The majority of the Republican Party has expressed its displeasure with the healthcare reform law recently passed by the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress. However, there is one glaring exception. Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, of all people, supports the law. Frist, a former doctor himself, recently participated in an American Hospital Association panel when he made those statements. According to him, the law is relatively moderate. By no means does he consider the bill perfect. Dr. Frist gives the law’s cost control measures a “C” grade. That is still far better than the failing grade most of his ideological colleagues would give it, although the George W. Bush administration and Republican Congress prior to 2006 were also criticized for running up the budget deficit. Despite those concerns, he also said that he is proud of this administration for taking steps to expand access to affordable health insurance to over 30 million Americans. What does he think of those accusations that the law is socialism? First brushes them off. A nationalized health insurance plan would involve the government directly deciding on doctors’ compensation and owning hospitals, which the bill does not do. In addition, Frist predicts that the multi-state lawsuit against the health insurance mandate provision will fail. Will fellow Republicans listen to Frist? Being out of political office, he can afford to be more moderate. In addition, he is largely considered as part of the GOP establishment that repels Tea Party supporters almost as much as Democrats. In the past, he indicated that he would consider voting for the current bill if he had still been in the Senate, but we will never know if those were just empty words.
Texas ag-commissioner candidate touts reform in Abilene
The Democratic candidate for Texas agriculture commissioner unveiled what he called a comprehensive reform plan — including a call to restructure some of the state’s bureaucracies — during a stop Wednesday in Abilene.During a news conference at Frontier Texas!, Hank Gilbert said he sees several areas in which operations of the Texas Department of Agriculture could be improved. He said he chose …
Alex Jones Show Live welcomes back to the show Texas Congressman and former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. Paul’s bill, HR 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, has gained tremendous momentum since it was introduced in the House last February. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author of Obama – The Postmodern Coup who appears in Alex’s The Obama Deception, makes an appearance. Alex also takes on the important issues of the day and takes your calls. www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.com prisonplanet.tv jonesreport.com www.infowars.net www.truthnews.us ————————————– PETITION FOR OBAMA www.wnd.com
Alex welcomes back to the show Gerald Celente, trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other events of historical importance. In 2009, Celente predicted turmoil which he described as “Obamageddon” and believes the Tea Party movement and tax protests are harbingers of revolution. Alex also talks with Wayne Paul, the brother of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, and regular guest Bob Chapman, publisher of The International Forecaster. Alex covers the latest breaking news and takes your calls.
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Dozens of residents in Mexico along the U. S. Mexican border have crossed into the U. S. and asked for political asylum, telling authorities that they fear for their lives. As the U. S. State Dept. cautions Americans about travel to Mexican border towns and President Obama reportedly is cutting back on the U. S. Border Patrol and Republican Senator John McCain asked the U. S. Government to deploy the National Guard to the border in response to narcotics violence. New Mexico Gov: Bill Richardson orders his state troops to it’s southern border with Mexico. Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently put his National Guard on the Texas Mexico border. Arizona and California are expected to follow suit.
Most residents of Mexican border towns feel they are under siege by the powerful and rich Mexican Drug Cartels (MDC’S) who seem to be operating with immunity. Partly as a result American cities along the U. S. Mexican border are on high alert and preparing for a surge of illegal immigrants should that threat to start killing the children be carried out. Mexican citizens have told this reporter that they believe the MDC’s do pretty much as they want because the Mexican Army has been bought off just as the politicians, police and judges have. According to the El Paso Times officials of the Texas border town of Fort Hancock, report that they consider the situation serious. “We just got word that the cartel has threatened to kill children in schools across the border unless parents paid $5000 pesos,” said Mike Doyle, chief deputy sheriff of Hudspeth County. And that time might come sooner than later. Schools Superintendent Jose Franco said word has spread that everyone in the Mexican town must stay indoors while members of rival cartels prepare for a shootout. “I may not be working in school that day. I may be working as a medic,” said Franco, who moonlights as an ambulance paramedic. Franco also confirmed the ransom demand for students across the border, adding that some of his students had already paid the money to be left alone. Mexican Drug Cartels have reached across the international border into the United States to kill people including Americans and their reach extends North, East and West across our nation. MDC’S have ordered the killings of drug dealers, American gang members, U. S. Consulate employees, a Detention Officer with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, DEA agent, ICE informant and U. S. Military personal. MDC’S are also responsible for many kidnapping’s of Americans on American soil and have taken Americans to Mexico to be tortured, maimed and murdered, without any retaliation from the U. S. Government. In a new development the U. S. has been able to assist the Mexican Government in its investigation to help establish “The motive behind the murder of two U. S. Consulate employees and the