Lawmakers pushing for immigration reform say job losses and a sluggish economy should not deter legislation legalizing illegal immigrants.

A coalition of Democrats say fixing the immigration system can help American workers as well.

OBAMA, SEIU, ACORN Different names, same substance

Black, Hispanic, Asian, progressive and other Democrats unveiled the kind of immigration reform they want at a Capitol Hill news conference Tuesday.

They are proposing that illegal immigrants register with the government, pay a $500 fine for each adult, learn English, pass background checks and meet other requirements. They then are eligible for a six-year visa and when that is done a green card.

In reference to the bad economy, “It certainly will confuse the debate a lot more, but at the end of the day what we have to understand is fixing this system will be good for

American workers,” said Eliseo Medina, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, (ACORN) which is one of the major advocates for legalizing illegal immigrant workers.  They are also on the books for having spent more time in the White House with the Obama Administration than any other group.

Conservative lawmakers are not buying into the propaganda being pushed by the liberals, ACORN and other leftist advocacy groups.  “With 15 million Americans out of work, it’s hard to believe that anyone would give amnesty to 12 million illegal immigrants,” said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. “Even the open-borders crowd agrees that illegal immigrants take jobs from American workers, particularly poor and disadvantaged citizens and legal immigrants. This is exactly why we need to oppose amnesty.”

One million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report released today. 

One million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report released today. The Patients Association said the dossier proves that while the scale of the scandal at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust – where up to 1,200 people died through failings in urgent care – was a one off, there are repeated examples they have uncovered of the same appalling standards throughout the NHS.

While the criticisms cover all aspects of hospital care, the treatment and attitude of nurses stands out as a repeated theme across almost all of the cases. They have called on Government and the Care Quality Commission to conduct an urgent review of standards of basic hospital care and to enforce stricter supervision and regulation.

Claire Rayner, President of the Patients Association and a former nurse, said:“For far too long now, the Patients Association has been receiving calls on our helpline from people wanting to talk about the dreadful, neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel treatment their elderly relatives had experienced at the hands of NHS nurses.

“I am sickened by what has happened to some part of my profession of which I was so proud.  “These bad, cruel nurses may be – probably are – a tiny proportion of the nursing work force, but even if they are only one or two percent of the whole they should be identified and struck off the Register.”

The charity has published a selection of personal accounts from hundreds of relatives of patients, most of whom died, following their care in NHS hospitals.  They cite patient surveys which show the vast majority of patients highly rate their NHS care – but, with some ten million treated a year, even a small percentage means hundreds of thousands have suffered.

Ms Rayner said it was by “sad coincidence” that she trained as a nurse with one of the patients who had “suffered so much”.  She went on: “I know that she, like me, was horrified by the appalling care she had before she died.

“We both came from a generation of nurses who were trained at the bedside and in whom the core values of nursing were deeply inculcated.”

Katherine Murphy, Director of the Patients Association, said “Whilst Mid Staffordshire may have been an anomaly in terms of scale the PA knew the kinds of appalling treatment given there could be found across the NHS. This report removes any doubt and makes this clear to all. Two of the accounts come from Stafford, and they sadly fail to stand out from the others.

“These accounts tell the story of the two percent of patients that consistently rate their care as poor (in NHS patient surveys).  “If this was extrapolated to the whole of the NHS from 2002 to 2008 it would equate to over one million patients. Very often these are the most vulnerable elderly and terminally ill patients. It’s a sad indictment of the care they receive.” The Patients Association said one hospital had threatened it with legal action if it chose to publish the material.

• Pamela Goddard, a piano teacher from Bletchingley, in Surrey, was 82 and suffering with cancer but was left in her own excrement and her condition deteriorated due to her bed sores.
• Florence Weston, from Sedgley in the West Midlands, died aged 85 and had to remain without food or water for several days as her hip operation was repeated cancelled.

The charity released the dossier to highlight the poor care which a minority of patients in the NHS are subjected to.Ms Murphy said the numbers rating care as poor came despite investment in the NHS doubling and the number of frontline nurses increasing by more than a quarter since 1996.

