Obama's aunt living ILLEGALLY in the U.S

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Registered: 09-03-2008
Obama's aunt living ILLEGALLY in the U.S
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Sat, 11-01-2008 - 9:28am

Obama's aunt, the one he mentions in his memoirs, is living illegally in the United States in PUBLIC HOUSING!


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Registered: 08-20-2008
Sat, 11-01-2008 - 9:00pm

"Another admission from the McCain campaign that their health care plan is nothing more than a bunch of right-wing platitudes thrown together without any real serious thought as to how to solve the health care crisis. From CNN:
Changing the tax treatment wouldn't hurt the employer-sponsored system and would allow more of the uninsured to buy their own coverage, . Also, his advisers say a McCain administration would keep an eye on the credit to make sure it didn't lag behind the cost of coverage, while also working to lower the rate of medical inflation.
Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn't abandon their company-sponsored plans, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior economic policy adviser.

"Why would they leave?" said Holtz-Eakin. "What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit."

Got that?

The entire premise of McCain's health care plan is that people can do better on the free market. That's why you get a tax credit. That's why you would be able to buy insurance across state lines. The market supposedly makes health insurance cheaper, makes your health insurance company offer better coverage, and makes buying the insurance you need easier. And things like tying health insurance to employment are anti-free market, which is why the McCain plan taxes employer health benefits to encourage people to get insurance on the individual, free-er market.

Of course, tying health care to employment is the way we've done things in America for generations, and it turns out it's also pretty popular. (Not to mention that insurance companies have to cover you through an employer health care plan, while they can deny you for pre-existing conditions on the individual market.) And so, in the face of political pressure, you have Douglas Holtz-Eakin admitting the truth.

Faced with the fact that destroying our employer-based health care system isn't exactly a priority for most Americans, he argues that the McCain plan wouldn't actually destroy the employer-based system. Why? Because the tax credit McCain is offering wouldn't buy a decent health care plan, even for the young and healthy!

Let's unpack this a little bit more. According to Holtz-Eakin, John McCain doesn't actually want to dismantle the employer-based health care system. But, McCain's plan would tax any health benefits you'd get through work. So, if Holtz-Eakin is right in saying you'd get better coverage through work than you'd get with the tax credit on the individual market (and he probably is), and if he's right in saying most workers won't drop their employer-based insurance for the individual market because they're getting a better deal at work, then John McCain is simply proposing a tax on your current health care benefits without giving you anything in return. That's the worst kind of tax increase.

Shorter Douglas Holtz-Eakin: John McCain's health care plan won't destroy the employer-based insurance system because McCain's plan doesn't work.

Remember John McCain: Less jobs, more war? Well now it's John McCain: More tax, less benefits."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-rosenbaum/mccain-campaign-our-healt_b_138539.html

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 11-01-2008 - 9:03pm

I invited every far flung relative to my wedding at my parents insistence to avoid "ruffling tail feathers" I recieve wedding invites and baby announcement from relatives that I otherwise don't communicate with.

Getting an invite to a big fancy formal occasion doesn't indicate the type of closeness where one would be privy to every detail of their life, and would have read all of their papers in regards to legal matters.

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Registered: 09-03-2008
Sat, 11-01-2008 - 9:15pm

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Who said anything about "FREE"?

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Registered: 08-27-2001
Sat, 11-01-2008 - 9:26pm

Sandy,


Just wanted to say that I appreciate that you can look at the situation in context and come to a non-partisan conclusion.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-12-2008
Sat, 11-01-2008 - 9:35pm

Low Income housing is indeed free for some people, and the ones that do pay a portion of the rent here pay about $50 a month.


As for heartless?

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-12-2008
Sat, 11-01-2008 - 9:42pm
But see I view that differently.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-12-2008
Sat, 11-01-2008 - 9:45pm
Well I know where my aunts and uncles live.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-12-2008
Sat, 11-01-2008 - 9:47pm

Well ced you are dead wrong and it is 100% true.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 11-01-2008 - 9:48pm

The article states that this is a non-criminal matter.

For all we know she could have appealed the "deportation" order and be here on some sort of temporary Visa. I suspect that there were many important facts deliberately left out to "sex up" the article at the 11th hour.

Anyway, I doubt you are privy to the minute details of every far flung relative in your extended family.

Do you lay awake at night, investigating every half sibling of any and all relatives, including relatives from previous marriages ?

This is a half sister of a father who abandoned Obama long ago. It is really reaching and grasping at straws to expect Obama to know every minute detail of her life, and expect him to "throw her under the bus" over a non-criminal administrative violation.

Was it McCain who turned Cindy in when she was stealing drugs from charity to support her habit ?

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Registered: 08-20-2008
Sat, 11-01-2008 - 9:50pm
at least until after nov 4!

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