Saturday, August 10, 2013

Gutierrez: 40-50 House Republicans will back immigration reform



"Our government owes a great debt to Greece," President Obama told Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras yesterday. Ironic, of course, since Greece owes a great debt to just about everybody else.
Obama was actually trying to praise the contributions of Greek Americans when he employed the ironic turn of a phrase in his meeting with Samaras in the White House Oval Office:
Samaras wasn't above making ironic comments, either - blaming his region's problems on illegal immigration:
"I believe that the problems have to do with illegal immigration, internal turbulence in various countries, and even, unfortunately, the problem of terrorism."
And, in an interesting word choice, he called for the U.S. and Europe to "liberalize" their economic potential:
Europe and the U.S. together in this trade account, as you've said before, more than 50 percent of the world GDP. And therefore, it's important, especially for Europe, to liberalize that potential and create new jobs, because I think jobs for everyone is the number-one priority, especially to our youth, because everything we are doing has to do with our younger generation.
- See more at: http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/craig-bannister/ironies-abound-comments-obama-and-greek-prime-minister#sthash.orzIaANV.dpuf

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