Bush and Obama: Betraying America
Liberty Weeps
Richard Falknor at Blue Ridge Forum speaks of Bush’s legacy. Personally, I will remember (and curse) him for his betrayal of America. But in his many egregious perfidies, he is only one in a succession of leaders who have brought this country to it’s present angle of descent. It matters little if that descent is rapid (Obama) or slow (McCain). The forces working against America are legion and the momentum they have achieved, the powers that they have harnessed, are being met with no comparable opposing force.
Blue Ridge Forum will be tracking the fiscal and human costs to America of president Bush’s “legacy” efforts - - - in security as well as domestic matters.
The unstated assumption of these legacy initiatives must be - - - that most Americans in the future will share (at the very least) a center-left vision of the world as well as a soft multiculturalist perspective; that future writers will be kind to the Bush record after this president leaves office when partisan passions have cooled; and that America’s official chroniclers will then appreciate the president’s many legacies from his second term. Or so the reasoning of the White House would seem to go.
It is almost as if Bush is punting this country for Obama’s team to take it all the way over the edge.
PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), Bush’s bloated legislation that will bleed Americans in excess of 50 billion dollars, is a small part of his legacy, and his treachery.
“The Administration notes that the bill would authorize $50 billion for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria over five years—an amount significantly above the Administration’s $30 billion proposal.”
Most are aware of Bush’s obsession with squandering good treasure on AIDS in Africa. Few know about the blight of refugees pouring into this country under the aegis Bush’s beneficence, nor the incredible and mounting burdens those refugees have already, and will continue imposing on America.
Refugee resettlement in America is little mentioned in the press, per their usual self-imposed PC proscriptions. Thousands and thousands of African, primarily muslim, refugees have been pouring into America and now, due to the efforts of militant homosexual activists, we will now be importing refugees diagnosed as HIV positive. And you will be paying for their treatment.
Now comes a group called “Immigration Equality” that describes itself as follows:
Immigration Equality is a national organization fighting for equality under U.S. immigration law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-positive individuals. Founded in 1994 as the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, we have grown to a membership of 10,000 people in cities all over the country. ….
Immigration Equality helps Gays and Lesbians seek asylum in the US…. I guess their work must be stepped up in recent times as the internet is full of photos of gay men being hanged in Islamic countries like Iran.
Anyway here is what they are telling their members what the next step is to make sure the ban removal is fully implemented.
Update on Law lifting ban to allow HIV-positive immigrants to enter US
To hell with drilling, infrastructure, missile defense and bolstering our economy. Let’s just cure the whole freaking planet of AIDS.
S.2731 goes to the Senate floor on Monday and is expected to be signed into law by September because it is supported by the Bush Administration …
Here is the kicker (if $50 billion of our tax dollars wasn’t already) from the Congressional Budget Office:
….enacting S. 2731 would ……allow immigrants with HIV/AIDS to enter the United States. CBO estimates that providing certain benefits to those immigrants and their children would increase direct spending by less than $500,000 in 2010 and by $83 million over the 2010-2018 period.
Refugees are already coming here with HIV (and TB for that matter) despite the ban on foreigners with the disease from traveling or immigrating to the US. This bill would allow all immigrants to enter the US with HIV and be treated at taxpayer expense. I don’t think it takes a genius to see how this opens the door wide to more immigrants (including illegal immigrants) who will rush the gates and become dependent on our already overburdened health care system. (Source)
It’s a damn shame that we are no longer as vigilant as we were when admitting immigrants on Ellis Island.
While admission decisions were made by the Immigration Service (IS), the law required medical inspection of immigrants by the United States Public Health Service (PHS). When a PHS medical officer formally diagnosed an immigrant with a disease or defect, throwing his or her admissibility into question, that individual was considered “medically certified.” The law required the PHS to issue a medical certificate to those who suffered from a “loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease” [1]. Exclusion of those diagnosed with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, venereal disease, trachoma, and favus was mandatory [2].
The PHS defined its mission rather narrowly—preventing the entrance of disease to the nation—but PHS officers interpreted their job more broadly. In their eyes, the goal was to prevent the entrance of undesirable people—those “who would not make good citizens” [3]. In the context of industrial-era America, immigrants who would wear out prematurely, requiring care and maintenance rather than supplying manpower, would not make “good” citizens. By 1903 the PHS had elaborated two major categories: “Class A” loathsome or dangerous contagious diseases and “Class B” diseases and conditions that would render an immigrant “likely to become a public charge.” A subset of Class A conditions included mental conditions such as insanity and epilepsy. (Source)
Today’s “progressive” would find such mandates “inhumane” and exclusionary. I say it is far more damning to destroy America’s fortunes and to plunge future generations into the desperately morose lives that comes from a world bereft of freedom, innovation, invention and vigor - all of which will be sacrificed on the bloody altar of the “greater good”.
Bush indeed has punted America to the other team. And he doesn’t much give a damn about how the game will end. Obama will run with Bush’s paltry 50 billion and, faux “messiah” that he is, he will multiply our debt and our taxes like Jesus multiplied the fish and bread. We will be awash in poverty. Our children’s burdens and deprivations shall runneth over.
And there will still be AIDS, and there will still be poverty. Only there will be no more a bright and shining city on a hill to serve as beacon for, not Obama hope, but the real hope that America once ineluctably embodied.
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LarryG August 4th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Zee, thank you for this post. Your blog is a treasure, saying the hard things that others just rant about or tip-toe around. Your insights and forthright unveiling of that virus called progressivism is refreshing.