WHAT COUNTRIES BAN BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP?

August 10th, 2010

November 2, 2007
Revised August 10, 2010

 By Elois Zeanah

How many developed  nations give birthright citizenship to illegal aliens and tourists?  Only the United States and Canada!  Most countries ban birthright citizenship because of security threats and because of unbearable costs which take invaluable resources and burden federal, state and local budgets and taxpayers.  

U.S. Representative Nathan Deal of Georgia, who introduced H.R. 1868 to ban automatic birthright citizenship, stated that 123 countries do not.  A sampling of these countries follows: 

Countries that Grant Automatic Birthright Citizenship 

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Cameroon, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Spain, United States, and Venezuela. 

Countries that do NOT Grant Automatic Birthright Citizenship 

Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Columbia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Kuwait, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and Zaire.

H.R. 1868, The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009 was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in April to clarify the language/intent of “citizen” in the 14th Amendment to join other countries and stop the abuse of immigrants (illegal aliens and visitors on visas) who come to the United States to have children to give their children dual citizenship; to prevent them from entering military service in their countries; and to get free education, welfare, healthcare and other benefits paid for by U.S. taxpayers.  

Click http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1868 to read the bill, who the sponsor and co-sponsors are, and what the status is.  If your U.S. Congressman has not co-sponsored this legislation, please call his/her office and request that he/she do so. 

Notes and Sources: 

Ireland banned birthright citizenship in June 2004.  Ireland was the only country left in the European Union to grant automatic birthright citizenship to non-citizens.  (“Voters Reject Automatic Citizenship for Babies Born in Ireland,” New York Times International”, September 13, 2004.) 

 New Zealand changed its law to ban automatic birthright citizenship in 2006.  (“Birthright Citizenship Abolished in New Zealand,” January 1, 2006, Newstalk ZB).  http://www.cis.org/articles/1993/back.793.html:  “The Basic Right of Citizenship, A Comparative Study”, September 1993, by Sarah A. Adams. http://www.numbersusa.com/Interests/birthrightcitizenship.html.

 http://www.numbersusa.com/content/ on August 9,2010, reports the dates the following countries banned birthright citizenship to children of non-citizens:  Australia (2007); New Zealand (2006); Ireland (2005); France (1993); India (1987); United Kingdom (1983); and Portugal (198).

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ILLEGAL — THAT’S THE MAGIC WORD

July 12th, 2010

By Lucy Kubiszyn

            “THERE can be  no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an America at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”         – Theodore Roosevelt 1907

            I wonder what old Teddy would think about the current illegal immigration issue and the attack by our own government on the people of the State of Arizona. Drugs dealers run rampant on our southern border, and heinous types of crimes are prevalent. This is not a new problem; rather it is one that has festered for years on our border with Mexico. Some of my Texas friends who live in border town like Corpus Christi, McAllen and El Paso have reported such  criminal activity for years.

            It isn’t that we discriminate against immigrants. My husband’s grandparents came over through Ellis Island from Poland and Italy. We are a nation of immigrants, but these earlier groups became American citizens. They came legally, followed the rules, learned the English language and became contributing members of society. This is not the case with these new arrivals who sneak across our border.

            During the early 1990s, I attended a marketing conference in San Diego where the keynote speaker made a statement I didn’t fully understand at the time, but one that I never forgot. She said: “By the year 2000 the United States will no longer be a melting pot. Rather, our country will have become a salad bowl.” This is what we are now dealing with.

            So what can ordinary citizens do? Pay attention to what is happening around you and vote. In November we have an opportunity to begin to take back our country. Support candidates who support conservative causes. It is true. WE ARE ALL ARIZONANS!

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Obama and Democrats are Like Thelma and Louise

May 4th, 2010

By Elois Zeanah

Remember that 1991 move “Thelma and Louise”?  Remember how it ends?  Two women are on a road trip and decide to floor the gas pedal to accelerate their car over the cliff and commit suicide.  The film ends with a freeze frame of the car in mid-air.  The women are laughing and screaming with the thrill of the ride – with no concern for the crash to follow. 

This is the image that Obama and his Democrat congress bring to mind.  They are determined to floor the gas pedal to drive our economy off the fiscal cliff — but they are enjoying the ride and giddy with the thrill of their victory over the American people.

