republicans or their values. I understand politics is dirty and votes are needed but not at the expense of real citizens’ livelihoods. It is time to starve the beast of the manipulation going on by the left inside the right!
Memorial dedicated to the four who were murdered in the Florida Straits.
Here are their names and a brief summary about what really happened.
And here are the thugs released who were responsible for their murder:
In his announcement last Wednesday, December 17th, President Barack Obama referred to the three men pictured above who were arrested after the shoot down (murder) of the Brothers to the Rescue pilots simply as “Cuban agents“, noting they had served more than 15 years in prison. (Talk about audacity!)
Labañino and Guerrero originally got life sentences on espionage charges, but later were re-sentenced by a court to 30 years and about 22 years, respectively… Gerardo Hernández, convicted in 2001, was serving a lifetime sentence for conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes over Cuba in 1996. All three were arrested in 1998 and were part of the so-called “Cuban Five” group — Cuban nationals (convicted in 2001) of a spy ring called “the Wasp Network” which used shortwave radios to receive direction from Cuba, including demands for information on Cuban exile groups in Florida and U.S. military activities in the Caribbean. Read more
Obama also said that as far as he knew the “plane shut down” was not a premeditated move by Castro but a “tragic circumstance.” He said he was going to “weigh in” during the “healthy debate” inside Congress. He added that his policy against the embargo was going to give the United Nations and the Red Cross more freedom to help Cubans on the island.
“I share the concerns of dissidents there and human rights activist that this is still a regime that represses its people“.
Cuban-American lawmakers have promised the relatives of The Brothers To The Rescue victims that they will do everything in their power to keep the embargo in place to pressure Cuban officials to respect human rights. Let’s see what they do.
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Left behind in all of this, the families of four men killed. They got the short end of the deal. They called Obama’s decision to release three of the members of the “Cuban Five” an insult to the U.S. justice system. Their biggest complaint was that they were not contacted by the Obama administration to prepare for the news.
“Everybody knows everyone’s phone numbers here, and any way to call, e-mail, anything, and nothing was done.”
“First, I want to say that I’m so happy that Alan Gross will be able to spend Hanukkah with his two daughters, ’cause I’ll never have that again with my father,” said Marelene Alejandre Triana, who was only 18 when her father, Armando Alejandre Jr., one of the four men on board Cessna Skymasters that had taken off from Opa-locka Airport on Feb. 24, 1996, was shot down over international waters.
“The only person that we had responsible for what happened, to be let go, it’s a slap in the face to my dad”.
For a tearful daughter Marlene Alejandre Triana, the relaxing of restrictions is especially painful because her father fought for the U.S. in Vietnam. “To me, it’s just a dishonor to my father’s memory, to every soldier that goes and does anything, that this can happen, that there’s no respect,” she said. Video here
Interesting to note that Alan Gross has a picture of Che hanging on the wall as he and fellow attorneys prepare a message shortly after his arrival:
Alan Gross, w atty Scott Gilbert & spokeswoman Jill Zuckman, prepping remarks to deliver after arriving in US…#Cubahttp://t.co/8Od6G54jc6— Stephen Crowley (@Stcrow) December 17, 2014
A tearful Miriam de la Peña said Raul Castro was the one who ordered the hit on The Brothers To The Rescue plane that her son, Mario de la Peña, was in when he died Feb. 24, 1996.
“I’d like to say that, not only do I feel that I’ve been slapped in the face by a president. I feel that the justice system of the United States of America today has suffered a big blow.”
Raul Castro with Cuban spies released by Obama.
José Basulto, the founder of Brothers to the Rescue
“Obama has elected himself as the new king of America, and he feels free to take any type of actions, even if he has to [bypass] the justice system of the United States.” Read more.
MOST INFURIATING (if it is even possible)!
Not mentioned much on my part because I am not interested in discussing matters that are divisive. It needs to be said that as a Catholic, I am beyond disappointed in the latest action of Pope Francis. There is no comparison between the visit of Pope John Paul II to Cuba in 1998 who went to bring a new breeze (literally) and spiritual renewal which resulted in a return to churches all over Cuba, and the actions of this Pope (Francis) who helped broker a politically motivated deal that never even took into consideration the victims or their families but gave comfort to a murderous regime and a deliberately anti-American interests president instead. Critics of the church may or may not use this to continue condemning the Catholic Church, but I will ignore them to be able to report the story.
Pope Francis paid for US-Cuba deal at secret Vatican meetings with Obama.
