🚀 go-pugleaf

The Real Bev wrote:
> Morton Davis wrote:
>
> > "The Real Bev" <bashley@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> >> pohaku.kane@gmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> The fact is foreign workers spend a good deal of that money here.
>
> They spend what they need to in order to live;  the rest goes to the family
> back home.  Money sent from the US by workers is Mexico's greatest income
> source.

That's nice. My family made much of it's fortune on Mexican oil back in
the 30's. Got it real cheap.

And they are our neighbors. Want to see your neighbor's starve?

By the way, you are wrong. They BRING those families here, along with
them most of the time.  I know, I've worked with them.

> >>> They
> >>> also pay massive amounts in taxes, and what everyone seems to forget is
> >>> that they pay into a social security retirement system they will NOT
> >>> ever be able to use if they are undocumented.
> >>
> >> A relatively minor hospitalization can cost on the order of $100K.  How much
> >> do you think low-wage undocumented immigrants can pay into the SS system?
> >> 6% of a pittance is still a pittance.
> >>
> > How do you get $500,000 in free medical care - including plastic surgery?
>
> One premature baby can cost over a $million, and that was 15 years ago.

Heck, let'em die, right?

> > Blow yourself up in a meth lab. A great many $100K medical expenses get
> > written off as bad debt as a tax writeoff.
>
> That just reduces the tax, it doesn't eliminate the expense.

"Just?"

> Still, our local hospital has embarked on a huge building program in the last
> 5 years or so, and we have quite a large population of low-income immigrants
> and native-borns.  The hospital can't be hurting that bad...

Yep, you got that right. Most PAY for their hospital care, including
Mexicans. The ones that cannot cannot because they don't make enough
money.

Pretty simple concept.

Now to stop competing and join together to deman decent wages for all.

> --
> Cheers, Bev
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> "Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
>                                                   -- Hunter S. Thompson

Boom! 

Kane