You lie!” Republican Rep. Joe Wilson famously shouted at President Obama during a 2009 televised presidential address to a joint session of Congress.

The outburst, prompted by Obama pledging his health care reform bill would not benefit illegal immigrants, provoked outrage from liberals, not to mention a steely death-glare from then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

But now Wilson says time has proved him right.

In an appearance on Fox News’ America Live on Wednesday, Wilson said a recent award of $28 million to community health care centers around the country will no doubt benefit illegal immigrants, despite Obama’s pledge.

Department of Health and Human Services spokesmen have confirmed $8.5 million of the grant will go to centers serving migrant and seasonal farm workers, saying patients will not be asked about immigration status. The centers will offer primary care to all residents who come in.

“It is clearly providing money that should be going to American citizens to illegal immigrants,” Wilson said. “It’s even worse than I thought. They won’t even ask for status.” 

On his campaign website, Wilson wrote: “It is inevitable that they will serve illegal aliens. The president specifically promised the American people that ‘Obamacare’ would not cover those who are here illegally. He misled all of us.”

The Department of Health and Human Services shot back, saying the patients still must pay for care.

“By statute, health centers are required to provide primary health care to all residents of the health center’s service area without regard for ability to pay,” spokesman Chris Stenrud wrote in an email to Fox. “However, health centers do not provide free care. All health center patients are expected to contribute to the cost of their care.”

Where to begin… when the President spoke to the American people and told them that the health-care bill making its way through Congress would be paid for by premiums– he lied.  When he told the American people that the health-care bill would be deficit neutral– he lied (The Congressional Budget Office report says that it will add to the deficit in 2019).  The President lied when he said he wouldn’t raise taxes to pay for the health-care plan on the middle class.  The Senate bill includes a whole host of stealth taxes that specific targets the middle class and small businesses.  Now word comes from an article in the Washington Times that illegals will be covered under the health-care proposal.  He looks as if Congressman Joe Wilson was right all along, the President lied.

From the Washington Times:

Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama’s explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit.

The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to extend health care coverage to all employees. But the bills do not have exemptions to screen out illegal immigrants, who usually obtain jobs by using false identities and are indistinguishable from legal workers.

A rough estimate by the Center for Immigration Studies suggests that the practical effect of the mandates would be that about 1 million illegal immigrants could obtain health insurance coverage through their employers.

Democrats who wrote the House bill said that employer coverage for illegal immigrants is not intentional, but rather the outcome of people breaking the law.

“It’s possible an employee could deceive an employer with a fraudulent document, just as under current law, to gain employment, just as it’s possible for all sorts of criminal activity to occur, and why we have law enforcement,” said Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, who wrote the final House bill.

Republicans said that loopholes in the bill could allow coverage to just about any illegal immigrant who wants to cheat the system.

“This is a complete cover-all-the-gaps federal health insurance for illegals, whether it be under Medicaid, the refundable tax credit or whether it be under their employers who would not be able to verify their employers unless we fix E-Verify,” said Rep. Steve King of Iowa, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee.

How to deal with immigrants, both legal and illegal, remains one of the thorniest issues in the health care debate. In his address to a joint session of Congress in September, Mr. Obama specifically challenged Republicans who said his plans would extend coverage to illegal immigrants.

“This, too, is false — the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally,” Mr. Obama said.  Continued…

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One of the big stories of the day, following Obama’s speech, was over Congressman Joe Wilson calling Obama a liar.  Democrat were quick to show outrage and calling Wilson’s comment, “disrespectful”.  These Democrats seem to have short memories and fail to recall their heckling of President Bush during his 2006 State of the Union address.  Or, Nancy Pelosi calling Bush a moron, idiot, and liar.  Or, Harry Reid calling Bush a liar.  The list of disrespectful Democrats goes on.  Personally, I’m proud of Congressman Joe Wilson for playing by the “Democrats’ rules”.  It’s about time we become vocal.  It’s about time we start employing the same tactics that the Democrats use.

Liberal groups are now organizing and raising money for Congressman Joe Wilson’s opponent.  In 24 hours, they have raised $250K for Wilson’s opponent.  I call on my readers to help support Congressman Wilson’s campaign by contributing to this modern day Paul Revere.  You can donate by going to JoeWilsonForCongress.com.

I don’t know if any of you had the opportunity to catch Glenn Beck today, but his show was shocking.  In an undercover video, two ACORN women were shown giving instructions to undercover citizens on how to skirt tax laws.  But it doesn’t stop there.  The undercover citizens told these ACORN workers that they wanted to set up an undercover prostitution ring with illegal aliens, some which included 12-13 year old girls.  Rather than these ACORN activists alerting the police, they assisted by providing them information on how to file their taxes, to purchase a home to run the operation, and how not to report the activity.  Even more disturbing was the fact that these ACORN activist didn’t give second thought that these two individuals were going to use underaged girls.  Is there something wrong with this picture?  I believe so, and yet, Obama has praised this organization and has promised to have them work closely with his administration.  It’s high-time that all funding for ACORN be cut and that all ties to the government be severed.  ACORN is not improving the inner-city or the lives of its residents when they, not only allow, but help to bring illegal activity into it.

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