You said it, brother! Also, by letting people escape their problems elsewhere, we are destroying their incentive to improve their OWN society. If these folks care about having a better life, why don't they stay home and do something about it there? Viva la revolución! If they are living under a dictator or a two-class system, let 'em rise up and change their own world. Hell, worked for us.
What galls me is when some family from Guatemala comes up here and gets a million dollars worth of free surgery to separate siamese twins while my daughter's birth cost me close to 5 grand WITH PPO insurance yet. I couldn't get a free roll of toilet paper from the hospital and yet any welfare case from other parts of the world suck our medical system's tit for all its worth. The insurance company busts my balls on every claim but there's plenty of extra resources to service the welfare cases of the world.
Let me add my 2 cents. I've been self employed for 25 years. Occasionally I'll need to hire part time help. Two years ago I did just that. This employee worked 30 hours a week as a helper making 8 dollars an hour, for about 6 months. His wife also had part time work. When it came to discussing tax refund checks, I was stunned! Together this couple paid into the system a grand total of 2365.00 in taxes. Guess what their refund check was? 4300.00 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I believe thats wealth redistribution, or for those educated within the government schools its called "Socialism". I agree. Things will never change as long as our public educational system keeps turning out "idiots". We've all seen it. Go to any McDonalds and give the kid 2.03 for a 1.78 bill. If the register doesn't tell them the change, they can't figure it out. We all shake our heads and laugh and walk away. Things will never change until people get involved. Those that complain and point out the problems, yet do nothing in an attempt to change them are just as guilty as those that take advantage of the system. No one goes to School Board meetings. No one exposes the NEA for what they really are. No one gets involved. "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem". What scares me most, is these idiots will be running the country when I'm about to retire. Now, isn't that a comforting thought?
"In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." --Voltaire Josh
"Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?" -- Alan Keyes Josh
"In a recent conversation with an official at the Internal Revenue Service, I was amazed when he told me that 'If the taxpayers of this country ever discover that the IRS operates on 90% bluff the entire system will collapse' ". - Henry Bellmon, Senator (1969) Josh
"I don't think there is any question there would be a national revolt against current federal taxes if the public paid them all on April 15" Andrew Levine, former lawyer in IRS national office from " A Law Unto Itself" by David Burnham