Under President Obama, the meaning of “transfer of wealth” is broadening like a tide of red ink.  Not only is Obama  working tirelessly to transfer wealth from Americans who earned it to those who did not, he works increasingly hard to transfer wealth from Americans to creditor nations who keep U.S. afloat. Red ink, like an oil slick, is rolling toward shore, sucking energy and life from every organism in its path.

 Astonishingly, while Obama ratchets up spending, which translates into more taxes and more debt, his Federal Reserve Chairman and House Budget Chief warn that federal deficits could cripple the economy permanently; and Obama ‘s deficit reduction commission confirm that disaster is inevitable unless the tide of red ink is rolled back.  All agree that entitlement cuts (and, of course, more tax increases!) are necessary to stem the red ink tide and avert disaster. 

Since everyone agrees that America’s economy is in crisis and that entitlements, the momentum that swells the rising tide of red ink, must be rolled back drastically, why isn’t Obama and the Democrat congress proposing a safety net of spending cuts to save the economy from drowning?  Why is Obama and his Democrat congress calling for cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid – while stoking public anger to push through another entitlement called amnesty? 

Amnesty will force taxpayers to pay about $90 billion more every year for immigrants who will receive $3 to $4 in public benefits for every $1 they pay in taxes, according to the Heritage Foundation.   This only deepens debt and explodes deficits.

When Obama and the Democrat congress drive us over the looming fiscal cliff, will they still be laughing?

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“I’m Tired” ….

May 1st, 2010

By Elois Zeanah

Tired of what’s going on in America?  Tired of feeling alienated?  I’m copying below an email forward.  I wish I knew who the writer “Robert A. Hall” is because he deserves recognition.  Enjoy!

I’M TIRED
By Robert A. Hall    

I’m 63.  Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired. Very tired.  

I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth” to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.  

I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in their homes.”  Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.  

I’m tired of being told how bad  America  is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities  America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of  Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of  China , the crime and violence of  Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of   Iran  , and the freedom of speech of  Venezuela  .

I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor”; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t “believers”; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery”; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to.  

I’m tired of being told that “race doesn’t matter” in the post-racial world of Obama, when it’s all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.  

I think it’s very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.  

I’m tired of a news media that thinks Bush’s fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama’s, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush’s military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News?  Get a clue. I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.  

I’m tired of being told that out of “tolerance for other cultures” we must let  Saudi Arabia  use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in  America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in  Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.  

I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re greener than Gore, you’re green enough.  

I’m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don’t think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I’m tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.  

I’m tired of illegal aliens being called “undocumented workers,” especially the ones who aren’t working, but are living on welfare or crime. What’s next?  Calling drug dealers, “Undocumented Pharmacists”?  And, no, I’m not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it’s been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion.  I’m willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn’t have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military…. Those are the citizens we need.  

I’m tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war?  You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave?  Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are?  Not even close.  So here’s the deal. I’ll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we’ll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.  

I’m tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I’m tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in  Illinois , where the “Illinois Combine” of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama’s cabinet.  

I’m tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.  

Speaking of poor, I’m tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn’t have that in 1970, but we didn’t know we were “poor.” The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.  

I’m real tired of people who don’t take responsibility for their lives and actions. I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.  

I’m so tired. But I’m also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I’m not going to have to see the world these people are making. I’m just sorry for my granddaughter.

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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Why The Uproar Over Arizona’s Law?

April 29th, 2010

By Elois Zeanah

Editorials, President Obama, the usual voices of leftist ideology, and 2012 presidential hopefuls who want to court Hispanic votes have piled on to criticize Arizona’s law.  Reasons their arguments are not credible follow.

Arizona law does not allow racial profiling.  Arizona’s new immigration law permits police to ask for citizenship documents only when there is “reasonable suspicion” and when police have already detained someone for violating another law such as a traffic violation.

U.S.C. 1304(e) has required immigrants to carry documents to prove they are in the country legally for over 50 years.  It’s no more unreasonable to ask an immigrant for documentation, as law requires, than it is to ask a driver of a vehicle to show a driver’s license, as law requires, when an individual is suspected of breaking the law.  It’s curious that the same people who oppose asking immigrants for “proof of citizenship” support the imposition of a new law to show “proof of purchase” of health care. 

