"SACRAMENTO, Calif. – With empty pockets and maxed-out credit, California is debating whether it can continue honoring all parts of its social contract with the state's most vulnerable residents.
The state faces an unprecedented drop in tax revenue and a widening budget deficit amid the deepest recession in decades, prompting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to propose cost-cutting steps that once seemed unthinkable.
At stake are programs for the poor, elderly and frail, placing millions of people in the nation's most populous state at risk of falling through a decades-old social safety net.
Ending the welfare-to-work program for mothers and their children would affect some 546,000 families, and health insurance could be eliminated for 1 million children from low-income families. Services for Alzheimer's patients, disabled and other frail recipients of in-home care also would be greatly reduced under the governor's latest budget proposal, leaving more than 400,000 people without such support."
Yet, Schwarzenegger defends spending 4 to 5 billion dollars annually on illegals services, insisting they are not part of California's budget problem. He says it's a "small percentage" of the deficit California faces. HELLO!
If you have a 24.3 billion dollar budget shortfall, then that's 16% to 20% Gov! Then add all the taxes these folks don't pay, and the money they send back to Mexico rather than spend here, and there's lots more money that you lose. Then add in the amount of criminal activity encountered, incarceration cost, cost of police services, emergency services not covered by the above 4 to 5 billion, cost of the Border Patrol and ICE due to the illegals, and, well, you get the picture. I'd bet the cost is double what you postulate it to be. And you say we need them here to work the fields and pick the crops and work construction jobs. How stupid is that? If they were not here, Americans could have the jobs at decent wages, because employers would be forced to pay the true value for the labor they need.
Then, get this quote from the Governor: "You know something, as far as I'm concerned, I'm happy that they can get the services," he said Friday. "Because I would like to have the services if I'm somewhere in another country … if I have an accident with a motorcycle and I go to an emergency room, I don't want someone to say, is he here legally?"
(Obviously, Arnold has no idea about the Form 1011 where ER personnel can't ask about citizenship status. That's how all the illegals get the free ride. How could he not know that if we're spending 4 to 5 billion dollars on "services"! Plus, other countries do not provide "free" services to people who arrive there legally or illegally. You'd better be prepared to pay or have insurance or a credit card. Arnie...if you know of a place that will provide free services...maybe we can deport all the freeloaders to there?)
Arnold, you make me want to vomit. Your pandering and political correctness to play all sides of what appears to be a polygon are sickening to the taxpayers of this state. You've been hanging around the Democrats in Sacramento too long, and your mind is gone. Worse, you're selling our American elders and ill down the drain, to get in bed with those whose votes you're seeking at any cost. You won't get mine, and I hope any one who is smart won't give you, or any other incumbent, theirs either! And Schwarzenegger has the balls to call anyone else a Girly Man?
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