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April 16, 2006

Confused Americans for Truth - Common Nonsense About Illegal Immigration

by Ferdinand T Cat

The real problem with illegal immigration is not that it hurts the American worker. The American worker has survived decades of illegal immigration and is doing just fine. It is not security. That's a concern, but it applies equally to our northern border, and no one is asking to build a fence there.

No, the real problem is the mindset of the welfare state, as displayed prominently in the New York Times. According to the Times, if we stop giving free medical care to illegal aliens, it's going to raise the price of going to the hospital for the rest of us. See, the hospital has to treat them regardless of whether or not they can pay, so if the government isn't paying for them, the hospitals will have to raise their prices to compensate.

This makes a lot of sense if you're the sort of person who believes money from the government grows on trees rather than being collected from the citizenry in the form of taxes. We're all paying for the principle of free hospital care regardless of whether the money goes through an insurance company via our employer or the Department of Health and Human Servies via the IRS. So, let's not pretend health care costs are the problem.

The problem is accomodation. We have to support the chidren of illegal aliens in our schools, and we have to have a bilingual school system to make it happen. We have to pay them welfare when they can't find a job, and we have to pay their medical bills when they get hurt. The government does this because we don't want to see people suffer just because they want a better life. Even I, a predator completely devoid of compassion, feel a qualm about saying to a family of four they have to sleep on the street because they weren't supposed to be here in the first place.

But that qualm is expensive. The fact that schools in California are tightening their belts due to a budget crunch casts the $7.7 billion spent on the children of illegals in a very unfavorable light.

The advantage of a guest-worker program is that it gets the illegals onto the tax rolls so that they are paying into the system from which they draw benefits. But we went through this same exercise 20 years ago and we're back to where we started. We're going to be back here again in 20 more years unless we stop having these compassionate qualms.

You can have compassion, or you can have illegal immigration, but you can't have both.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat


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Posted by: Rich at April 16, 2006 10:10 PM

The solution is very simple. These illegals claim they're all working. And businesses claim they desperately need them to do jobs Americans won't do. So when uninsured illegals go to the hospital, or enroll their kids in a school, they should list their employer...ya' know, like Barbra Streisand and Alec Bladwin. Then the hospital or school sends the bill direct to the employer. Babs and Alec can ooze with compassion when they write the check and the average taxpayer doesn't get ripped off. Win-win.


Posted by: Harrison at April 16, 2006 10:27 PM

Great thoughts, cool site, rock on!


Posted by: wes at April 16, 2006 11:44 PM

The most fatheaded thing I heard recently, from a pro-illegal-immigration person, was that illegal immigrants should be allowed to vote in U.S. elections. The rationale is that whatever the U.S. does politically will affect the entire world, so everyone in the world should be able to have a say. I am not making this up and it was not satire. Unbelievable.


Posted by: Suldog at April 19, 2006 11:58 AM

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