I spoke to a woman who lived in Florida for a time, it was a nice community with a HOA. She said it was to be single family only. Well there was a big crackdown on this because apparently illegal immigrants were living in basements and all sorts of makeshift apartments in the neighborhood and the local health department was being stretched passed it's limits by all these people. It was so bad that they couldn't take care of their own people who lived in the service area. It was all illegals and the regular folk couldn't get in due to the long lines going clear outside the clinic buildings. She told me this on the 4th of July at a family picnic. Have to say this makes me unhappy that so much of our resources are going to criminals.
Cut off welfare and the deadbeats sucking off the government tit would either fill these jobs or starve. Either way all illegal aliens should be deported, plus the incentive for them coming here should be eliminated.
Absolutely, I have been so poor as to collect cans from the side of the road or peddle campfire wood for 2 dollars a bundle. But as long as a person thinks they can get something for free they will try for it. That is why it needs to stop being given. Most will find a way.
I'm even old enough to remember when being on the dole was a bad thing. And people, depending on the demographics, would be ashamed if they ever had to beg for a hand out from the government. How times have changed.
That maybe true for one class of immigrants, but really that class isn't the one that we should worry about. It's the class of miscreants who would not be able to get a travel visa that we worry about the most jumping the border (MS-13, Al Qaeda, etc.).
Exactly, thats why Gazrok is wrong on this one. .
Just thinking about that this morning. The sensitive types have removed the stigma of being on the dole. changed food stamps to cards that look like credit cards, etc. changed the name of food stamps to SNAP, anything to protect the sensitivities of people who take advantage, so why not? I remember when only the poorest of people took government handouts and as a last resort. People piss me off. It is a lack of pride.
Like the old saying goes; "Being poor should not be comfortable."
Years ago they gave away some cheese out of an old store building, it was some kind of subsidy government purchased cheese to support dairy farmers or something. It was free to anyone who wanted it, I went and stood in line. Hey I didn't have to file for anything and it was free so I got some. It sure came in handy the year I lived off 5000 dollars for 12 months. I never so much as bought a French fry that year. It all went to gas, food and laundry.
I wrote my politicians about a family that was on their 5th generation of welfare and how angry I was about it. Leaches!
I think if they build a wall, the drug cartels will build more tunnels. They will be in the business of drug smuggling and people smuggling. There is plenty of money to be made for the cartels for letting someone pass through their tunnels for the right price.
Following this line of logic, then we should not lock our doors because crooks can pick locks and break down doors.
