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Posted on 05/11/2005 1:23:00 PM PDT by CHARLITE
By my calculations, for this $1,000,000,000, you could pay out approximately $2,739,726 per day. This would deploy approximately 22,831 troop man-days on the border each day (calculated at a base military pay of $120 per 8 hour period, per soldier). If deployed in 8 hour shifts, that would mean around 7610 permanently patrolling troops on the border giving 24 hours a day coverage. As the Mexican border is approximately 2000 miles long, this would average 3 soldiers per mile (the rest being supervisory and support), 24 hours a day. I'd bet that would stop a lot of the illegal immigrants now showing up in Emergency Rooms all over the country!
As a benefit, rather than paying out "free" health costs for thieves sneaking in and stealing them from the American taxpayer the money goes into the pockets of our troops!
It was bad enough when my son was dropped by CHIP after only one month of coverage due to cuts in funding... but yet 2 months later I hear this commercial on the radio where a school nurse is calling Mrs. Gonzales or some spanish name to let her no Jose is running a fever and "oh by the way, why don't you apply for CHIP.." Talk about fuming!
But then again, it's kinda like my neighbors.... bi-racial family of 4 - mom, dad, son, daughter.... No one in the home works because 3 of them (dad & kids) draw SSI due to "disabilities"... uh huh... really disabled. Kids play unsupervised non-stop, dad works out at the gym everyday.
Yet, there again, my disabled son does not qualify for CHIP or SSI... go figure.
Same concept as paying for Illegals healthcare.
It's just so sickening and so very WRONG! Just makes me work that much harder to NOT be dependent on the gov't or anyone else for anything.
I understand what you are saying. Just don't let your son's or your health care go. This is happening all to often for Americans.
Do you think Bush will ever tell the truth about the costs of illegals???????
Thanks very much for this additional information, Happy2BMe. Very helpful. The more facts that we get out into the public about this abuse of our country by illegals, the better chance that there might be true legislation ending this appalling situation.
No kidding. That's not the point. The point is to take the burden off the state taxpayer and place it on the fed level. My county in California now has an 8.75% sales tax, passed to fund the crashing county medical system. Guess who crashed it? Guess who is now paying for it? This tax was passed by local libs to the detriment of all. Right and wrong has nothing to do with it. At least at this small level, the feds are acknowledging that they are indeed responsible for protecting the borders and if they won't do that at least help defray the states' costs.
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I can't afford to go to the hospital because I don't have any $$$ left after paying taxes for the criminal alien benefits Contract with America.
Question for O'Reilly: "Should wealthy criminal Mexican aliens pay for their own healthcare?"
I would suggest that all legal citizens NOT enter any emergency room that is flooded with illegals.
Last week, it was stated that in Arizona, there is a rise in whooping cough cases. Who knows what else these people bring with them, TB maybe?
We're better off staying away from those places.
However, it peeves me to no end that they come over here and we have to pay for them.
One way or the other...
It's the same working stiff. Different tax source.
LAUSD school nurses having been quietly treating rising cases of TB in Los Angeles for the past ten years...there is no disease screening anymore at the border
Well, Texas just passed new taxes today. No doubt in the hidden language this new tax will also be for illegals. We cannot absorb anymore. Most Americans only have one bank account so it doesn't matter who does the taxing city, county, state or the feds. The money still comes out of the same bank account. The Texas taxes will be signed by our Republican governor.
What you are actually saying is that Bush and the Republicans have been such failures on border control that the rest of the country needs to pay for their mess. Instead of tackling the problem of illegal immigration we are being forced to subsidize illegals. This problem will just escalate. Insurance rates will skyrocket as this billion won't be enough.
Also, what makes you think that legal hispanics won't go to the hospital and say "no comprende" and also get free care? I'll guarantee you that this will also happen. This has opened the door to more corruption than imaginable.
It will be the other.
I doubt OReilly knows how wealthy some of these Mexicans are. Of course, not all are wealthy but they are Mexico's problem, not ours.
I do know of one Mexican who had a maid that brought him fresh fruit daily to his hospital room. A nurse asked the maid where she got such fresh fruit. She said their jet goes to Mexico City every day to get the fruit. Guess who paid the hospital bill? True story. By the way, they had 2 personal jets.
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