Protest in your own country.
Here are some interesting facts in
In FY 2005
TANF benefits totaled more than $117 million. A monthly average of 99,730 Georgians received TANF, totaling over 37,000 cases. Of these, 66 percent were children; the others were their adult caregivers.
An average of 32,226 TANF recipients received employment services every month.
There were approximately 602,278 receiving Medicaid.
Health Insurance Coverage of Non-elderly Medicaid Enrollees by Race/Ethnicity, states (2003-2004),
Health Insurance Coverage of Non-elderly Uninsured by Race/Ethnicity, states (2003-2004),
Which means a total of 348,040 of Hispanics during 2004 received Medicaid, this number has grown considering the Hispanic population grew in the past decade by 300PAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">
Food stamp benefits worth over $1 billion were issued. About 908,073 low-income people received food stamps monthly.
As of December 2005, the participation rate was 69.26f Hispanics
70,466 children were in subsidized childcare each month, at a cost of over $19 million per month. Subsidized childcare allows low-income families to pay for day care on a sliding fee scale so they can work or train for employment.
In the past ten years, the birth rate among girls in
Twenty community action agencies and four local governments received about $17 million in federal funds to provide job skills training, transportation, housing and food.
The Energy Assistance Program distributed $19 million to 103,883 low-income households to help pay their home heating costs.
source: 1:http://dhr.georgia.gov/DHR/DHR_FactSheets/FS_DFCS_06.pdf
4. http://dhr.georgia.gov/DHR/DHR_FactSheets/Births to Teenagers in Georgia Jan 06 rev.pdf
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Oh honey. I love you...
This is one of the only issues I don't have a strong opinion on...not 'cause I don't care, but because I really don't know what's 'right' here.
Do illiegal immigrants pay taxes? No, so they shouldn't receive gov't benefits, and especially not at the abusive levels that they apparently do.
But by working at the rates they do, they provide a cheap source of excellent (no one can deny their work ethic) labor. This stimulates the US economy, so everybody benefits.
But then they send the lion's share of their earnings home, which certainly doesn't help us.
So I don't know how to answer the money question, and as Wu Tang taught us, 'Cash rules everything around me.'
Cream, get the money/Dollar dollar bill y'all
And illegal immigration is, well, illegal. So it's wrong. But the gov't pointedly chooses not enforce the statutes 'cept when it suits them. And as far as I can tell, some of their failure to do so is a result of pressure from business interests (the last Nat'l Review you sent me cited specific instances of this occuring). So if it's a 'law' but the gov't pretends it's not, is it wrong to ignore it? Is it like those crazy, 'beat your wife on Sunday in the town square' or 'no llamas in the same barn as horses' laws? On the books, but not to be taken seriously? Or is the gov't being intentionally hypocritical, reserving the right to exercise certain provisions of immigration law while generally choosing not so? I really don't know.
And I loved working with illegals in the restaurant business. They appreciate America more than most Americans do. But then you get the seedier criminal types...we saw illegal Hispanic gang members at GMC more often than you'd think.
I know this much is true: reform of immigration law is necessary. I don't know what specifically needs to be done...I'm not a fan of Bush's plan, mostly because of the additional bureaucracy it would entail. And I can't in good conscience support state benefits for illegals as long as the fail to pay taxes, regardless of what other economic benefit they provide. It's a grey zone, I know, but it violates my sense of fair play a little too much.
'Cause we should strive for fairness in all things...but in the meantime, these protesters would do well to recall one simple fact. For all their indignation and anger at laws currently being discussed, they seem unaware of the fact that life isn't fair. You should want it to be. You should work towards it being so. But you shouldn't be suprised when it turns out it isn't. And the shrillness of their placard slogans suggests that they are.
And we still need to make this a good long One Midtown Kitchen talk when I get back.
ok...I have a lot to say on this issue to counter your statement, but since you are almost home; this would be a wonderful topic at OMK.
So to everyone else...I think you got the jist of how I feel, if not ask I'd be glad to tell you.
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