Dinesh D’SouzaDecember 19 · The schmuck: so many Cubans were tortured and shot by the #Castro duo; how generous of Obama to offer to forget about other people’s suffering. 26,835 like this.
Barbaric regimes (not just Fidel’s) will never change with the lifting of sanctions. It is a dream romanticized by fools in the media like Chuck Todd to name one of dozens if not hundreds. You cannot legislate moral political leadership or force ruthless despots to have principles. Just two days following the announcement…
2 days after Obama announced normalization of relations w/Cuba, regime rammed & sank a boat of 32 ppl fleeing island. http://t.co/6Jb3buPdFu
I have been standing with the families of the pilots who were murdered in the Brothers to the Rescue mission. They have my heart and prayers as they represent the injustice suffered by victims who have struggled not just against communism in Cuba, but misinformation and propaganda against its dissidents in the media.
Noam Chomsky: Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. (H/T David Rosenthal)
There are no limits to Fidel’s hatred for the people of Cuba. Likewise, no love by our president for Americans or a scintilla of concern for victims of political or religious persecution worldwide. None. He is one of them.
If anyone wonders why I support Sarah Palin, it is because we didn’t have anyone like her in politics to be the antidote for communism in Cuba. Without putting too much pressure on one woman, she is a treasure because of her GOODNESS and FIGHT for the right things. This is scary to despots. So I believe and I have faith that since GOOD wins in the end, we shall prevail. I don’t know how else to express how disappointing and disheartening it is for people not to APPRECIATE what they have after all the evil and malice displayed over five decades.
I like how Sarah Palin has approached this Cuba deal because it is empowering to the people there. That being said I hope and pray she knows Cubans who lost Cuba will never see it again out of conviction until the Castro brothers are gone (and even then the destruction has been so vast and permanent) and that it will remain just a remembrance of a healthy, prosperous and self-sufficient nation. It is lost and will never be the same. We who fought for her are thirsty for fighting for America. It is going to be 56 years this January 1st that the revolution started and there is no end in sight to the tyranny. I have lit my candle in solidarity for those fighting the oppression in Cuba, but Cuba is only in my heart and mind. It is time to realize FIGHTING for AMERICA is our first hope!
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From protests in Miami to Candle lighting in solidarity all over the U.S. Few were unaffected by this story as we all are now brothers and sisters fighting for a universal and God-given right: freedom. In Cuba, the Billboard is obviously for the liberation of the murderous accomplices.
Candle images by John Qualls II and Mariah May, respectively.
Update: The wife of Gerardo Hernandez became pregnant through artificial insemination and it is expected she will give birth in two weeks. What a coincidence, huh. This could go on forever… Enough.
1898: U.S. wins the Spanish-American war, forcing Spain to cede control over Cuba
1902: Cuba becomes independent but the island remains under US protection and Congress retains the right to intervene in the nation’s affairs
1934: After a coup led by Sergeant Fulgencio Batista, the U.S. relinquishes its right to intervene in Cuba and alters its tariff structure to favor Cuba’s economy
1958: The US pulls its military aid to Batista following two years of guerrilla warfare waged by leftist rebels Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
1959: Castro leads 9,000 guerrillas into Havana and deposes Batista, later meeting with then-Vice President Richard Nixon in Washington
1960: U.S. breaks off diplomatic relations with Havana and imposes a trade embargo after Castro ‘nationalizes’ all U.S. businesses operating in Cuba without any compensation
1961: Castro proclaims Cuba a communist nation and allies with the Soviet Union, shortly after the U.S. backs Cuban exiles who aimed, but failed, to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs
1961-63: The CIA draws up at least five separate plans to assassinate Castro
1962: Castro lets the Soviet Union deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba, pointed at the U.S., and the U.S. releases photos of the missile silos; the ‘Cuban missile crisis’ was resolved when the USSR dismantled the missiles in exchange for the withdrawal of American nuclear missiles from Turkey
1980: Around 125,000 Cubans in the ‘Mariel boatlift’ – a large number of them convicts released from Cuban jails – flee to the US, when Castro temporarily lifts restrictions on travel
1996: U.S. makes its trade embargo permanent after Cuba shoots down two American aircraft operated by Cuban exiles based in Miami
2001: Five Cubans are given long sentences in the U.S. for spying for the Cuban government, including one who conspired to bring down the planes in 1996
2001: The Bush administration exports food to Cuba for the first time in more than four decades, following Havana’s plea for help after Hurricane Michelle
2002: U.S. Under Secretary of State John Bolton, later America’s UN Reresentative, accuses Cuba of trying to develop biological weapons
2002: Former President Jimmy Carter tours scientific facilities in Cuba, making him the first former or current U.S. president to visit the country in more than 40 years
2003: President George W. Bush tightens Cuban travel embargo and creates the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba
2006: Fidel Castro, in failing health, hands over power to his brother Raul
2006: The U.S. sends a 10-member bipartisan delegation from Congress to Cuba, but Raul Castro refuses to meet with them
2009: Barack Obama lifts restrictions on family travel and cash transfers to Cuba by family members
2009: Alan Gross is jailed in Cuba, accused of spying for Washington just days before the New Year
2014: Gross is released in exchange for the three remaining ‘Cuban Five’ prisoners, and the Obama administration announces plans to ‘normalize’ relations with Havana
Joe Cocker at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
By Gary P Jackson
The world has lost a true music legend. Joe Cocker, of Mad Dogs and Englishmen fame, has died after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 70.
