UPDATE: I just rec’d this from the Hays Daily News:
The article we ran, we found out subsequently, was not written by the author listed, but was snagged off the internet. If you can find it again, it’s yours, but don’t source our paper.
I apologize for the error, but I think it’s still a good article regardless of its source.
from the HAYS DAILY NEWS, Norton, Ks.
We need to show more sympathy for these people. They travel miles in the heat, they risk their lives crossing a border,they don’t get paid enough wages, they do jobs that others won’t do or are afraid to do, they live in crowed conditions among a people who speak a different language, they rarely see their families, and they face adversity all day every day.
I’m not talking about illegal Mexicans, I’m talking about our troops. Doesn’t it seem strange that the Democrats are willing to lavish all kinds of social benefits on illegals, but don’t support our troops and are now threatening to defund them?
Unfortunately, this truth hurts, huh? Many Americans can’t even get behind other Americans, but we’re supposed to jump on the bandwagon to reward illegals?
While I’d like to think that I’m as sympathetic as the next guy, does feeling sorry for someone mean we have to act on it by not only rewarding them for breaking our laws, but by also enabling the lawbreakers rather than holding them accountable? People tend not to appreciate anything they get for nothing, but more importantly, what’s this mean for our already underfunded social security system if we legalize millions of illegals?
As a concerned aging baby boomer myself along with millions of others, these low-wage earners will no doubt never be able to pay enough into social security like the rest of us have over a long lifetime to properly fund their own portion of their social security retirement benefits prior to their starting to receive them.
Let’s see, that’s an estimated 12 million times, oh let’s just pick, $600 a month equals $7,200,000,000 times 12 months equals $86,400,000,000 per year paid out in social security benefits. Wow, and you thought the war was expensive!
Well, supposedly we can’t find illegals to deport them although I hear that the majority apparently work in agriculture. Perhaps we could start checking the fields first. They seem to be very visible to me when I’m out in California on business or in Michigan at our vacation home where the cherry-picking industry hires them in droves. Hey, even a neighbor of mine brags about her illegal cheap housekeeper/babysitter from Guatemala so I could perhaps help round her up for deportation.
Then perhaps we could go out to Long Island to the rich and famous people’s homes, where I’m thinking we could round up another large population of illegals. They seem to be very visible to me but maybe it’s because I try to always have my eyes open and pay attention most of the time.
Here in NH, we could possibly divert our law enforcement officers to checking papers rather than checking to see if adults are wearing seatbelts? I wrongly thought the police probably had their hands full with domestic violence, child abuse, murder, rape, robberies and other unseemly crimes to solve, but since they obviously have mucho time on their hands for seat belt gastopo duties, they could perhaps use their time for paper checking illegals instead?
Hey, Doug, would you please add my name to the letter to President Bush?
Now about really supporting our troops……