Illegal Response

Jillian, good points about the taxes. They do pay social security taxes, but that's not really my biggest concern. I feel we give away way too much to illegals that take advantage. They come into our schools, use the emergency rooms, and so on. I also agree with you that many white Americans do the same. We are talking about illegals though. Jared brought up a great point for people that want to work here and benefit their family. We have work visas, and maybe we need to make them easier to get, but people can come here and work. And like he said if they reach the end of the visa, they go back home to their country. If they want to stay they apply to become a citizen. We could weed out bad people this way. If you go to jail during this time, you are evaluated for what you did. If you were really bad, you don't become a citizen and you get kicked out. If you get into no trouble and you pay ALL your taxes, then you qualify to become a citizen. BUT, you learn english, and you become an American, part of our country.

As far as lazy people in general taking advantage of the system, well they are here, they will always be here, as long as we are liberal in our treatment of them. If we as a country lean more to the conservitive side, we will actually help people by forcing them to get off their butts. Now, I understand there are circumstances that allow for people to receive help, and some won't be able to contribute, but most could.

How about by providing work situations for people getting welfare. They could work jobs giving service of some kind, to earn the freebies. Kind of like the church does with it's welfare system. Did you know when you take from the Bishops storehouse, you should give of your time. They don't ask time for dollars, just time. How perfect of a system. So when someone receives welfare, how about doing work? It might be crappy jobs we don't like sometimes, like clean up a vacant lot? or collect trash from a freeway? I don't know, but the government could have all kinds of things that people could do to give back when they receive.

Remember the saying, you can give a man a fish and feed him for a day, or you can teach a man to fish and feed him for life. This is one big thing that scares me about Obama and the liberals, always wanting to give more and create more dependence on government handouts instead of creating self reliance.

I love hearing all the comments by the way, and we haven't heard from Mom or Dad lately, or Christian. I know we are all busy, but remember part of this is to all keep conversations going for the benifit of ME, being a state away, and Jill!

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