Brewha wrote:Ok, so you didn't read post #55....
Illegals are not eligible for welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, and most other public benefits. That does not mean that Illegals don't or can't steal. In fact lot of people steal lot of things. Top my list are banks that are "too big to fail" - and they steal real money - not piddling monthly benefits.
but at least acknowledge that business profit from the cheap labor of illegals. And that we some times have lower cost goods because of them.
Mad about welfare - look at how may Wal-Mart workers are on welfare because they can't get a working wage. Or even military families.
"That does not mean that illegals don't or can't steal..."
Actually, I'd say that since they're here illegally, by definition they DO steal.
And yes, I recognize that many businesses profit from illegals. I wish those business owners would be prosecuted more often. I have refused to hire contractors who hire illegals (one guy actually bragged about it, while describing how the workers fake documents covered his butt if he were investigated). The hiring of illegals is as much to blame for the influx as our social services are.
And I'm not mad about "welfare" as an entity.
Rather, I'm mad at the welfare cheats. I'm mad at the fraud.
The rules should require able bodies to work.
The local agencies shouldn't tell people how to maximize dollars (for instance, an ex employee "separated" from his live-in wife and daughter in order to keep her on welfare and get the "free" health care. He wasn't very bright, but was told how to do this by the local social services office).
Who ever said that stocking a shelf at Walmart would earn a living wage?
Don't work at Walmart and collect welfare.
Work at Walmart and flip burgers. Or else train for a skill. Don't expect Uncle Sam to make rules to save your lazy azz.