States have the right to enforce federal laws as long as states codify federal laws as state laws.  Arizona’s law to make it a state crime for immigrants not to have immigration documents on their person simply follows the constitutional process to give the state the right to enforce federal law.  I believe the reason for the pro-amnesty uproar is that protestors are afraid the law will work through attrition — as is being proven – and other states will follow suit.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that police have the right to question whether a person is in the U.S. illegally.   In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court noted that police can detail illegal aliens and that the Court has “held repeatedly that mere police questioning does not constitute a seizure” under the Fourth Amendment.  The Arizona law incorporates existing authorities.

Those who use Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration to manufacture a crisis through editorials, unruly demonstrations, lawsuits, boycotts, and accusations of racial profiling are the same people who support amnesty, abdication of border security, more debt, and bloated government.  Amnesty will force taxpayers to pay about $90 billion more every year for immigrants who will receive $3 to $4 in public benefits for every $1 they pay in taxes, according to the Heritage Foundation.  Should we increase an already exploding deficit?

Partisans hope to use hyped rhetoric over Arizona’s law to pass amnesty.  If  politicians wanted to curb illegal immigration, they would rescind this Administration’s decision to stop building the border wall, hold employers accountable through E-Verify, end sanctuary cities, and end birthright citizenship to get rid of the welfare magnet.

Instead, politicians purposefully violate their oath to uphold the constitution and pander to lawbreakers to get votes.  States should protect their citizens and their sovereignty from federal shenanigans.

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HEALTH CARE VOTE SLAYS CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: Why the President and Progressive Democrats Welcome Perishing Congressional Majorities

March 15th, 2010

By Elois Zeanah

 Why would President Obama and House Speaker Pelosi pressure Dems to fall on their political swords for Obamacare?   This slays conventional wisdom.  After all, power belongs to the Party who controls the most votes.   Is it possible that Democrats can gain more power by taking over healthcare than by controlling Congress?  Consider:

President Obama bets all his political chips to forcibly persuade fellow Democrats to smother reelection chances and die a political death for a greater cause.  At Obama’s flank is Speaker Pelosi who whips her charges into battle:  Pay not attention to polls, she commands, but lay down your political future to pass Obamacare. 

 To show how incredulous the campaign has become, Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel stalks a House Representative naked into a shower stall, and stabs a threatening finger into his exposed chest.  In addition to threats and intimidation, government largesse is used to bribe legislators who refuse to otherwise vote for a bill they know will significantly harm the nation’s economy and hurt the best health care system in the world.  Both the President and House Speaker have an unmistakable message:  The fight to take over healthcare is far more important than any person or any election. 

 Why is takeover of healthcare more important to Democrat political operatives than keeping House and Senate majorities?  Maybe it’s because the voters get it, and Democrats want to steal from voters their right to decide the future of their country.  Democrats are on the cusp of achieving a lifelong goal to seize new powers over the life, liberty and limb of every American and concentrate that power in the hands of government and a powerful president. 

 Obama and Pelosi thought they could trick voters.  Now they know they can’t.  Voters have seen through their smoky battle rhetoric.  Voters know that Obamacare will increase insurance costs, decrease quality of care, raise taxes, expand entitlements, and harm the economy. 

Why is the risk of losing majorities in the House and Senate worth it?  Takeover of health care will give President Obama the structure and the power to use his czars and other appointees to make sweeping regulations to go around congress and the constitution and to control individual lives in ways thought unthinkable.

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OBAMANOMICS VS AMERICANOMICS: Can Obama Change?

March 8th, 2010

By Elois Zeanah

Ah, the blessings of free enterprise!  Once again innovation American style sprints its Olympic mettle over sluggish disincentives of taxation, regulation and government takeovers when it comes to cleaning up environment pollution and creating green jobs. 
     To build a great green machine in America, Obamanomics would destroy American enterprise and jobs through proposed cap-and-trade taxes.  Americanomics, on the other hand, allows innovators to take risks and fund their own ideas with their own money to solve environmental problems and create jobs.  Take the latest discovery of how to use the environmental pollution byproduct of coal-burning plants to “make coal the cleanest, cheapest energy source by turning its carbon-dioxide emissions into bricks to build” houses.[1]  This invention promises clean technology and new jobs. 
      Obamonomics would use big government to bully and close down coal-burning plants, force Americans to import more foreign energy and pay more for it.  Americanomics allows inventors to risk their own capital to wean America off foreign energy sources, capitalize American natural resources and keep jobs in America.
      President Obama needs to use this example and others to lead our nation out of the recession and stop bullying free markets.  Can Obama change?  Or is ideology more important?  So far his track record to fix what ails America, including destroying the best health care system in the world, suggests the latter. 

