California only hours away from total ruin

LOS ANGELES -- Any day now, community colleges here may begin telling faculty members that they cannot be paid and students that summer classes are canceled.

Nursing homes are losing so much state aid that many soon may have to shut down or limit their services, a prospect that has elderly residents confused and frightened.

As many as 30,000 government workers who had been expecting pay raises in the fall are instead receiving formal notices warning that they could lose their jobs by then, because the state is broke.

The nation's most populous state, home to one of the world's largest economies, has been staring in disbelief at the same dire predicament for months: a $38 billion deficit, the largest shortfall in its history and an extreme example of the budget woes afflicting many states. But now it has only hours left to solve the problem.

I disagree with you about going after the employers in order to stop illegal immigration. Not that we shouldn't. It's just that as long as health care and education is free, along with food programs, etc., illegals will still come here and work under the table. Small businesses, even families, employ more people than big businesses do.

Also, if you have ever lived in a country where there is virtually no immigration, especially not of the undereducated, unskilled type, you will know that all the jobs that people here seem to think "we won't do" are done by the elderly and the teens of that country. Switzerland is a prime example, and I lived there for 9 years. Sure, there are a few foreigners in the bigger cities in "those" jobs (menial ones), but throughout most of the country, you will see elderly street sweepers (with brooms!) and teens behind counters of food stands. Maids are rare and gardeners even rarer. People do their own housekeeping and grass cutting.

It would actually be a good thing if we enforced our illegal alien laws, and provide all sorts of job openings for our own teens and healthy elderly, not to mention for our many, many legal aliens.

If we passed a 187-type law, illegals would no longer be able to get all the medical and educational services we pay so dearly for, meant for our own citizens and residents.

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