TAXPAYERS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR IMMIGRANT MEDICALS

By Betty Freauf
March 5, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

Many of us recognize what President Barack Obama is up to when he wants health care for all including illegal immigrants. He wants to expand the Democrat voter base and he wants to control every facet of our life. A March 2nd AP article said Obama increased the IRS budget by 10 percent since he took office, to nearly $12.5 billion. The president’s budget proposal for 2012 would increase IRS spending by an additional nine percent but the Republicans viewed the IRS as an ideal target in their promise to reduce government spending, in part because the agency would play a big role in implementing Obama’s new health care law with the help of 5,100 additional workers Obama wants to hire. In the late 1990s, Congress held hearings so taxpayers could relate horror stories about dealing with IRS tax collectors. The hearings resulted in a 1998 law that reorganized the IRS and largely reined it in, guaranteeing taxpayers rights and due process when the IRS files property liens, seizes bank accounts or garnishes wages.

Our government has grown so big and so out of control that nobody truly remembers what happened in the past and generally no one cares to do any investigating or researching. That’s why I enjoy Glenn Beck on FOX and his excellent team of researchers. Our Founders gave the media the First Amendment and expected them to be the watchdogs but they went to college to become journalists and in general jumped in bed with the bureaucrats and now they are lapdogs. And if you think I’m exaggerating, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal admitted he was a “closet socialistâ€