[1] “Dreaming the possible dream” by Columnist Thomas Friedman, March 8, 2010

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A NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE TO POLITICIANS: “No More Presents, Please!”

December 31st, 2009

By Elois Zeanah

 As 2009 fades into a new year, we Americans find ourselves loaded with presents from rich ol’ Uncle Sam.  Gifts galore spoil us rotten.  Government lifts the burden of accountability from our shoulders and spares us the trials of personal responsibility.  Why worry?  Uncle Sam is there to take care of us.  Why do difficult tasks like work hard, build character, and fight for freedom and uphold principles that founded America?  Uncle Sam has more politicians than Santa has elves to make life easy.  So forget about doing what’s right.  Forget about being stigmatized by societal norms.  Get on the dole.  Taking gifts from government has a lure of its own and as government convinces more people to line up to take free gifts, the more acceptable and widespread the freeloading practice becomes.  

 Government gifts make former anti-social behaviour commonplace – to the detriment of society and the government’s fiscal purse.

 Government encourages teenagers to have children out of wedlock.  This was once frowned upon.  This is not good for children and it’s not good for society.  But government replaced personal responsibility with so-called compassion and charity and heaped gifts upon miscreant girls for wrongful actions.  Out-of-wedlock births gradually became socially acceptable and society’s responsibility.  Having a child out of wedlock has become a way for teenagers and high school dropouts to get on welfare and stay on welfare for life.  The result:  More illegitimate births.  More single-parent families. More poverty.  More crime.  More tax dollars funneled to enable this vicious cycle.  More government budget deficits.

Another result is that illegal alien teenagers have learned that they, too, will be rewarded for having children out of wedlock if born in the U.S.  They can also get on welfare immediately and stay on welfare for life.  And, as unbelievable as it is, illegal aliens can also avoid being deported and even attain citizenship by having a child born in the U.S. out of wedlock.  More gifts from government!  More government deficits.

Government condones illegal immigration and winks at citizens who aid and abet those who break the law.  This crime is considered compassion and charity to the extent that laws no longer rule.  The rule of law was once king.  Now laws are used as chips to broker something for personal advantage – usually cheap labor, more votes, or more church members.  Politicians use non-enforcement of immigration laws as gifts to campaign contributors.  Gifts from government weaken the fabric of society, strain public coffers, and spread the circle of corruption to engulf those who make the laws.

 Selling votes for favors no longer brings disgrace.  Just like having children out of wedlock and non-enforcement of immigration laws, vote-buying on the floors of legislatures  is commonplace.  Legislators sell their votes to buy gifts for their constitutents to buy re-election.  U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently stated in connection with the health care debate that if U.S. Representatives don’t get in on the spree of selling votes, then those representatives should be shamed.  This is not good for the country.  It encourages and enables corrupt government.  And this practice of pork costs taxpayers precious dollars and rings up trillions in deficits.

 Government “gifts” have corrupted citizens and politicians

 Good government for one and for all was once the goal of the federal government. Today, the rules of the game are not to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution and to base decisions on what is good for the general welfare.  Instead, a good politician is seen as one who can game the system and sell the public a lie as the truth and escape accountability. 

No more presents, please!

  All these gifts from Uncle Sam to buy our dependence and in return to overlook government corruption leads to an attitude similar to the Stockholm Syndrome.  But the corruption runs deeper.  Government deals in deceit:  Uncle Sam puts these so-called ”gifts” on our credit card.  We not only pay for them, we pay compound interest.  

Please, Uncle Sam, no more presents!  Let us stand on our own feet and fight for ourselves and each other and what’s good for our country!   And, Uncle Sam, it’s time that you understood that you are not the rich uncle you pretend, but a freeloading pauper who steals every dime you spend.  It’s time you took personal responsibility for your actions and stopped taking our treasure without our permission and bankrupting us.  That would usher 2010 in as a Happy New Year!

