Oh Really? What next?

Well then...we're wondering if you've had enough lies out of this government yet. In fact, there has been so many that we just want to focus on some of the more recent blatant disgusting [no misspeaking!] lies that is, if you don't mind.

Obama Says Health Care Reform Won't Cover Illegal Aliens

During his speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening, Pres. Barack Obama directly addressed the issue of health care coverage for illegal aliens. The President said his proposal would not extend benefits to individuals in the country illegally. A Rasmussen poll released on September 7 shows that 83% of Americans favor requiring those who apply for government-sponsored, tax-payer funded health care subsidies to prove that they are U.S. citizens. A similar poll conducted in June showed that 80% of Americans were in favor of requiring proof of citizenship.

Reality of the Issue

House passed by a slim 220-215 margin a health care reform bill (H.R. 3962) that excludes the restrictions necessary to prevent illegal aliens from accessing benefits. This set up a potential conference committee battle since President Obama and the Senate support tighter restrictions.

The House bill would allow illegal aliens to use the new health care "exchange" and would not require verification to keep illegal aliens out of the other parts of the proposed federal health care system.

Abortion amendment for no federal funded abortion in health care

The abortion amendment was tacked on to the House health care bill and was a key factor in securing the votes of moderate Democrats before the bill was approved by a narrow margin last weekend. The amendment, authored by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-MI., went beyond preventing the proposed government-run plan from covering abortion to restrict federal subsidies from going toward private plans that offer abortion coverage.

Reality: Obama Will Try to Strip Abortion Language from Health Care Bill

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod suggested Sunday that President Obama will intervene to make sure a controversial amendment restricting federal funding for abortion coverage is stripped from final health care reform legislation.

In doing so, the president would be heeding the call of abortion rights supporters like Planned Parenthood that have called the White House their "strongest weapon" in keeping such restrictions out of the bill.

Recovery.gov announces new or saved jobs

It's no secret that Recovery.gov is laden with errors on stimulus money data, but this is downright ridiculous.

The nonexistent 15th congressional district of Arizona managed to "create or save 30 jobs" with $761k in stimulus funds. So who's to blame? Recovery.gov believes it is "human error."

Rep. David Obey, D-WS, who chairs the powerful House appropriations Committee stated earlier that, "The inaccuracies on recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous and the Administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes."

Reality:

Misspeaking again fellows? Outright telling lies again, people? "We report what the recipients submit to us," said Ed Pound, Communications Director for the Board; however what about checking your sources?

We could continue but for now we feel we should stop. Please critically think about these three issues and let's all ask ourselves, "Is this the kind of 'Change' we were led to believe was going to happen?"