The singer who was known for his gravelly voice, and unique performing style, was born in Sheffield, England and had a career that spanned over 50 years. He was living in Colorado at his appropriately named Mad Dog Ranch with is wife of 27 years, Pam, when he passed away.
Cocker was probably best known for his rendition of the Beatles tune: With A Little Help From My Friends which he took all the way to number one on the charts in 1968. Some, including myself, feel Cocker’s version of A Little Help was better than the original Beatles recording. It was certainly the definitive version. Cocker would perform this tune at Woodstock in 1969, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Cocker is also known for his wildly successful Mad Dogs and Englishmen Tour of 1970, which visited 48 cities across the US and spawned a wonderful live album and movie of the same name.
All in all, there are some 40 Joe Cocker albums, including 22 studio albums. Along the way he recorded such greats as the Randy Newman penned You Can Leave Your Hat On, Dave Mason’s Feelin’ Alright and Leon Russell’s Delta Lady and an amazing version of She Came In Through The Bathroom Window which his great friend Paul McCartney gave him, and he managed to get out before the Beatle’s own version hit the airways! Cocker was friends with both McCartney and George Harrison, and they would often play him Beatles tunes before they recorded them.
The 1982 duet Cocker recorded with Jennifer Warnes: Up Where We Belong from An Officer And A Gentleman, hit number one and went on to earn him both a Grammy and an Academy Award in 1983. Cocker was recognized with an OBE for services to music in 2007
Like many of his day, Cocker got mixed up with drugs and alcohol and was on his way to joining Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison as a casualty of drug and alcohol abuse. In 2013 he told an interviewer: “Drugs were everywhere and I dived in head first!” He had problems with both heroin abuse, as well as excessive drinking.
In 1978, after years of abuse, with his career in shambles, and suffering deep depression, he met his future wife Pam Baker while he was staying at Jane Fonda’s ranch in Santa Barbara, California. Baker, a local summer camp director, persuaded Fonda to rent Cocker the ranch house. A huge fan of his music, it was Pam who convinced him to turn his life around, and they started dating. They were married in October of 1987.
In the 2013 interview Cocker stated:
It was Pam who helped me get myself back together. She made me think positively. I was very down on myself. She made me realize people still wanted to hear me sing, and convinced me I could escape the downward spiral.
Joe Cocker and his wife Pam in 1996 at their Colorado ranch [Mike Daines REX Features photo]
Besides doing crazy things like throwing his shoes at the audience, Cocker once said, during his drug and alcohol days, at his worse, he would be so drunk during concerts he would just sit down on the stage and stare into the crowd until they all left!
After hooking up with Pam he got clean and sober, and stayed that way.
It was in the early 1980s that we saw Cocker in Austin, Texas at a place called The Club Foot, “The Only Club Named After A Physical Affliction” as their signage and advertising propaganda proudly stated. Charlie Midnight was the opening act. Not that we cared.
Joe Cocker was awesome. The band was tight, his singing was as good as it ever got. It was a work night, with work being 100 miles north in Waco, but we stayed until the last encore. It was worth being useless the next day! Having been lucky enough to grow up during a period when many Hall of Fame legends toured, and blessed to have seen many of them perform live, that night is one that will always remain one of the best concerts among many “bests” I’ve had the privilege of seeing.
Though he lived in Colorado for decades, he was still proud of his English roots, saying:
I’ve been living in the States so long that I thought about becoming a U.S. citizen, but I’d have to renounce my allegiance to the Queen. As a proud Englishman, I don’t think I could do that.
