On Jan 21, 12:46 am, "GeorgeWashingtonFan"
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GWashing...@teapartycentral.net> wrote:
> Excerpt:
>
> "[Supervisor] Antonovich acknowledges that the
> children whose benefits he's focusing on are
> U.S.-born. But he argues that THE MONEY IS
> COLLECTED BY THE ILLEGAL ALIEN PARENTS, putting
> a painful burden on taxpayers, including those
> who are legal immigrants.
>
> The problem is illegal immigration. ... Their
> parents evidently immigrated here in order to
> get on social services," Antonovich spokesman
> Tony Bell said. "We can no longer afford to be
> HMO to the world."
>
> Welfare Tab for Children of Illegal Immigrants Estimated at $600M in
> L.A. County
>
> January 19, 2011
>
> Welfare benefits for the children of illegal immigrants cost America's
> largest county more than $600 million last year, according to a local
> official keeping tabs on the cost.
>
> Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich released new
> statistics this week showing social spending for those families in his
> county rose to $53 million in November, putting the county government
> on track to spend more than $600 million on related costs for the year
> -- up from $570 million in 2009.
>
> Antonovich arrived at the estimate by factoring in the cost of food
> stamps and welfare-style benefits through a state program known as
> CalWORKS. Combined with public safety costs and health care costs, the
> official claimed the "total cost for illegal immigrants to county
> taxpayers" was more than $1.6 billion in 2010.
>
> "Not including the hundreds of millions of dollars for education," he
> said in a statement.
>
> Antonovich's figures, though, center on costs generated by
> American-born children of illegal immigrants. Isabel Alegria,
> communications director at the California Immigrant Policy Center, said
> it's "unfair" to roll together costs associated with both illegal
> immigrants and U.S.-born citizens.
>
> "Those children are U.S. citizens, children eligible for those
> programs," Alegria said.
>
> She also questioned the authenticity of Antonovich's numbers regarding
> health care and public safety -- though for the welfare program
> statistics, Antonovich cited numbers from the county's Department of
> Public Social Services.
>
> Antonovich acknowledges that the children whose benefits he's focusing
> on are U.S.-born. But he argues that the money is collected by the
> illegal immigrant parents, putting a painful burden on taxpayers,
> including those who are legal immigrants.
>
> "The problem is illegal immigration. ... Their parents evidently
> immigrated here in order to get on social services," Antonovich
> spokesman Tony Bell said. "We can no longer afford to be HMO to the
> world."
>
> He said the state should cut back on these social benefits. According
> to the November statistics, that cost accounted for 22 percent of all
> food stamp and CalWORKS spending in the county.
>
> Over the summer, the Federation for American Immigration Reform also
> looked at these kinds of costs nationwide to get an idea of the burden
> to local governments at a time when many are grappling with budget
> deficits.
>
> The organization reported that the cost of illegal immigration stands
> at about $113 billion a year. Nearly half of that amount went toward
> education costs, according to the study. Costs were naturally higher in
> states with large illegal immigrant populations -- in California, the
> total annual cost was pegged at $21.8 billion.
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> What Would America's Founders Say?
>
> The two enemies of the people are criminals
> and government, so let us tie the second down
> with the chains of the Constitution so the
> second will not become the legalized version
> of the first.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Those who hammer their guns into plows will
> plow for those who do not.
> --Thomas Jefferson
>
> It does not take a majority to prevail ... but
> rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on
> setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
> men.
> --Samuel Adams
>
> The strongest reason for the people to retain
> the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last
> resort, to protect themselves against tyranny
> in government.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> A free people ought not only to be armed and
> disciplined, but they should have sufficient
> arms and ammunition to maintain a status of
> independence from any who might attempt to
> abuse them, which would include their own
> government."
> -- George Washington
>
> No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> If the freedom of speech is taken away then
> dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to
> the slaughter.
> -- George Washington
>
> When governments fear the people there is liberty.
> When the people fear the government there is tyranny.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... Disarm only
> those who are neither inclined nor determined to
> commit crimes.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a
> standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed
> populace.
> -- James Madison
>
> If the representatives of the people betray
> their constituents, there is then no resource
> left but in the exertion of that original
> right of self-defense which is paramount to
> all positive forms of government ... The
> citizens must rush tumultuously to arms,
> without concert, without system, without
> resource; except in their courage and despair
> ... The natural strength of the people in a
> large community, in proportion to the artificial
> strength of the government, is greater than in a
> small ... the people, without exaggeration, may
> be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate.
> -- Alexander Hamilton
>
> All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people
> of good conscience to remain silent.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Every government degenerates when trusted to the
> rulers of the people alone. The people themselves
> are its only safe depositories.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> As our enemies have found we can reason like men,
> so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
> Action will delineate and define you.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Merchants have no country. The mere spot they
> stand on does not constitute so strong an
> attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy
> of our monied corporations which dare already to
> challenge our government to a trial by strength,
> and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> I believe that banking institutions are more
> dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Experience hath shewn, that even under the best
> forms of government those entrusted with power
> have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted
> it into tyranny.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> A Founding Father speaks out on what's nowadays
> called "political correctness":
>
> Do not suffer yourselves to be wheeled out of
> your liberty to publish by any pretenses of
> politeness, delicacy or decency. These, as they
> are so often used, are but three different names
> for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
> --John Adams
>
And in a single county! First step would be to repeal that federal law
that requires hospitals to accept all emergency room
patients. Triage nurses should reject illegals except to stabilize
their condition, then a swift bus trip to the border.
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