 

 

 

 

 

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2010 CENSUS IS BACK-DOOR AMNESTY

October 27th, 2009

By Elois Zeanah

Action Alert:  Contact Your U.S. Representatives Immediately

 The Obama Administration is using the 2010 census to give back-door amnesty to illegal immigrants to grab more power for Democrats in future elections.  This will further dismantle the U.S. Constitution and erode Voting Rights.  The only way to stop the President and Congress from this unconstitutional act is to contact our U.S. Representatives and ask them to vote for the David Vitter/Robert Bennett Census Amendment. This amendment was made to the FY2010 CJS (Commerce, Justice, Science) appropriations bill.  It would require the Census to include questions about citizenship and immigration status.   A vote is imminent.

The 2010 U.S. Census will count illegal immigrants as U.S. Citizens for the first time ever.  Unless Conservatives stop this, Liberals will use the 2010 U.S. Census to erase checks and balances that were put in place to keep elections honest.  Voter fraud committed to steal elections has already become a problem in many states.  If the U.S. Census is politicized in 2010, counting illegal immigrants will set precedent and forevermore skew the results of the Census, which in turn will impact elections.  

How does the Census Impact Elections?  The Census is used to:

  • Apportion seats in Congress.  Population determines the number of Congressional seats a state gets.  States with higher illegal immigration such as California and New York (which incidentally are “sanctuary cities” in violation of federal immigration law and teetering on bankruptcy) will get more Congressional seats and states with fewer illegal immigrants will lose Congressional seats. Counting illegal aliens in the 2010 U.S. Census will reward states that encourage illegal immigration and punish states that have not followed the law.
  • Distribute federal funds to states.  Federal funds (tax-dollars received from states) are allocated based on population. These funds amount to approximately $400 billion every year.  States that have more illegal aliens will get the lion’s share of federal dollars while states with fewer illegal immigrants will be denied their fair share.
  • Determine the number of votes states get for the Electoral College that elects the President of the United States.  States with higher illegal immigration will determine who becomes President.  

Conservatives must act now to keep Liberal Democrats from seizing illegitimate power by politicizing the non-partisan Census.  Liberals want amnesty because most illegal immigrants, due to their education and job skills, are poor.  If they have children born in the United States, and seventy-five percent do, illegal aliens automatically become eligible for tax-subsidized programs – the same as poor U.S. citizens.  Thus the cost of entitlement programs and fiscal deficits continue to skyrocket.  Studies show that illegal and legal Mexican households receive more welfare than U.S. citizens and consume more government benefits than they pay in taxes.  So why would Democrats encourage illegal immigration and amnesty?   Because, if given citizenship, illegal aliens would add to Democrat voting blocs. 

The Democrat Congress has already included loopholes in the Stimulus bill, S-CHIP, and the health care reform bill so that illegal immigrants can qualify for jobs and benefits.  This encourages more illegal immigration and further strains federal, state and local budgets. 

Democrats plan to use the Census to strengthen their stranglehold on power.   If illegal aliens are counted as U.S. citizens in the Census, this will further integrate illegal immigrants into the fabric of American culture and influence political outcomes.  Democrats know the majority of Americans oppose amnesty and that U.S. citizens want fiscal responsibility and deficits rolled back.  Democrats know that amnesty will push deficits higher.   Yet the President and Congress care more about perpetuating power than protecting our country from financial collapse.  This is not a time to import more poverty and expand entitlement programs.  This is a time to roll back spending and cut deficits.

It is urgent to stop backdoor amnesty!   Call your U.S. Representatives today, and ask them to vote for the Vitter Amendment and protect the integrity of the Census.

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MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT: Can You Hear Us Now?

September 21st, 2009

 By Elois Zeanah

 President Obama continues to blitz the airwaves.  My message is not breaking through,  the President of the United States complains. 

 Mr. President, the problem is not that we aren’t hearing you; it’s that you’re not hearing us!  Let’s see if we can clear communications over this land-line.

 When asked about why your message is not resonating, you say:  The opposition has made a decision.  They are just not going to support anything, for political reasons.

 Mr. President, concern that you’re wrecking health care for 97% of Americans to subsidize insurance for 3%  more Americans is not political.  Pardon me, but it’s irrational!   The realization that you over-exaggerate the number of “uninsured Americans” makes us cynical.  Our concern that your “reform” is a calculation to grab more power and more of our money to spread around is not political.  How many times have Republicans, Independents and Democrats explained that we ran your numbers?  They don’t add up.   In case our message did not get through, here’s a rundown of your numbers:

#1 UNMET PROMISE:  PROPOSED BILLS DO NOT COVER EVERYONE

 The 47 million “uninsured Americans” is a fabrication.  The number is closer to 10-16 million.  A close analysis of the same Census Bureau data you used reveals:

  • Millions of citizens covered by Medicaid and S-CHIP were undercounted.
  • Millions who have access to Medicaid and S-CHIP but choose not to take it until they are sick were counted as “uninsured”. 
  • Millions who earn $70,000 and over and can afford insurance were included as “uninsured”.
  • Millions of illegal aliens were counted as “uninsured Americans”.