Detention Officer with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. New information on an arrest that was initially said to be tied to those murders, Mexican authorities were reporting 45-year-old Ricardo Valles de la Rosa, a member of the Barrio Azteca gang in Juarez, was responsible for killing U. S. consulate worker Lesley Enriquez and her husband Arthur Redelfs. However, the El Paso Times are reporting that, Mexican authorities said Valles was not a suspect in the deaths. The couple who lived in El Paso was gunned down March 13 while leaving a birthday party in Juarez. Details about the arrest are still sketchy, Mexican investigators are expected to release more information soon. The family of Ricardo Valles de la Rosa, says that he was held incommunicado at home for two days and beaten before being taken to authorities. The wife of Ricardo Valles, said that he was deported from the United States more than two years ago. “I am sure that he was not a member of the Azteca gang”, she said. “He doesn’t look like a gangster, and has no gang tattoos”, she said while crying. The military broke into the home at about 2:00 or 3:00 PM Wednesday afternoon and took him without giving a reason, according to her. Also she said that there was no firearm in the house and that is why she thinks they planted the firearm that they supposedly found. “He couldn’t move, they kept beating him, they are lying”, she said during a recess declared by the presiding judge in the hearing. “I am his wife and I was with him at the time this incident occurred and I am sure he wasn’t involved”, she said. Although he was incarcerated in the United States, she did not know the reason he had been jailed. Valles is still being detained and questioned by authorities. Brutal assassinations has been going on since Mexican President Calderon started the war on drugs shortly after taking office in 2006. Mexican newspapers report that as many as 20,000 people have been killed in Mexico as a direct result of the war. “That dangerous situation involving Americans being killed on both sides of the border without much being done to curtail it has finally gotten attention from our border states where they have been forced to fill the void and start protecting their citizens” said an active Texas Ranger. Just recently Texas Gov. Rick Perry ordered a multiagency task force to the area. Rep. Kay Granger, the area congresswoman, pushed through the sale of three helicopters to the Mexican government to monitor the area. And the local sheriff has shifted patrols to the area in the hopes of stemming any violence that might spread across the border.
New Mexico news outlets report that Gov. Richardson ordered National Guard soldiers to patrol the state’s border with Mexico after the killing of a rancher in Arizona. According to news reports today soldiers will be assisting the U. S. Border Patrol by setting up surveillance in counter-drug efforts in the desert along the border, said a spokes man for the state’s National Guard. “Basically, it is just assisting them with observation and giving them a lot more eyes on the border,” Lt. Col. Jamison Herrera said. “We stand ready to support federal and local law enforcement to make sure the southern border of New Mexico stays safe and secure,” Herrera said. New Mexico officials refused to reveal any details of the operation nor disclose the number of soldiers who will be deployed, where they will be stationed or what sophistication level of air and ground equipment will be used. Herrera said the Air and Army National Guard in New Mexico consists of about 4,000 people. State officials say residents of Southern New Mexico have expressed concerns after the Arizona rancher’s murder, possibly committed by someone who crossed the border. Robert Krentz, 58, was shot and killed on Saturday while he worked on his remote ranch west of the New Mexico state line. No one has been arrested, but the trail of a suspect led authorities to the Mexican border. Richardson’s office confirmed that the deployment is due to fears of residents in the New Mexico Bootheel region after Krentz’s murder near by. The New Mexico Bootheel and the adjacent southeastern Arizona area is a known hotbed of Illegal alien crossings and Mexican drug smugglers. There are reports of a spike in recent months in immigrant-related crime, including shootings, vandalism and ranch/home break-ins. “I want residents in Southern New Mexico to know we are taking this border violence very seriously by adding the National Guard presence along with state, local and federal law enforcement patrols along the border,” Richardson said in a statement. On Tuesday, Richardson announced that state police and sheriffs’ patrols would increase on the border while the Krentz killing remains under investigation. The rancher’s death also spurred U. S. Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, along with Rep. Harry Teague, all of New Mexico, to ask the Department of Homeland Security to increase the number of Border Patrol agents in the area and set up a Forward Operating Base in the New Mexico Bootheel. Troops had been sent to the New Mexico border before. The federal Operation Jump Start placed guardsmen along the border to help watch for illegal crossings and build the border fence in 2007 and 2008. The deployment in New Mexico comes weeks after Texas Gov. Rick Perry activated the Texas Military Forces OH-58 Kiowa and the UH-72 Lakota helicopters to patrol the border between El Paso and Brownsville. The El Paso Times reports that the Texas deployment is part of the first phase of Perry’s classified plan, which he said is necessary to prevent the spillover of drug violence from Mexico. Perry’s critics panned the move as nothing more than election-year grandstanding. Harold Kuenstler, a county commissioner in Hidalgo County in the New Mexico Bootheel, said Richardson’s announcement is a good step. “When the National Guard has gone to the Bootheel, there was a decrease” in trafficking activity, he said. “They have a high presence and visibility, and entries slowed down. ” Kuenstler, who ran the Border Patrol’s Lordsburg station until retiring in 1997, said he thinks the agency needs to shift how it monitors for undocumented immigrant traffic in rural regions. Now, he said, agents work too far from the border.
