Your Not Going To Believe This, Stimulis for Mexico!!!!!

From the spp website:

This work will be based on the principle that our security and prosperity are mutually dependent and complementary, and will reflect our shared belief in freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic [not republican as in "and to the Republic, for which it stands, ONE nation under God"] values and institutions. Also, it will help consolidate our action into a North American framework to confront security and economic challenges, and promote the full potential of our people, addressing disparities and increasing opportunities for all.

http://www.cfr.org/public...

Excerpts:

Shannon O’Neil, CFR’s Mexico expert, says that although many members of Congress are upset at not being consulted on the details of a new $1.4 billion multiyear initiative to bolster Mexico’s crackdown on drug and criminal rings, she believes that it will get congressional approval. “There is political will on both sides to help Mexico out,” she says.

Now where did this initiative come from?

It actually came from the Mexican side. Calderon proposed to Bush to do some sort of joint project back in March when they met together in Merida, so hence it becomes the Merida Initiative. In the first year, Bush is proposing $500 million of aid to Mexico and over the next three years $1.4 billion worth of aid to help Calderon build up his technological equipment and police and military forces to combat the drug cartels.

Is there a bill now before Congress?

Sure. It is a supplementary funding bill mainly for Iraq, in which the Merida Initiative is included. It is $500 million as a part of a larger $50 billion package. So it’s tied in some ways to the state of the Iraq funding as well, which is of course an issue in its own right.

Has the initiative gone to any committee for consideration?

This is just added on. So the people in the House and Senate foreign relations committees are discussing this but the administration hasn’t sent someone yet to really discuss the nitty-gritty of this bill to either of the subcommittees yet. So they haven’t really yet started hatching up the issues yet. Congress has complained that its members were left out of the negotiation process.

Usually when there is a major initiative, people from the State Department or the Defense Department go to Capitol Hill and brief the staff people on what’s up. Why was this done so secretively?

It’s hard to know. In fact the House subcommittee on the western hemisphere had asked the State Department to come right after it was really released. The department said, “Not yet. We’re going to come in a couple of weeks with more information.” So it’s a little unclear why they have been so secretive. But perhaps it’s because they were really hammering out these negotiations with the Mexican government and trying to deal with the sensitivities of Mexico.

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Notice that this was HIDDEN in the IRAQ defense bill!

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OK, you may not like Malkin, neither do I - EXCEPT on immigration - I agree with her 100% - she is HARD CORE!

So, I would suggest you read the comments - that's where I got the CFR link. It is amazing - those Bushies are in TOTAL SHOCK! They just cannot BELIEVE that he would have done this (where've they been the last 8 years?)

Anyway, it's awesome to read all those NeoCONs declaring their newfound hatred for Bush!

Please realize that this truly works in our favor. Before they only hated McCain - this story FINALLY is making them see the truth!

I may be a vegetarian, but I'll defend to the death my right to eat pork!

Health care for Mexico too.. ~gag~

http://opensourceactivist...

The health care mess in the United States is a top concern of voters. Too many Americans find that, despite their best efforts, they are unable to provide quality health care for their families. Too many Americans live in fear that an illness might leave them destitute. Too many Americans spend years sacrificing to pay skyrocketing premiums only to discover that, when the need arises, their policies offer protections that are next to worthless.

Most of us agree that it’s simply not right that so many Americans, sincerely trying their best to provide for their families, are at the mercy of a phalanx of greedy insurance companies, medical malpractice lawyers, health care corporations, and other profiteers that have used decades of influence in Washington to institutionalize their chomp hold on the public jugular.

What would Americans think, then, of a member of Congress who introduced legislation, not to improve health care in the United States, but to improve health care in Mexico?

Insane? Drunk? Unworthy of public office?

What would Americans think, then, of a bill introduced in Congress that required federal agencies to come up with a plan, not to expand health coverage in the United States, but to expand health coverage in Mexico?

Impossible? Unthinkable? Wildly irresponsible?

