The taxpayers are currently footing the bill for all the illegal aliens, but we don't seem willing to elect anyone who is willing to tackle that mess so we are stuck with a broken system and no viable cure. And when anyone suggests that adopting some kind of system where those who are benefiting from the illegal alien crowd (i.e., employers) pay for the cost of insuring some of these people, they get accused of being a "complete communist". What I find bewildering is the defense of employers (not necessarily here, but on other threads) who justify paying employees less than it takes to keep them alive and living indoors while trashing the employee when he needs government assistance to live indoors and stay alive. One burdens the system by not being able to, or unwilling to, pay enough to live on, and the other burdens the system by not earning enough to pay for what he needs. Yet it is the businessman who is our hero and the employee who is the bum.
I'm not a communist, but I am not a true believing free marketeer either. I am pragmatic. If we decide as a people that allowing people to die for lack of money is acceptable, then so be it, but then lets drop the concern over abortions. If we decide that allowing people to die due to lack of money is inconsistent with "the culture of life", then lets provide necessary medical care in the most cost effective way possible (you know, the way that gets the job done and respects the worth of my tax dollar).
I'm not a communist, but I am not a true believing free marketeer either. Here at free republic you are either a true believing free marketeer or a commie. There is no middle ground. And anyone who questions the altruistic motives of any small business owner is obviously a Stalinist Maoist Trotskyite.
And remember there has never been a single small business owner who has ever hired an illegal alien because that would be a violation of the law and you should know that (unlike Wal Mart and Microsoft) all small business owners are as honest and patriotic as the day is long.
It is Wal Mart and Microsoft that hire all the illegal aliens.