In September of this year Billy Joel, while performing at Madison Square Garden noted that Cocker was “not very well right now” and asked that he be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Upon his death, Cocker’s agent Barrie Marshall, said Joe was “without doubt the greatest rock/soul singer ever to come out of Britain.”
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler tweeted:
WE LOVED YOU FOREVER, WE WILL MISS YOU ALWAYS…RIP JOE COCKER.
Sir Paul McCartney said he would be “forever grateful” to Cocker for turning With A Little Help From My Friends into a “soul anthem“, saying: “I knew him through the years as a good mate and I was so sad to hear that he had been ill and really sad to hear today that he had passed away. He was a great guy, a lovely guy who brought so much to the world and we’ll all miss him.”
Ringo Starr tweeted:
Goodbye and God bless to Joe Cocker from one of his friends peace and love. R😎✌️🌟💖
Edgar Berger, Chairman and Chief Executive of Sony Music Entertainment International, who signed Cocker, said he was “one of the most humble men I’ve ever met.” adding: his voice “will forever be etched in our memories.”
Joe Cocker was still performing as of 2013, and here’s video of him performing at Hammersmith Apollo in London in May:
Feelin’ Alright
Fire It Up:
Summer In The City Covering the old Lovin’ Spoonfuul classic, which he makes absolutely his own:
Of course NO tribute to Joe Cocker would be complete without:
With A Little Help From My Friends Live from Woodstock, 1969
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window With Leon Russell from the 1970 film Mad Dogs and Englishmen
You Can Leave Your Hat On a favorite of exotic dancers for decades!
Video from the movie 9 1/2 Weeks with Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke. Most definitely NOT safe for work! [nudity]
Godspeed Joe, you were one of the greats and will be sorely missed.
To quote the Righteous Brothers: “If there’s a Rock and Roll Heaven, you know they got a hell of a band!” [RIP Bill Hatfield]
Since Prime Minister Netenyahu has fired Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni for undermining Bibi, the recent poll numbers of the direction of where Israel is going suggest a major shift to the right is taking place. Early polling has begun. While Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni claim they are forming a unified center left coalition, Tzipi has not confirmed her position.
If such a merger becomes a reality, the Labor-Hatnua alliance would produce a combined 24 seats in the Knesset. So they claim. The consensus of recent polling data shows that Yesh Atid, Yisrael Beiteinu and Hatnua are bound to lose seats. In reality, the concept of a successful alliance between Herzog and Livni is non-existent.
The fighting over the 2015 budget, taxes, defense and the economy are all on the table and suitable causes for each of the parties to debate upon. However, there are members of the Knesset…
There are some truly evil machinations afloat in the Republican controlled House of Representatives.
We’ve long known that Speaker of the House John Boehner and his cronies want to give amnesty to illegal aliens. ALL illegal aliens. We knew that any tough talk coming out of the mouths of these treasonous “progressive” Republican bastards was just theater to fool those who don’t really pay attention. After one of the greatest Republican victories in modern times, Boehner almost immediately signaled he would not fight Obama in any way. Typically, Boehner and his cohorts would rather fight Conservatives, who wish to save America, rather than Obama and his democrats, who are hell-bent on destroying it!
Matthew Boyle at Big Government has a lengthy and exhaustive interview with Congressman Louie Gohmert [R-TX], a straight shooter, if there ever was one. Congressman Gohmert goes to great lengths to describe how Boehner’s henchmen took a piece of legislation [H.R. 5759] written by Congressman Ted Yoho [R-FL] co-sponsored by Gohmert, and completely changed the wording and intent of the bill in Executive Committee. Boenher actually took a very short and concise piece of legislation that reminded President Obama what he was doing was illegal, and actually changed the wording in a manner that would STRENGTHEN Obama’s position on amnesty, and other unconstitutional power grabs by the president.
In a lengthy interview on Friday afternoon, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) exposed how House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise strengthened President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty with procedural trickery former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber would envy—and they did it all in the name of pushing a bill that they told Republicans would block Obama’s executive amnesty.
What’s more is that a series of interviews and recent developments indicate that Boehner’s gambit here is placing several of his top lieutenants—including at least two committee chairmen—at political risk of serious primary challenges just a few months after newly elected Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) beat now former House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) in a Republican primary.
“I was a cosponsor of the original Yoho bill. I thought it was a very decent bill, it was very short—it was only about a page and a half—and it basically said that anything the president did in violation of current law including what he’s done with ordering work permits for people who are illegally here, it’s illegal,” Gohmert said.
