The celebrated, bipartisan-supported bill passed by the Senate this week to fight AIDS in Africa and other poor nations also lifts a longtime congressional ban on immigration and travel to the U.S. by people with the deadly disease.
Not surprisingly, mainstream media coverage has largely focused on all the positives of the new law, which creates a $50 billion program to treat and prevent AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in more than a dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. The money will support lifesaving antiretroviral treatment for nearly 2 million people infected with AIDS in those countries.
But buried in the legislation is an alarming provision that will end a ban, imposed by Congress in 1993, on immigration and travel to the U.S. by people with AIDS. The absurd provision allows the Department of Health and Human Services to decide whether to take AIDS off its list of communicable diseases, which is equally deranged since there is no disputing that it is in fact a communicable disease.
That is precisely why AIDS as well as HIV have been on the department’s list since 1987. To create legislation that would somehow allow the government agency in charge of protecting Americans’ health to make an exception for this particular communicable disease is outrageous and downright dangerous.
One senator, who is considering offering an amendment to eliminate that portions of the popular bill, cites a Congressional Budget Office estimate that the new infected immigrants entering the U.S. under the relaxed policy could cost the government more than $80 billion over a decade.
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Senate
This people are insane! They haven't done a thing FOR this country in years except to bankrupt us, either by allowing illegal aliens who have defunct our education system, health system and welfare system, allow big corporate bail-outs with our tax money, bash in our Constitution and laws and yet the citizens of this country let this go on? Give me a break.
Really?
You guys are hilarious. First, it's $80 million, billion. That will be made up by an increase in passport fees anyways. An argument has been made that it's going to 'increase health care costs' but that's BS, because all immigrants have to provide proof that they're NOT going to become a public charge and that they have their own private insurance.
HIV is communicable - so what? Aren't pretty much all diseases? And there's a lot of stuff out there way scarier/more dangerous.
I guess you think it's cool to share policies with such advanced and civilized countries such as Iran or Saudi Arabia. If you don't like it here, leave.
PS: congrats on the headline too - "immigrants with AIDS" - still don't know having HIV is different from suffering from AIDS? Welcome to 30 years ago. Hilarious.
The Real Agenda
Sadly, when all is considered, most of us with a modicum of brain power realize that our government is corrupt and has been quite busy putting into place an agenda. They want to bankrupt us, and fill our country with illegals and other domestic and international thugs...so that we are so pre-occupied with battles on every front…that we won't have time to notice and/or have the power and/or energy to go up against them and reclaim our country!
Putting things into context.....
I read an article, and followed several links today (July 19, 2008) on the Alipac.us web site about a "Secret Meeting" the House of Representatives had that took place on March 13th of this year. The "Secret Meeting" information was leaked by some of our politicians that still have a conscience.
First Pelosi (enemy of our precious America) requested the secret meeting
http://www.youtube/watch?v=ub-OhavzJQ&feature=related
What the House of Representatives talked about at the meeting (note pt.1-4)
http://www.youtube/watch?=kB-JGqDukbY&feature=related
Discussion of the meeting
http://nardsblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/march-13th-secret-closeddoor-meeti...
If any links don't work you might want to go to Alipac.us for details,or just write it the requested information on You Tube.
The content of the Secret Meeting was as follows:
Here is what was revealed:
1.The imminent collapse of the US economy by the end of 2008.
2.The imminent collapse of US government finances by the end of 2009.
3.The possibility of Civil War within the United States as a result of the collapse.
4.The advance of round-ups of “insurgent U.S. citizens ‘likely to go up against the government.
5.The detention of those rounded up at the Rex camps constructed around the United States.
6.The possibility of public retaliation against members of the congress for the collapse.
7.The location of safe facilities for members of the congress and their families where they can reside during the massive unrest.
8.The necessary and unavoidable merger of the US, Canada and Mexico establishing the North American Union.
9.The issuance of a new currency called the Amero for all three nations.
Source: When the genie is out of the bottle.
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