They are vexing problems, but Republicans, led by Sen. Kelly Ayotte, came up with a proposal to solve them. The only difficulty was, the solution -- finding billions to pay for the restored pensions and unemployment insurance -- involved cracking down on a tax credit program in which illegal immigrants have fraudulently collected billions of dollars in improper payments. Stop the fraud, Ayotte argued, and then use the money saved to pay for pensions and unemployment insurance. It seemed like an elegant solution.
Except that Democrats would have none of it. Putting an end to the fraudulent collection of tax credits by illegal immigrants would hurt the most vulnerable, they argued. "This idea of going after children is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard," Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer said in floor debate Thursday. "I am shocked — I am shocked. You're going to hurt children. You're going to take away food out of their mouths."
Ayotte's plan was in the form of an amendment to the Democratic bill to extend unemployment insurance. Ayotte broke with most of her Republican colleagues by voting to go forward with the bill; she did so specifically for the purpose of proposing her amendment. But Majority Leader Harry Reid slammed the door on the amendment and would not allow it to be considered.
The Ayotte amendment was remarkably simple. It would have required anyone collecting benefits from a program known as the Additional Child Tax Credit to supply a Social Security number in order to collect the money. An information sheet released by Ayotte's office noted a report from the Treasury Department inspector general explaining fraud in the ACTC program:..................."
The American poor and destitute have let Obama down. They have accepted his doles and in the process degenerated into income inequality.
Basic inequality yields economic inequality.
Gotta love Ted Cruz for yelling about the economic elephant in the room that the regime-stream media is trying so desperately hard to ignore. Aka obama should be in prison or surrounded by cold earth for all the deliberate harm he has inflicted upon America.
Hopefully Ted Cruz will soon start loudly proclaiming that the identity-fraud-in-chief has no eligibility clothes as well. Go Ted.
Let me guess - the “promise zones” just happen to be in Democrat controlled areas... and will receive $ Billions of government subsidies.
“If you like your poverty, and even if you don’t, you can keep your poverty, in my new 0bamazones. I promise.”
so is he going to blame Bush again?
The socialists never keep their promises because they CAN’T.
They maintain the radical utopian statist dream in their minds though.
No matter the evidence against its workability.
It might be that they don’t even care if it ever works.
It’s a dream and they like that part.
And it’s a vehicle to perpetual power, they hope and plan and scheme.
If only people would ever GET THAT, CW, once and for all.
It’s like someone going back and back to a well, for water, that didn’t just “go dry” at some point, but there was never any water there.
God said in the OT, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”.
U.S. job growth weakest in three years, weather a factor Reuters By Lucia Mutikani | Reuters – 45 mins ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers hired the fewest workers in almost three years in December, but the setback was likely to be temporary amid signs that cold weather conditions might have had an impact. 
VIA: http://news.yahoo.com
Cruz should in my opinion, lose the talking points about Obamacare.
He needs to talk about American growth.
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Good for Ted. The GOP needs to be mocking that POS 24/7