Reading how this was done reminds us that liberals [no matter what political party they call home] are pure evil and will do anything and everything to further their agenda. Nothing is out of bounds to these rat-bastards, including lying to members of their own party! The Yoho bill is something Boehner intends to use as the centerpiece of his entire Continuing Resolution that will fund Obama’s agenda, including amnesty, through March of 2015.
You simply MUST read the entire Breitbart report, in context. It’s too in-depth and comprehensive to even attempt to post a few bits and pieces. Click here to read it all.
I can’t express strongly enough how evil Boehner and his co-conspirators are. The American people spoke LOUDLY in November. They gave Republicans control of the Senate, and an even larger control of the House, with the specific mission of stopping Obama dead in his tracks. Stopping amnesty and killing ObamaCare, once and for all, were the two big issues that saw the GOP take historic wins. The message couldn’t have been clearer!
As Americans we must stand up and demand that this injustice, this act of treason against the United States and her people, be dealt with. Boehner and his cohorts need to be removed from their positions of power. They are evil and corrupt. Personally, I’d love to see if criminal charges can’t be filed and indictments handed down, but I understand the reluctance to “weaponize” politics, unless the target is a Conservative, of course. At he very least, the entire House Republican leadership needs to be thrown out of power.
We don’t have much time either. Congress leaves for Christmas vacation at the end of the workweek. Boehner wants his treasonous betrayal of the American people to stand.
Again, take time to read the entire mind-blowing Breitbart exposé, and then call your Congressman and raise holy hell! Demand this bill be rescinded and a complete change of leadership, from the top down, when the new Congress is sworn in.
Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will take part in the Iowa Freedom Summit in Des Moines on Jan. 24.
The inaugural event is being held by Citizens United and Congressman Steve King. The summit will serve as a place to discuss conservative ideas, as people get ready for the upcoming Iowa Caucuses next year.
Other featured guests include Ben Carson, Newt Gingrich, Senator Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Senator Rick Santorum and others. It will be held at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines.
Here’s a flashback: Governor Palin’s powerful Restoring America speech in Indianola, Iowa on September 3, 2011 to get everyone through a cold winter’s day:
This is the speech where, among other things, Governor Palin takes on crony capitalism, in BOTH political parties.
Let the speculation for 2016 begin.
Video courtesy Ron Devito.
Above: Governor Sarah Palin hams it up with local law enforcement in Indianola, Iowa
File this under: Criminal Illegal Aliens Stealing America’s Future.
By Gary P Jackson
President Barack Obama has declared he will “shut the government down” if the Republicans refuse to fund his latest unconstitutional power grab, the granting of amnesty, and certain rights, to criminal invaders of our nation.
This is, in fact, a brilliant strategy by the despot in the Oval Office. Despite historic nationwide victories in last month’s election. Despite the American people screaming loudly “STOP OBAMA BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY,” the Republican “leadership” is still afraid of it’s own shadow! Even though it was Obama, and Harry Reid who shut down the government earlier, the Republican morons “in charge” allowed the extremist democrats, and their media partners, to blame the Republicans. Worse, instead of fighting back at the democrats, these worthless GOP crapweasels spent all of their time attacking Senator Ted Cruz and the Tea Party, thus HELPING the democrats blame Republicans!
The nationwide Republican victories in November were the greatest since 1932, when you count the Senate. Only the 2010 elections saw a bigger nationwide shake-up, with Republicans replacing democrats all over the country. If the American people are sore at Republicans for “shutting down the government,” they sure have one hell of a way of showing it!
How is the Republican “leadership” reacting to one of the largest mandates ever given a political party, a mandate to stop Obama and his democrats, at any cost? Why they’ve surrendered, of course! All of the talk from McConnell and Boehner is about making sure the government isn’t shuttered, and now we hear McConnell and his deputies refuse to even strategize with those in the Senate who DO want to stop Obama.
Now one must know by now, that the “progressives” who make up the “leadership” of the GOP WANT amnesty, not just for a few million criminal invaders, but for all of them. Tens of millions of them. Just as the democrats are owned by union thugs, the GOP “leaders” are bought and paid for by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and others who want cheap labor. Never mind illegals are one of the main reasons wages are stagnant in America. Their being here and willing to work for much less money than an American, or LEGAL immigrant, depresses wages across the board. Corrupt politicians really don’t care. Caring doesn’t pay nearly as well as servicing their cronies, who keep them in office.
So while you’ll see Boehner, McConnell, and their boys, talking tough, they have no intention of actually doing anything about Obama’s illegal, and immoral, power-grab, or stopping the flow of criminal invaders from around the world.