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Below is an individuals response to the report.  By the way a fairly typical response.  There is some good in the report but the system overall is filled with rude, uncaring, individuals that seemingly cannot be fired.  Imagine what your health care will look like once the health care workers are organized by one of the unions in the ACORN umbrella.  Imagine receiving care from some one that cannot be fired regardless of their lack of care giving skills

My husband spent almost six weeks at the beginning of the year in London’s Homerton Hospital. The clinical care he received, when he finally received it, was excellent. I remain to this day astonished and upset by the nursing ‘care’ however. The ward was quite dirty and, with only a couple of notable exceptions,the staff was scruffy, indifferent, aggressive and rude. An elderly man in my husband’s ward had had a stroke and had difficulty in communicating. He had no visitors to keep an eye on his care. Seeing the way he was routinely shouted at, ignored, humiliated and made the object of jokes and derision by the ‘nurses’is something I’ll never forget. It made me terrified to be old and alone in a British hospital. The complete absence of any kind of compassion, let alone basic professionalism, was horrifying.

The members of the Obama administration showed video clips of the confrontational town halls that have dominated the media coverage, and told senators to do more prep work than usual for their public meetings by making sure their own supporters turn out, senators and aides said.  And they screened TV ads and reviewed the various campaigns by critics of the Democratic plan.

“If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,” Messina said, according to an official who attended the meeting.  Jim Messina Is deputy chief of staff to the Obama administration

It is very interesting that the Democrats are organizing their paid goons to attack the tea party protester.  They have the audacity to accuse the tea party people and others who are speaking out against more spending as being puppets of some hidden power.    In the meantime Peolsi and Boxer is referring to the Tea Party protesters as Nazis carrying swastika.

I do find it strange that the Democrats are the ones that keep mentioning the Nazis and swastikas.  Surely they realize that it was the “National Socialist Party” that became the Nazis and used the swastika as their emblem.  Surely they know it was that party’s policies (that mirror the Democrats policies of today) that led to the jailing of those that opposed them.  Surely they know…………….hmmmm, now that I think about it, no, I guess they don’t know.  And they probably don’t see the irony of the current political party in power calling the protesters Nazis.

I guess the Democrats goons and thugs must have gotten the message loud and clear in St. Louis, see below

St. Louis County police say six people were arrested. Two of those were arrested on suspicion of assault, one of resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances. Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don’t tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was waiting to be treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face that he suffered in the attack. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack started.

“It just seems there’s no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said.

The Food and Drug Administration—which has struggled to fulfill its mission of regulating food, drugs and other consumer goods that make up nearly a quarter of the U.S. economy—does not have the expertise to forecast its own budget needs, according to congressional investigators.
While many lawmakers and consumer advocates have long complained that the agency lacks the staff and equipment to accomplish its mission, the Government Accountability Office says the agency doesn’t even have “the data to develop a complete and reliable estimate of the resources it needs.”
The GAO places some of the blame on the FDA’s lopsided budget—which dedicates significant resources to approving new products, but far less to tracking their safety once they’ve reached the market.

FDA officials acknowledged the problems uncovered by the GAO, saying they are working to get a better picture of the agency’s spending and how much additional funding it needs.

“We have to be able to talk about the funds we need, and how we’re using the money, with more detail than FDA has in the past,” said Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, the agency’s deputy commissioner.

The GAO report, due out Monday, is the latest in a series to document the problems facing the agency. The FDA has spent the last few years careening from one public health crisis to the next. They have included the recall of the painkiller Vioxx—which was linked to heart attacks, contaminated blood thinners imported from China, and an investigation into a salmonella outbreak that dragged on for weeks before peppers were identified as the culprit.

The agency’s product review program is largely funded by user fees from drug and medical device companies, while the company’s safety inspections are funded by taxpayer dollars. Over the last 10 years, funding from private companies increased nearly 270 percent, while funds from the U.S. government grew less than 70 percent.

Currently, the federal government pays for just over 30 percent of the FDA’s medical products budget. As a result, the FDA is approving more new products but is spending far less to make sure they are being used safely.

“The approval of new products has increasingly become the beneficiary of the agency’s budget,” according to the GAO report.

Between 2004 and 2008 the agency failed to inspect all U.S. drug manufacturing plants every two years, as required by law. In other areas, such as reviewing reports of negative drug side effects, the FDA could not even say how much money and manpower it spent.

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Hang on America this is part of the Obama Heath Care Plan.