 The real number of “uninsured Americans” is about 3% of the total population.  Opposition is not political!  Your proposal seems reckless.  Further, analyses show that despite spending over a trillion dollars in start-up costs, the House and Senate bills would still leave about 16 million Americans uninsured.  So promise number one that everyone will be covered is not met.  

 Do I hear static, sir?

#2 UNMET PROMISE:  PROPOSED BILLS DO NOT LOWER COSTS

 Then there’s that troublesome little issue of affordability.  Your premise that you must overhaul the health care system to curb unsustainable costs so that everyone can afford insurance seems to have fizzled. 

 Mr. President, concern that your own Congressional Budget Office says your plan will not lower insurance costs and the assessment by the non-partisan Heritage Foundation that private coverage for the typical American could go up as much as $460 per year due to new price controls set in the legislation – well, somehow our confidence crumbles.  This is not political.  It’s grave concern that Americans will pay more for less, have less choice and less competition, and be burdened by more onerous taxes and deeper deficits.

 #3 UNMET PROMISE:  AMERICANS CAN’T KEEP INSURANCE

 And all that talk about how you will make sure that every American who likes their insurance and doctors can keep them?  Well, Mr. President, that isn’t true either, is it now?  The non-partisan Lewin Group reports that almost 50% of private insurance holders will lose their coverage and be shifted to the public plan.  That’s just to start.  How many more of us will fall like dominoes behind those?

 And, oh, Mr. President, there’s that thorny issue about Americans being able to choose a plan like Congress.  Remember what you said at a town hall meeting on August 11th?  You stated, “That’s what the health exchange is all about, is that you – just like a member of Congress – can go and choose the plan that’s right for you.” 

 That warms our heart.  But when I checked, your plan for typical Americans is nothing like the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program that only you, Members of Congress and federal employees get.   Mr. President, surely you wouldn’t mislead us.  Did you know that the FEHBP system has no government-run public option competing with private plans? 

 Is that stuttering or static on your end, Mr. President?

#4 UNMET PROMISE:  WE CAN’T TRUST GOVERNMENT MORE

 Mr. President, Americans want true health care reform.  We have a problem.  Americans pay 18% GNP for health care while most other advanced countries pay 10% and have a longer life expectancy.  Yet medical costs in the U.S. continue to rise rapidly.  Something must be done.  But before we give up the best health care system in the world, we have a few questions:

 Why should we trust a president and bureaucrats, who have never had to meet a payroll, more than we trust free market enterprise?

 Why should we trust a president and bureaucrats to takeover the health care system when fraud in government health care programs runs 15% and fraud in the private sector is 1%? 

 Why should Americans trust a president and bureaucrats to keep the private sector honest when government will not hold itself accountable?  For example:

  • Social Security is a great program, but Congress couldn’t keep its hands off our trust fund.  Congress has stolen over $11 trillion from our Social Security trust fund and now seniors are scared about its future. 
  • Medicare is another program that works well, but once again Congress couldn’t keep its hands off our money and Medicare now has $38 trillion in unfunded liabilities.  
     
  • Government has been unable to stop the estimated $224 billion in fraud every year in Medicare and Medicaid.  Criminals live high-faluting lifestyles while seniors worry that Medicare may go bankrupt. 

 Mr. President, if you’re sincere about cleaning up the fraud mess, why are you waiting?

 There are so many other examples of how the President and Congress have been unwilling to use current laws on the books and their oversight authority to rein in abuses in government and in the private sector.  Instead, government declares emergencies and uses our tax dollars for bailouts for private industries that use the same accounting gimmickry that government uses.  This does not breed trust.

 Bottom line, Mr. President, why should Americans trust you and unaccountable bureaucrats with one-sixth of our economy when you haven’t proven that you are trustworthy? 

 I’m listening for your answer, Mr. President.  What’s that?  How this line been disconnected?

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