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Nice try.
I have a friend that closely follows politics and lives in Texas- he cannot believe how Perry is being hyped as being sooo conservative, he told me to really check him out because he thought we would be very disappointed when we know more about him...especially on the border issues.
He's talking about providing telemedicine (doctors consulting with Mexican doctors for sick Texans in Mexico), or to help diagnose outbreaks of diseases near the border before they erupt and infect our shores.
Oooooh! Scary stuff. How dare he be concerned about the border-related issues we're dealing with in our State. What a tyrant!
I'm soooo sick and tired of uninformed bloggers bashing Perry, in general, and Texas, in particular.
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I really don’t give a rat’s a**. I am NOT voting for Romney and Bachman is too weak over all. If Sarah doesn’t run, I will vote for Perry in the primary, if he wins the nomination then he gets my vote in the General.
THIS, I didn’t know. I’m actually shocked as to the extent of Perry’s disregard for American Sovereignty. And the US taxpayer can pay for Mexicans in Mexico, too - no problemo! Just goes to show that when the liberals get together for these summits, all manner of outrageousness ensues.
I knew he was bad, but this is above and beyond!
This was 10 years ago. He will be asked about it.
The Rick Perry patrol will tell you that Rick Perry is he only candidate. So it doesn’t matter what his actions are. All the negatives against him, whether they’re videos/audio/ or transcripts of his own words are simply untrue smear tactics.
Don’t be a troll just submit! He’s the only Democrat that we can run against Obama.
I tried to quickly research this, but whoever is spreading this crap clogged up google with it.....So I am assuming it is Ron Paul or Ronny spreading bs again
Reading the text, the bi-national sounds like a call for health insurance that would be good on either side of the border. It doesn’t say government .. and based on the people involved .. I believe it is private.
As you know, Mexico has no national health care system and most get health care through their work.
Based on the amount of effort in messing up Google, I would have to say this is definitely some kind of attack on Perry.
From the speech:
That is why it is wrong, and inherently detrimental to our relationship with Mexico for the U.S. Congress to pursue a protectionist policy that forbids Mexican trucks from U.S. roadways.
We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, “we don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there.” And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers. That’s why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate.
How many ways do American citizens have to say they absolutely do not want Mexican trucks rolling across the border? And yet, people like Perry keep trying to shove them down our throats.
And in what alternate universe is it just to allow illegal Mexicans to attend Texas colleges at a lower tuition than legal citizens from Louisiana or Oklahoma or Arkansas?
Perry thinks Texans will forget these unpopular policies, and that the rest of the country will never learn about them, or other dictatorial actions such as the Gardusil mandate.
Do not be swayed by Rick Perry's pretty face or phony posturing. Use your brains. Look at his record, read his words. I have, and I don't like what I see.
You have some kind of problem with people freely exchanging their money for health insurance, regardless of where they live?
Nice try, but no banana. How does selling telemedicine to customers across the border turn into an international health care plan? ROFL! WE SELL EVERYTHING ACROSS THAT BORDER! The freaking masa and flour the Mexican Nationals use to make their staple tamales and tortills IS PRODUCED BY FREAKING PILLSBURY AND GENERAL MILLS!!!!! We sell $57 BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF US GOODS TO MEXICO JUST FROM OUR STATE!
STOP THE MADNESS! STOP THE MADNESS! MY GOD, STOP THE MADNESS!
Insurance that's in effect in both countries. That's dangerous?
the Mexican and U.S. sides of the border compose one region
The same is often said of the Toronto-Buffalo region. Does that scare you, too?
If this sort of stuff bothers you, there is little hope.
Do you understand what he is saying? I see others in the thread are very disturbed by the idea that there can be a “community” that happens to exist on two sides of a national border, as if a border defines a wall of separation.
Texas used to be part of Mexico. There are comunities dating back generations that are separated by the borders chosen for Texas. There are people for who the closest hospitals are across the border, for whom the closest doctors are across the border. There are places where the closes neighbor is the guy with the grazing cattle next door, whose fence happens to be on the border.
If people in those communities would like to have the ability to cross the border to go to a doctor, and it requires a new law for so that health insurance can work across the border, it is absurd that the federal government would block that. People need freedom, and that includes the freedom to buy insurance that will allow them to go to a primary care physician even if they happen to live on the other side of the border.
When Sarah Palin was a young child, her family actually want to CANADA to get health care, because the Canadian facility happened to be the closest to where they were living. Do you think that was an evil thing? (Believe it or not, there were liberals attacking the Palin family for getting health care in Canada, and it was a big fight here).
Freepers leapt to defend Palin against the scurilous charges then, so I think most of them understand that people can cross a national border to get health care.
He is for the NAFTA Highway, so how can he NOT be for NAFTA?
In case you don’t remember, NAFTA is short for North American Trade Agreement, which includes the One Worlder’s North American regional governemtn which is comprised of Mexico, Anerica and Canada as one regi9on.