Which brings us to a cold, hard reality. Between our debt, which is now over $18 TRILLION [and will reach $22 TRILLION by January 2017] and liabilities that equal roughly $100 TRILLION, we are on the hook for money money than even exists. In other words, there isn’t enough money in the entire world to cover our debt and liabilities! Let that sink in a minute, before continuing.
So …. what’s another $2 TRILLION in the grand scheme of things?
Caroline May at Big Governmentreports on the findings of Senior Research Fellow Robert Rector, of the Heritage Foundation:
“The net cost — which is total benefits minus total benefits paid in — of the amnesty recipients I estimate will be around $2 trillion over the course of their lifetime,” Rector explained in an interview with Breitbart News Monday. He added that the calculation is based on the assumption that 4 million undocumented immigrants will participate and they will live, on average, 50 years.
According to Rector — who has published extensively on welfare, poverty, and immigration — the cost has two components: The first is the potential to access Social Security and Medicare, given amnestied undocumented immigrants’ ability to obtain work permits and Social Security Numbers.
“What [Obama] is doing is he is putting these 4 million people — who on average have a 10th grade education — into the Social Security and Medicare programs,” Rector said. He used much of the same methodology he incorporated in his May 2013 study on the cost of amnesty to reach his conclusions.
With the expected earnings for an individual with that level of education, he explained that the amnestied immigrants will take vastly more out than they will contribute to those programs.
“Given their expected earnings, from someone that has a 10th grade education, they will draw about three dollars worth of benefits out of those programs over their lifetimes for every dollar they put into them. But the overall cost in outlays will be around a trillion dollars for those programs alone,” Rector explained.
The second component of Rector’s analysis looked at means-tested welfare programs.
While undocumented immigrants are not eligible for welfare dollars, Rector says he expects that within about a dozen years either through legislation or executive action the amnestied immigrants will be able to access welfare programs.
As a stop-gap — should there be no legislation or executive action granting the amnestied illegal immigrants welfare access — Rector noted that once the citizen children of amnestied immigrants hit age 21 they could be able to petition to have their parents obtain green cards without leaving the country.
“After 5 years with a green card status they are eligible for all the welfare programs,” he added.
Once the amnestied undocumented immigrants are able to access welfare, he argued, that will be another trillion dollars in means-tested welfare over the course of their lifetime — on top of the trillion dollars in Social Security and Medicare.
“Even if they are waiting 10 or 12 years to get access to these programs, that is still a trillion dollar cost once they begin to get into them,” Rector said.
The Heritage expert explained that on average in the U.S., households headed by an individual without a high school diploma take in about $50,000 in federal, state, and local government benefits.
“The bottom line to understand this is you are taking 4 million people with a 10th grade education and giving them access to the largest entitlement and welfare system in the globe,” he said. Rector added that his findings are expected to be published at the Heritage Foundation in the coming days.
You should read the 2013 report by Rector and Jason Richwine. It goes into great detail of how the dollar figures are reached.
For the deniers in the bunch, one should note Rector has been very consistent in his findings. In June of 2007, when President Bush, and Congress were chomping at the bit to give amnesty to these criminal invaders, before the American people rose up and said “HELL NO,” Rector published a similar study that reckoned amnesty for illegals would cost a minimum of $2.6 TRILLION. You’ll note the numbers are a little different, but so are the demographics of the illegals he used to compute his findings. The 2007 report is even more detailed, and mind-blowing.
Of course, we already know the number of criminal invaders who will be granted amnesty under Obama’s unconstitutional action will be greater than we are now being told. We also know that, by either executive fiat, or court orders, from resulting lawsuits that are sure to come, and soon, all of these illegals will be given full access to all welfare and other benefits American taxpayers toil and sweat for, to provide for other AMERICANS.
For those of you who have read, and understand Cloward-Piven, none of this should come as a surprise. Obama and his democrats mean to destroy America from within. Sadly, the Republicans are willing co-conspirators in all of this.
I suggest readers melt the phone-lines on Capitol Hill. Raise hell, my friends, raise hell!
You can find contact numbers for your Senators and Members of Congress by clicking on Senate.Gov and House.Gov. If you have trouble reaching your members of Congress, the mains switchboard number at the Capitol Building is (202) 224-3121 or toll free 1-800-839-5276.
We’ve called for Obama’s impeachment and removal from office. If you agree, tell you representatives in Congress, while you are bending their ears, to get it done!
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A Time For Choosing 
