ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS VERSUS THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT © 2004 OceanMoonstone
		Anyone who disagrees with me I will completely respect. In fact, I'd love differing thoughts on this. (editor’s note: this article is up for discussion in the forums) I fear the impact illegal immigration is having on this country and I don't see how financially we, as a nation, can handle the stress of it on our resources much longer. I'm amazed that no one in California is saying that the financial stress they are encountering is due to the influx of people for which they pay healthcare and education costs. That would be like me enrolling my two kids in school - and then having 300 other kids also sign up that I have to pay for without having them budgeted in my family income. I'd be bankrupt the first month. Everyone needs a budget, including nations. How can a nation budget resources without a head-count? We can't. And we're getting farther and farther in debt. I've been down to the medical center in Houston. The hospital was over-crowded. Scary over-crowded. A little girl, under a year old, had arrived by ambulance not breathing. She was still in the waiting room. They revived her and left her there, because they had bigger problems obviously. What you can't see, but what I did see with my own eyes, was that my family was the only one in the waiting room speaking English. The hundreds of people there were immigrants. They openly admitted to the staff they were illegal - in Spanish. They had absolutely no fear of deportation because there is no need to fear it. They were being treated for simple ear infections, simple medical care. But they have no medical coverage or good care at home, so their only repercussion is to go to a hospital here. They aren't expected to pay because they are deemed 'indigent'. The federal government then reimburses the hospitals millions of dollars for this indigent care, but it barely covers the costs if it covers the costs at all. Consequently, most hospitals are barely making it. Especially the ones in the southwest. My step-mother works for St Luke’s in downtown Houston and runs an entire department. They've been to the brink of bankruptcy umpteen times. Now, insurance companies are making money hand over fist. Hospitals are barely surviving because they can't handle the load of caring for the patients of two nations on a one nation budget. Which brings me to my next point. Bush wants to have work permits for the ten to eleven million illegal immigrants already here. I'm amazed this sounds like a good idea to anyone. And here's why. Do you think companies want to give these people a better life? A shot at the American Dream? Hell no. They are creating a perpetual underclass. It's big plantation houses and slave labor all over again under a new pretty name of compassion. They say that the immigrant population can't get work where they come from. So their answer to that is let them toil in the fields perpetually, picking lettuce (for example) for a wages, hard long hours, no medical coverage, etcetera, here. Those workers will never get ahead. Never. They'll be picking lettuce three generations from now. They'll have no way to organize their labor. No voice. In their country, there’s rampant corruption in the police force and they have drug lords, etc. It's a terrible environment for a huge percentage of them. Vast numbers  live in squalor while their elite get wealthier. And what is our answer? "HEY! I know! We'll look the other way. Not see that your country is corrupt and you're being brutalized and left in pitiful conditions as a nation. Come work for us. Uh, in the field, yeah, picking cotton, oops, I mean lettuce, in 110 degree weather. We caaaaaaaaaare about cheap labor we can over-work and take advantage of. Uhhh… I mean, we caaaaaaaaaare about yoooooooooooou." If we care so much, why aren't we helping them be the super-power they can be? Mexico is oil filled. They could be oil rich. They have beautiful coast lines to die for and could be a nation that profits heavily from tourism. (Sure, some of the elite do now, but the entire nation could be profiting.) But do we want a Super Power to the south? Yeah right. We'd prefer to heeeeeeelp them. Here. Doing jobs we don't want to do. If I hear that phrase one more time I'm going to crack. Well what makes us think they want to work doing jobs we don't want to do? They are hungry and poor. And we're doing them a favor ushering them in as our forever underclass? Is that right? But back to our financial trouble. On Bush's big work visa plan, their children will collect social security if they have them here. We can barely pay what we have coming up with baby-boomers. We have massive debt from the war on terror. We had debt before all of this. And now - now he wants to spend a billion in space?! Can we frigging pay for our debt on this planet first?! If I don't pay my bills, I'm in trouble. How long can we afford these programs we don't have money for? America can go broke and no one will bail us out. I'm sure we'll have countries lining up to help us solve our financial woes. Maybe Canada will open its borders the way we've opened ours and let us pick their lettuce. That's our winning plan and man it's working for us. *cough* Our education systems are breaking. Houston's public schools are laying people off because we are flat going broke. California is seeing the same thing. Dallas, Houston, major cities to the south can't spend the money required to education the children of two nations. It's simple economics. Why aren't we helping them develop the nation they could have and be proud of? Why aren't we helping them build their own education and healthcare systems? Simple. We looooove cheap labor. Gotta run our plantations and pick lettuce. We aren't being compassionate in this instance, we're being opportunistic. And it's disgusting. And when America goes flat out broke and our healthcare system explodes because we've let big business (which I respect but in this case it's wrong) decide we need an underclass, and our education system falls, and our social security dries up (which it already is), I'd just like to say our stupidity brought it out. I am not going to vote for Bush if this insane B.S. compassionate agenda keeps going forward. That's why he's losing his ground with independents. Because if they can add numbers, they see that we can't budget or handle this plan financially. We can't. Why vote for the guy about to break my financial future? Yes, he’s pumped up the economy right now and I'm proud of him for that. But his compassionate ushering and outright using of another nations people is sickening. It’s not right. And it will hurt our future finances. This isn't the way to help people in need. They need real help. Not further lettuce picking opportunities. And that's why this die hard Republican is considering for the first time in her life, not voting for a Republican.

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