Tuesday, December 2, 2014

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But then what else would they have to whine about their own Republican Benghazi panel proved they were selling snake oil the entire time and quite a few drank it. The rights going thru severe buyers remorse after that fiasco of lies. You get the Congress you voted for America enjoy.

Hey, maybe we need yet another 15 investigations on Benghazi that would be sound spending of taxpayers funds I’m sure.

FTR’S RESPONSE: Good Grief Not Charlie, will you never tire of being wrong? The points that I made were as new as tomorrow. They are not the ruminations of an olde fart, but are the latest forecasts of Washington’s Congressional Budget Office.  You and I share the belief that immigration is a powerful force for good in our nation. We are a nation of immigrants. But, that immigration must be wisely regulated and controlled or it will and has become chaos. Our southern border must be sealed  first, and only then Congress must pass intelligent and humane laws to regulate immigration.

Obama is creating an economic disaster with his determination to grant amnesty to about 5 million illegal aliens. That disaster will impact each and every American. As I noted, it is forecast that the average individual granted amnesty will earn about $29,177. The CBO, not FTR, says that a person making that kind of money would pay negligible, if any, federal taxes, and receive around $10,000 in government benefits. Most will qualify for the earned income tax credit. That means that they will get cash money from the government even though they pay little or no taxes.

The previously mentioned $10k in benefits doesn’t include Obamacare, which they nearly certainly will be eligible for. Those in that income bracket will receive large federal subsidies to pay for Obamacare.

Obama’s executive order is primarily aimed at undocumented parents of U.S. citizens, which will probably mean that they are older than average. If so, they will certainly will gain access not only to Obamacare, but also to Social Security and especially Medicare. Social Security and Medicare are already teetering on the edge of insolvency. While you and I have paid into SS and Medicare for many decades before becoming eligible, the illegals who are granted amnesty will pay only a fraction of what you and I have paid in. That is unfair.

50% have less than a high school diploma, 31% live below the poverty line, 51% are unable to speak passable English, 35% are unemployed or not in the labor force.

Obama’s amnesty is a great deal for them, it’s a crappy deal for America.

Not Charlie is celebrating Obama’s putative amnesty. But he/she darn sure wouldn’t be so happy if a Republican President used executive orders, ala Obama, to ignore/circumvent statutes lawfully passed by Congress.

Imagine if the new Republican President in 2017 were to simply declare that he/she wouldn’t enforce the broad swath of Obamacare’s insurance regulations and mandates. Just imagine the hissy fit Not Charlie and the progressives/liberals/Democrats would pitch.

A POSTER WROTE: “FTR is picking what he chooses to respond to. I asked him how Obama’s executive order is any different than Reagan’s or H. W. Bush’s e executive order. No response.

So now I’ll asked (sic) if he was wrong about Benghazi, now that the Republican led House Committee has issued its report. Of course I could ask about the price of gasoline, the projected GDP growth for the next quarter, but I don’t want to overwhelm our word famous fiction writer.”

FTR’S RESPONSE: Of course I’m “picking what I choose to respond to.” And I will continue to do so. Now, I choose to explain why Obama’s putative amnesty executive order is worlds apart from previous executive orders concerning granting amnesty for illegal immigrants.

In 1986, faced with a large and growing population of illegal aliens, Congress passed legislation that created a new, time-limited form of immigration relief for certain aliens who, among other things, had to have come to the United States more than six years previously. This is the genesis of the much ballyhooed Reagan amnesty.

The law that Congress had passed had the unanticipated effect of splitting up freshly-legalized parents from their illegally-present minor children who did not qualify for relief. That presented President Reagan with a moral dilemma. Congress’ amnesty was large—just shy of 3 million people—and it had the unanticipated effect of splitting up freshly-legalized parents from their illegally-present minor children who did not qualify for relief.

What the left is not telling you is that the Reagan and Bush immigration orders looked nothing like Obama’s creation of a new, open-ended form of immigration rules. Obama’s executive order is a completely different animal from the Reagan/Bush orders.

Reagan, seeing this family unity problem that Congress had not anticipated or addressed when it, Congress, granted amnesty to millions of parents, Reagan issued an executive order to defer the removal of children of the people who had applied for immigration amnesty under Congress’ new law. He allowed those children to remain in the United States while their parents’ applications for amnesty were pending. A few years later, Bush 41 extended this bit of administrative grace to these same children plus certain spouses of the aliens who had actually been granted immigration amnesty under Congress’ new law.

Back then, Congress, though it had desired to grant amnesty, had not considered and not included the spouses and children. Importantly, nor had it excluded them. So Presidents Reagan and Bush 41 filled that statutory gap with their executive orders.

Get it? Reagan and Bush’s executive orders for amnesty simply fleshed out and repaired holes in laws/amnesty that Congress had already passed. Not so Obama, he is attempting to create new law, law that he does not have the Constitutional authority to create.

As to gas prices. They are declining as a result of the irrevocable law of supply and demand. The Democrats and Team Obama have done all in their power to keep energy prices high…they failed on gas.

As to Benghazi: We will all remember that the White House insisted for an extended period of time that the assault on the Consulate was nothing more than a demonstration caused by a video. Who will ever forget Susan Rice on the Sunday talk shows insisting that the episode was a demonstration that got out of hand? All facile lies for Team Obama.

The House report states: “Whatever the larger policy issues, the conclusion that ‘protests’ were fully ‘rooted in a video’ was incorrect, as were the underlying early intelligence estimates concerning the video.”

The White House knew the facts early on, and for political reasons attempted to hide the truth from America. Who will ever forget Ms. Clinton’s incredible angry outburst when she cried “what difference does it make”, while referring to the deaths of 4 Americans, she cared not if the deaths were caused by terrorists or protestors.

As to projected GDP growth: The CBO projects that it will be essentially flat, at about 3% from fourth quarter 2013 through fourth quarter 2014. Another source Link Forecast that GDP growth will remain under 2.68% until 2020.

By this time in recession recovery we should be seeing GDP growth in the 4-6% range.

Any questions?