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To: PatrioticAmerican
If most Hispanics are on welfare, how come so many(and most in many areas) work the lowest paying jobs, often at or near minimum wage? If they are freeloaders(the way you imply), why would they bother working when they could make about as much sitting home on welfare, and have so much more free time? Simply bored?

Ignorance is very sad.

70 posted on 03/17/2002 9:36:08 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat
why would they bother working when they could make about as much sitting home on welfare

Come to California and drive by any welfare office, you'll see what we're talking about. The lines go around corners daily. As for them working, yes, most of them try to get occasional work as day laborers in construction jobs and restaurant jobs, etc., usually working "under the table" for less than Americans can afford to. It's called "beer money". False documents do wonders to beat the system here.

72 posted on 03/17/2002 9:44:29 AM PST by janetgreen
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To: Diddle E. Squat
"Ignorance is very sad"

Yes, it is. Yours.

"If most Hispanics are on welfare, how come so many(and most in many areas) work the lowest paying jobs, often at or near minimum wage?"

How? They do not have valid SSNs to report income. They go to welfare offices and receive it, no questions asked. Many live in public housing against the laws. Many get their elderly parents hewre for free Social Security, having not paid a dime into it. Many can get WIC by simply crossing the border then having an "emergency birth" at an emergency room, where the hospital cannot tell them to leave. The kid is now an American, by birth.

If so many are working and do not need welfare, or do not collect it, then why are more than 30% of welfare recipients Hispanic?

260 posted on 03/17/2002 6:44:48 PM PST by PatrioticAmerican
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