More Tea Party Hypocrisy: Angle Gets Government Healthcare

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More Tea Party hypocrisy. We have already had Christine O'Donnell campaigning in Delaware for fiscal prudence while not paying her bills. And Joe Miller telling voters in Alaska to get Washington off their backs, after he took federal farm subsidies. And now we have Sharron Angle, urging us all to take up arms and abolish federal health and retirement programs--while she is covered, thank you very much, by oh-so-generous federal health insurance.

It seems that Ted Angle, the spouse of the Nevada Senate candidate, doesn't share her revulsion for government. In fact, he was a federal employee for many years. As such he has retired with the federal bureaucracy's equivalent of Social Security--a pension through the Civil Service Retirement System--and with continued healthcare coverage via (wait for it) the Federal Employee Health Program.

According to Angle's spokeswoman, "his health insurance plan … also covers Sharron."

I know several federal employees. The Federal Employee Health Program is a good deal. No doubt Ted earned it, and his federal pension, by working hard for we the taxpayers.

I have no gripe with Sharron Angle getting good healthcare insurance from the U.S. government, only that she wants to deny it to the rest of us.

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Thank you for correcting my spelling. Clearly, you are superior to me in every respect and I bow to your spelling godliness. Your argument, however is dumb. But you spelled everything right. Good for you. Must have paid for your own education. Should have paid more attention in "Logic 101"

B Ritchie of PA 5:06PM October 07, 2010

Its incumbent open-season, that all those who oppose immigration enforcement must be discarded, so legitimate lawmakers can take their places. Immigration law comes down to the main matter and that's money? It's the costs that American taxpayers have to bear, to subsidize anybody who slips past the border agents, or deceives the federal inspector at the airport. Costs to support illegal immigrants is substantial and the politicians, open border lobbyists don't want the true costs to be revealed to the American public. If the--REAL--fences had been constructed the full length of the US/Mexican border, Arizona would never have needed to enforce its own immigration laws. The whole cheap labor invasion has always been about money, throughout the most highlighted 30 years. Both parties must be held responsible, for this invasion.

Francis of IN 7:34PM October 01, 2010

But nothing can be done about those who already have violated our laws, except mass deportation or the permanent operation of verifying the legal status of labor, by using highly upgraded E-Verify. The (FAIR) Federation for American Immigration Reform (an activist group concerned in reducing immigration to the U.S.), used the U.S. INS (ICE is the new merged version) statistics on how many illegal immigrants have illegally settled in each state. The U.S. Dept of Education's current overheads per pupil by state, and found the estimated cost of educating illegal immigrants students and U.S. citizen children of illegal immigrants in 2004 was $29.6 billion. Seven years later the amount appropriated as currently cannot even be imagined? In 2008, about 344,000 babies were born to parents of whom at least one was an illegal immigrant. These babies were given legal status, under the Fourteenth Amendment , as American citizens.

These offspring represented eight percent of the 4.3 million births in the United States that year. These figures are just estimates of illegal immigration to the United States, and there is very little data on the dollar value placed on taxpayers. However, one thing is a 100 percent for sure the cost of supporting foreign nationals and their broods, far outweighs what they pay in taxes or any other expenditure and is still spiraling upwards. This is why all incumbents must not be given a second chance, beginning with Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV). Reid like all the others has turned a blind eye to taxpayers in subsidizing millions of illegal aliens. His own state of Nevada as with California is overwhelmed with illegal aliens and the taxpayers have grave concerns for their sinking economies. We need representation of new Governors, Mayors and elected officials, who are opposed to any kind of Amnesty, such as the Dream act or the subtle description of a path to citizenship.

I’m not overly fond of Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina but she at least won’t sacrifice California taxpayers as Jerry Brown to adjoin with other pro amnesty entities. The majority of Democrats are pro-amnesty, although a few Republicans are corrupted by special interest groups to attain the goal of allowing--ALL-to stay. I repeat that business owners in the majority find no responsibility in paying for health care, education or a mixture of other freebies. Barbara Boxer of California is a strong advocate for Amnesty, so is Speaker Nancy Pelosi and many others, who if are returned to their Washington seat will aggressively seek another negative reform. This retaliation against all incumbents is the measure of proof that they have ignored the interests of all Americans, who have not been indoctrinated by the lying of the Liberal media or the open border fanatics. American voter’s message is clear-- that it’s time for you to adjourn and go back to a private job or just retire on your copious benefits.

Francis of IN 7:33PM October 01, 2010

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