Posted on 9/25/2011, 5:20:12 AM by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
I just read the text of Rick Perry’s remarks to the Border Summit on Aug, 21st 2001. How in the hell is this stuff slipping through the cracks without a single mention in the conservative press? If this had been Obama, Sean Hannity would have been talking about it 24/7 during the last presidential campaign.
There are many passages in the speech that are of great concern to me, but this one really caught my attention.
…Legislation authored by border legislators Pat Haggerty and Eddie Lucio establishes an important study that will look at the feasibility of bi-national health insurance. This study recognizes that the Mexican and U.S. sides of the border compose one region, and we must address health care problems throughout that region. That’s why I am also excited that Texas Secretary of State Henry Cuellar is working on an initiative that could extend the benefits of telemedicine to individuals living on the Mexican side of the border….
Does Rick Perry still support an international health insurance program such as the one he laid out in his speech that day? Will someone in the media please ask him before it’s too late?
You can read the entire text of Perry’s speech HERE.
With all respect to the reasonable Perry supporters who've provided good info on him, this is freaking insane. How can I possibly support someone this nuts?
HOLY MOLY!!
How has this not been reported indeed!?
I am speechless...all I want to do is curse ****!
I just read the text of Rick Perry’s remarks to the Border Summit on Aug, 21st 2001. How in the hell is this stuff slipping through the cracks without a single mention in the conservative press? If this had been Obama, Sean Hannity would have been talking about it 24/7 during the last presidential campaign.
There are many passages in the speech that are of great concern to me, but this one really caught my attention.
…Legislation authored by border legislators Pat Haggerty and Eddie Lucio establishes an important study that will look at the feasibility of bi-national health insurance. This study recognizes that the Mexican and U.S. sides of the border compose one region, and we must address health care problems throughout that region. That’s why I am also excited that Texas Secretary of State Henry Cuellar is working on an initiative that could extend the benefits of telemedicine to individuals living on the Mexican side of the border….
Does Rick Perry still support an international health insurance program such as the one he laid out in his speech that day? Will someone in the media please ask him before it’s too late?
You can read the entire text of Perry’s speech HERE.
I would like to offer a personal kick in the (you know) to the people who called me stupid for comparing him to LBJ.
Rick Perry is a liberal
Yeahhhhh, I think he is taking about preventative measures that could be taken in Mexico to prevent disease, such as TB, spreading to Texas.
Ricardo the Pan National Socalist RINO.
AGAIN, since WHEN did selling telemedicine across our border become a bi-national health program???? Huh? Huh? Please tell me how it morphed into existence?
We sell EVERYTHING ACROSS THAT BORDER.
The masa and flour Mexican nationals use to make their tamales and tortillas is produced by freaking General Mills and Pillsbury. Are you idiots going to start whining now that we have a bi-national corn and wheat flower program and screech to shut down that $billions in trade?
And again, you forget that WE TEXANS sponsored the Texas Dream Act and pushed it through. Because WE who live in our state know it is the best outcome. Your continued persecution of Rick Perry for it is nothing more or less than ignorance.
There seems to be some sort of incestuous relationship between Texas and Mexico that simply does not translate well to the rest of America. Ricky LaRaza will never be able to make a persuasive case for some of these political decisions such as bi-national health insurance or in-state tuition for illegals (and, as I understand, state level higher education grants). They are simply indefensible to most conservatives nationally.
Someone should ping Cincinatus’ Wife or whatever her tag is.
Hahahahahahaha
I bet these last few days have been a NIGHTMARE for you Perrybots.
Stew in it. The truth hurts.
Ok, well, you keep that down there then, kthx.
Gee, and I was for him, before I was against him. Thank goodness for our mania to vet our candidates now.
PINGGGGGGGGG
I don’t know what proportion of the Mexican-US business in that area comprises illegales, but there are enough green card bearers that lurk just south of the border to make Perry’s statement true just by themselves. If a health care treaty could be reached that covered illegales too (and it’s not clear that this is what Perry had in mind), then there might be a fighting chance of getting Mexico to pay for them.
He is of a piece with Bush in that the North American Union is the ultimate goal, but because it is not politically acceptable as a label, they are doing it piecemeal...combine drugs first, banking next, then combine trade, then combine labor, then combine transportation, insurance and all the rest.
I am waiting for the Amero to be used after this economic crises is first allowed to fester for a while, so that the people demand change. They will then propose this as a solution and we will think it is great, that finally someone is doing something.
We need a change in direction now, and that does not include Perry.
OMG I can’t believe we’re on this sh*t again. Does nobody read any old threads around here. I guess every tool that suddenly desides to start a Perry attack thinks they’re finding all this junk for the first time.
As long as we see small, all problems and plans are small. If we see big, the problems and plans are big.
I certainly wasn’t one of ‘em. He sure is looking more and more like LBJ, another of those sorts who bellows about his butt-kicking Texas-ness while he’s soft on the isses he most needs to kick butt about.
We really have to refine our political terms these days. I often see these “conservative on gun rights and taxes, but liberal on ‘social issues’” types labelled Conservatives.
We should re-evaluate every politician on an ongoing basis. No one deserves that label just because they say so.
(And can we put to rest this idea that just because someone is from a ‘red state’ that they’re automatically rootin’ tootin’ true-blue conservative, please?)
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