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Sources for the above article:Mexican newspaper reportsKTSM Channal 9 El PasoEl Paso TimesEl Paso JournalNew Mexico National GuardLuna County Sheriff’s OfficeU. S. Border PatrolJuarez Police Dept. Mexican MilitaryJuarez Residents
After the recent press conference given by President Obama, it is clear our economy is in trouble. According to him, and a majority of world-renowned economists, the United State’s economy has not been in as poor condition since the Great Depression. Although there are numerous reasons our economy has downgraded to this dangerous level, one of the root causes of this problem lies heavily in the real estate sector. More specifically, the amount of foreclosures and the huge decrease in property value are large culprits.
Many Americans have struggled to make their mortgage payments each month, in which some of the struggle can be contributed to high price of a house that should not have been approved to be purchased in the first place. The vicious cycle that existed between consumer, banker and government was a very tricky and dysfunctional relationship. For the most part, all three parties believed they were doing the right thing.
Refinancing is desperately needed for those individuals who are still hanging on to their properties. There is hope for those who are still hoping to hang on to their beloved homes. Some states were more fortunate than others in the foreclosure crisis, even though all-in-all, the situation is dreary.
In accordance with Texas housing, this is a quote written by US Senator, John Corwyn.
“The housing crunch has taken its toll in Texas. In 2008, Texas was listed as one of the top ten states in foreclosure totals. Meritage, one of the nation’s biggest homebuilders with more than 65 percent of its communities located in Texas, reported that its fourth-quarter orders in Texas fell 61 percent. Experts claim that a decrease in prices in some of Texas’ top industries like oil and natural gas is having a negative impact on the state’s housing market. ”
He goes on saying we need a plan that will provide relief to the housing market in Texas. It allows for hardworking Texans to keep a larger portion of their spending money.
There are a million twists and turns within this plan, making it nearly impossible for everyone to come to a consensus. However, on a smaller scale, there are ways to provide a little leeway for Texans who are in need of refinancing their homes.
If you are trying to purchase a home, or refinance one during this time, the process can seem rather daunting. Fortunately, there are places that can help ease your fears.
For more information on Texas home loans, visit this site: http://www. texasmortgagerefinanceloans. com
Alex Jones Show Live welcomes back to the show Texas Congressman and former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. Paul’s bill, HR 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, has gained tremendous momentum since it was introduced in the House last February. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author of Obama – The Postmodern Coup who appears in Alex’s The Obama Deception, makes an appearance. Alex also takes on the important issues of the day and takes your calls. www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.com prisonplanet.tv jonesreport.com www.infowars.net www.truthnews.us ————————————– PETITION FOR OBAMA www.wnd.com
Alex Jones Show Live welcomes back to the show Texas Congressman and former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. Paul’s bill, HR 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, has gained tremendous momentum since it was introduced in the House last February. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author of Obama – The Postmodern Coup who appears in Alex’s The Obama Deception, makes an appearance. Alex also takes on the important issues of the day and takes your calls. www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.com prisonplanet.tv jonesreport.com www.infowars.net www.truthnews.us ————————————– PETITION FOR OBAMA www.wnd.com