What would Americans think, then, of the motives of a senator, who not only introduced a bill to improve Mexico’s health care system and extend coverage to a growing population of 120 million people, but gave health insurance companies the right to help devise the plan?

Blatantly corrupt? Grossly indifferent to the well-being of the American people? Downright treasonous?

Unbelievable as it may seem, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 contained a provision giving insurance companies the right to help devise a plan for extending US health care to Mexico (Sec. 1004. BINATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AND HEALTH INSURANCE).

Even more unbelievable, the senator who sponsored the bill is not on the verge of being thrown out of office for this odious piece of legislation. No, the senator who introduced the bill, Senator John McCain of Arizona, is on the verge of locking up the Republican nomination to be our next president.

Damn! How come you didn’t know that before you voted for John McCain on Tuesday, you ask?

You’ve been watching the all-day-every-day TV news coverage of the primaries.

You’ve been reading your local newspaper’s daily coverage of the races for the parties’ nominations.

You are an above-average-informed voter.

You know that

large majorities of young people and black people support Barack Obama,
a majority of white women over the age of 40 support Hillary Clinton,
a majority of Christian evangelicals support Mike Huckabee,
John McCain’s Republican supporters are moderates,
Barack Obama has doubled his support among southern white males since South Carolina,
Mitt Romney has financed much of his own campaign,
Iowa is lily-white,
Fox News cable television didn’t have enough room in its studio to include Republican candidate Ron Paul in a debate between the Republican candidates it televised,
Republicans hope Hillary wins,
McCain is the only Republican who can win in November, and everyone, even Democrats, respects his history as a POW,
Rudy Giuliani’s strategy to skip the first few primaries and focus on Florida was a bad one,
Oprah Winfrey supports Barack Obama, and not just because he’s African-American,
Arnold Schwarzenegger supports John McCain, but his wife supports Barack Obama,
Robert DeNiro supports Barack Obama because Obama makes him "believe,"
Ron Paul raised a record amount of money one day a couple of months ago,
large majorities of Latinos support Hillary Clinton,
Mitt Romney unhiply riffed on "Who Let the Dogs Out," and
the top vote-getting position for an American presidential candidate this year is to be for "change."
But you didn’t know that the only clear front-runner in the race to be our next president proposed, in the last session of congress, a bi-national health care system to be devised by insurance companies. To be devised by insurance companies, for crying out loud.

Eight years of George W. Bush, Karl Rove, and the Wall Street Journal’s “GOP stalwart,” Jack Abramoff, have left the Republican Party in such a tattered mess that its future is in doubt. But (and you’ll know this if you are a well-informed voter), anti-Bush Republicans are supporting…John McCain!

I don’t know. Maybe we’re too stupid to have a democracy.

Oh, and, by the way, all you Barack Obama supporters—before you start feeling all superior: while no one can deny how exceedingly important it is to elect a president who supports change—especially one that has the ability to make Robert DeNiro believe—there may be one characteristic Senator Obama possesses even more salient, if you can imagine, than the incidental fact of his father’s skin color: Barack Obama co-sponsored John McCain’s health-care-for-Mexico legislation.

I may be a vegetarian, but I'll defend to the death my right to eat pork!

Mexico does not want any competition, the want to corner the market on illegal immigration.

"...it will be hard for them to cover up this like they have attempeted to on the NAU agreement."

The American people will have to actually give a damn. Something tells me they won't.

This is how you get away with not securing our southern border. You create the North American union and then only secure the border between Mexico and Central America.

I refuse to go to Michelle Malkin site.

Oh, I'm going to believe it, I'm going to believe it all. And I'm going to fight it all for as long as the Good Lord gives me breath. The One-Worlders will stop at nothing--they've already subverted, usurped, and circumvented the Constitution so many times over that the NAU is just another brick in the wall, so to speak.

"We don't have to start a brand new revolution...All we have to do is restore the original Constitution." -Ron Paul