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To: Jezebelle
In CA, we can't elect enough people to put a halt to illegal immigration or paying for the illegals already here because of rat gerrymandering of congressional, state senatorial and assembly districts.

We, in California, will never be able to elect enough people to put an end to illegal immigration because immigration is a federal issue. CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, FLORIDA, or any other state, does not have the Constitutional power!

Obviously if we have not been able to do much about immigration with a Republican dominated House, Senate, and President, there are some very powerful forces at work and they ain't all liberal.

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, and they will be hit the hardest by such a requirement, and they can least afford it.

If small business employs people and either does not provide the benefits or pays less than it takes for the employee to purchase the benefits, they are a burden and not backbone.

208 posted on 01/09/2007 6:43:07 PM PST by lucysmom
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To: lucysmom

" We, in California, will never be able to elect enough people to put an end to illegal immigration because immigration is a federal issue. CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, FLORIDA, or any other state, does not have the Constitutional power!

Obviously if we have not been able to do much about immigration with a Republican dominated House, Senate, and President, there are some very powerful forces at work and they ain't all liberal."

Yes, the entry is a federal issue, but providing illegals with services is a state matter. Remember prop. 187? Gray Davis managed to get it overturned through some fast and loose manipulations of the judicial system, but the point is that that aspect of it is a state matter. So your second point is moot/irrelevant as far as this aspect goes.

"If small business employs people and either does not provide the benefits or pays less than it takes for the employee to purchase the benefits, they are a burden and not backbone."

I see. So it would be better if there were no small businesses and the employees of small businesses are unemployed and/or on welfare. Good plan. Makes sense.

Sheesh. Another socialist. I don't know how you can reconcile the need to complain about congress not doing anything about illegal aliens and in the same breath you want to foist government-mandated, taxpayer-funded universal health care on us.


224 posted on 01/10/2007 2:17:05 AM PST by Jezebelle (Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
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