It’s not just an old song from “West Side Story” anymore.
“Everything free in America” is now the Democrats’ official government policy – at least if you’re an illegal alien newly arrived here from the Third World for your lifetime all-expenses-paid vacation on the stupid gringos.
The huddled masses have gone from yearning to breathe free to demanding to live free, forever.
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And every ISIS terrorist and MS-13 gangbanger swarming into Massachusetts isn’t just grabbing free suites in the flophouses that were once hotels, not to mention the $64 worth of free meals every day that are dominating headlines right now.
The foreign freeloaders are also getting free medical care. And free dental care. All the stuff that costs you an arm and a leg, and keeps you up at night worrying about how you’re going to pay for it going forward.
Illegal aliens have no such problems. Repeat after me: Everything free in America.
You, on the other hand, as a taxpaying, productive US citizen, are expected to take care of yourself. You are responsible for your own health care – which includes traveling to a doctor or dentist’s office, a health clinic, a hospital, a pharmacy.
Occasionally, when you’re trying to get treatment, you end up stuck on hold on the telephone waiting to battle it out with a supercilious insurance-company bureaucrat.
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If you’re a military veteran, chances are that more than once you’ve gotten ensnared in red tape, or gotten a run-around, from the Veterans Administration.
Many Americans suffer through rotten jobs, or continue working long after the usual retirement age, just to keep decent health insurance for as long as they can.
And even if you somehow manage not to lose your health insurance, you’re always nervous about your employer suddenly changing providers, reducing coverage, nickel and diming you, increasing the co-pays etc.
But if you’re an illegal alien…. the health-care professionals come to you!
Because everything free in America!
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These photos were taken Wednesday at the Holiday Inn in Marlboro. The truck from the UMass Memorial Health Care arrives every week, and it’s open from 9 to 2:30.
As long as you’re an illegal alien.
For years, I’ve been saying, “I ask for no special favors. Just treat me like an illegal alien.”
That was a joke, sort of. Now it’s absolutely true.
So many questions about this hand-out: Why do all these “migrants” seem to be wearing better clothes, complete with brand-new sneakers and warm winter jackets, than the average working-class American who’s paying for the illegals’ free stuff?
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Why does the sign even include anything in English – “Medical and Dental Service Here Today” – as if any of the indigents can read those words.
In addition to the required Spanish, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to welcome the “migrants” in Haitian-Creole, Chinese, Arabic, Swahili etc.?
Another question: if you’re a virtue-signaling trust-funder living in a $5 million mansion in Brookline or Dover and you take in a family of next-generation Tsarnaev terrorists, will the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile visit your gated estate, too?
And does that “Hate Has No Home Here” sign in your front yard entitle you to free physicals, CAT scans and prescriptions for unlimited Class B controlled substances?
I do know one thing. Providing free everything for millions of surly drifters from the Third World is getting expensive. Last July, I wrote about the food contract for the Biden-Healey flophouse in Taunton. Then the three meals a day cost $37 a day for each undocumented Democrat.
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Now, seven months later, the new food contracts are costing $64 a day. Even by Bidenomics standards, that’s ridiculous.
New Englanders aren’t the only ones noticing how the Democrats are trying to destroy America. In Chicago this week, a City Council hearing went out of control as angry Americans demanded an end to Barack Obama’s fundamental transformation of America.
Here’s what one woman (of color) said:
“All this asylum-seeking lie, all this about ‘refugees.’ No, no, no! What’s happening is they’re emptying out the dregs of their jails to the United States and into our communities, junking up our country.”
There was another story out of Chicago yesterday, that some of the Venezuelan thugs strangling straphangers on the CTA now say they want to get deported back to Caracas. They told cops they’d rather be living in their native Third World hellhole rather than in their adopted Third World hellhole, the United States of America.
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One illegal thug was quoted as saying he would “do whatever it takes” to get out of Chicago.
Massachusetts should only be so fortunate with our illegals. But nobody’s leaving here. Why should they?
Everything free in America!
The mobile clinic was busy all day. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)Marlborough, MA – People use a mobile health clinic to receive medical care outside a migrant shelter. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)Marlborough, MA – People use a mobile health clinic to receive medical care outside a migrant shelter. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)Marlborough, MA – People use a mobile health clinic to receive medical care outside a migrant shelter. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)
Massachusetts families are stuck in the Middle East amid the war in Iran, and Democratic Sen. Ed Markey says the State Department needs to do more to get them home.
The Trump administration is telling Americans to leave the region, and families would love to, but they haven’t been able to get out.
Stacey Schuhwerk of Hingham has been sheltering in place in a Doha hotel since Saturday.
“We hear the missiles outside,” she said. “We can see them.”
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The Hingham mother and her son are among nearly 1,600 Americans trapped in the Middle East with no way to get home.
“Airspace is shut down. There’s no planes,” said Schuhwerk. “There’s no way to leave.”
Flights between Boston and the Middle East are canceled or delayed as travelers express anxiety over the conflict.
At first, U.S. officials told people to shelter in place and register with the State Department — something Schuhwerk did days ago.
“There’s no help there. The last time we called was 20 minutes ago, and they continue to say that ‘We don’t know anything about any plans for government help to get people out,’” she said.
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Embassies and consulates across the region — including the U.S. Embassy in Israel — have now suspended services, saying they simply can’t get Americans out.
“They did not have a plan to conduct this war, and they clearly did not have a plan as to how to evacuate innocent families,” Markey said.
The senator says his office is hearing from Massachusetts families, and he’s pressuring the Trump administration to come up with an evacuation plan fast.
“We are going to apply that pressure on the State Department until every American who wants to leave that region is out,” he said.
Back in Doha, Schuhwerk keeps watching the war outside her window.
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“The talk here is ‘How much defensive ammunition’s left?’ Good question, you know, because the missiles aren’t stopping,” she said. “So how long are we going to be safe here?”
With no clear end to this conflict, she’s worried she could be stuck there for weeks.
Happy Tuesday! While today started off dry, we’re already looking at snow out there across the area. While this event will primarily stay as rain on the Cape and islands, it will be an icy mix of snow, ice and rain for the rest of us.
The rain/snow line will continue to advance from the south to the north as the evening progresses. Before the changeover, there will be a quick coating to 2 inches for most of our area.
The threshold between the snow and rain will feature sleet and freezing rain, leading to that icing.
For the rest of the night, there will primarily be rain with continued pockets of freezing rain, leading to increasing spotty ice accretion. Be extremely careful on roads, especially since switching between rain and freezing rain can wash off any road salt.
The rain and freezing rain will exit by 6 a.m. Wednesday, but temperatures will still be close to freezing during the morning commute, so watch out for some spotty black ice.
The rest of Wednesday will be really nice! Highs will warm up to the mid 50s with the help of ample sun.
Thursday we start off in the mid 20s and top off in the mid 40s. We’ll be partly sunny with another chance for some wintry weather Thursday night. This primarily looks like some rain and freezing rain, rather than the triple threat with snow too. We’ll keep an eye on that for you.
That will continue into Friday morning. The rest of Friday: cloudy with a chance for a spot shower and highs cooler again in the upper 30s. Saturday will be dry, breezy and cloudy but gorgeous near 50 degrees! There’s a chance for some rain showers Saturday night. Don’t forget to set your clocks forward an hour before you to go bed!
Sunday we start the day mild in the 40s and make it all the way into the upper 50s with more sun. Monday and Tuesday both look bright and in the 60s! Stay tuned.
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