HispanicVista Columnists
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Obama Fails Hispanics
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By
Raoul Lowery Contreras - September 25, 2009
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Obama Fails Hispanics
- By Raoul
Lowery Contreras
As of today, the Obama Administration, a skeleton organization due to lack of appointments, is a failure. This failure has profound and disastrous impacts on Hispanic America.
· We
are losing in
· Foreign countries were supposed to swoon over President Obama and his conciliatory foreign affairs thinking missing under Bush, they have stabbed us in the back or ignored us.
· Real needed health care reform is blocked by a rise of public opinion against Obamacare even as three simple things would clear up most problems.
· There is nothing happening on the comprehensive immigration reform front because President Obama is stuck in a rut.
· Obama has failed to fill over 200 high level appointments. Thus, his government isn’t operating on all cylinders.
· Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder are making noises that they will gut the CIA by investigations and punishments of officers who scared terrorists.
Stories are proliferating in the media that American
generals responsible for the Middle East conflicts are saying they don’t
have enough troops on the ground in
So-called allies like
Health reform has been stopped in its tracks around the country by people who simply don’t understand what it is Obama is trying to do and how he is trying to do it. Obama publishes a “Death Book” for use by the Veteran’s Administration (VA) and implements it then denies it exists. No wonder Sarah Palin hit the bull’s eye when she mentioned “Death Panels in Obamacare. Paying doctors to counsel people on their last legs is not a far leap from the VA program of asking people if they are worthy while sick or depressed.
The slick Obama campaign seems to have jumped the rails from Election Day to today because they can’t fill top positions in the government. Career people are filling in as temporary this or that and treading water. This kind of government simply doesn’t work.
As Obama is antagonizing his own left-wing George Soros financed base by talking compromise on health care and making cash or campaign like funding by Big Pharma and other health insurance financial beneficiaries of Obamacare, he and Holder are raising CIA prosecutions as cover for their own fight within the base and Obama.
On Immigration, Obama has made statements of support for immigration reform and New York Senator Schumer is saying an immigration bill will be introduced in September but he doesn’t say what it will contain. Neither does Obama.
So, how does this Obama series of policy failures injure Hispanics?
Simple, millions of Hispanics in the country illegally, many with homes, families and jobs continue to toil beneath the surface fearful of arrest and deportation even if they have been in country for decades. There is no Obama immigration reform plan on the table.
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On health reform, Obama has never laid out his plan for reform. Three simple things can reform health care: (1) health insurance sold across state lines; (2) Portability from job to job, and, (3) no prior condition restrictions (this can be done in a national assigned risk plan to which all insurance companies would have to contribute as in automobile insurance).
Obama failure directly impacts Hispanics and it shouldn’t. Hispanics must return to political independence if they are to shed Obama failures and their impacts on Hispanics.
- Contreras’ books are available at www.amazon.com
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