Do you really believe that a guy making the kind of wages paid to unskilled laborers can support a family without some kind of assistance? No public housing, no food stamps, no free medical care, no free daycare, no anything?
If so, I need to take some home economics lessons from guest workers, for sure.
No, actually I did not say that, I said the numbers were too high and not adjusted.(economics 1) Accounting 2)
I suspect they will use emergency room services just like most indigenous Americans do.
Have you ever tried to qualify for food stamps? The regs are so strict that a poor man has to sell down his assets. Besides, food stamps are a great program that is run by the Agriculture dept. and helps like a government subsidy for agriculture.
As far as (AFDC)welfare is concerned, we have cut back on that and most have no jobs. The ones that do get it for the kids.(fatherless)
Mexicans and other immigrants have better values than to abandon loads of kids like others we know.
The numbers reflect studies made, mostly in California and reflect estimates of large unemployed populations that they have and have had for years.
Bush's proposal deals with working, verifiable employed people who may have some problems but they will be seasonal and I just don't think that when added to the contributions will be anything to worry about compared to the problems we have now.
If we keep the status quo then the costs will continue to rise. This plan mitigates those costs, it does not increase them.