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Topic: Immigrant Welfare: The
New Colossus |
Immigrant Welfare: The
New Colossus
National Review, by Jillian Kay Melchoir
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Posted By:PageTurner, 11/29/2012 9:43:58 AM
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| Here’s a perplexing pair of statistics: Compared with native-born Americans, immigrants are more likely to start a business — and they’re also more likely to depend on welfare. These dissonant data are even more irksome considering the state of the U.S. economy. Government social-aid programs consume an ever-growing portion of the federal budget, surpassing a trillion dollars even before Medicare and Social Security are factored in. And entrepreneurial activity is slowing. Census Bureau statistics show that start-ups accounted for 12 percent of American businesses in 1980 but less than 8 percent today.
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Comments:
Yearning to eat free.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
lostinmassachusetts, 11/29/2012 10:06:29 AM (No. 9039184)
Here is one place to start entitlement reform. Why are non-citizens given welfare, foodstamps and free healthcare? My wife handles maternity patients who come here from other countries to have an anchor baby and receive free medical benefits and welfare. Why? And why do we allow recent immigrants to bring their extended families here, who then join the SSI, welfare, and medicaid rolls? I´m not against legal immigration. but why do admit people who will be dependent on our largesse. At a time when we´re concerned about the cost of services for our own people, why do we seek people from other countries who cannot pay their own way? This is madness.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
K.I.S.S., 11/29/2012 10:08:26 AM (No. 9039189)
per an article posted on the Blaze
2011
66.1 million Welfare Recipients
21.2 million Government Workers
109.3 Private Sector employees
The source for the private and government employed persons is the US Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, September 2011. The number of welfare recipients is calculated with national Medicaid and Food Stamp numbers (using Pennsylvania´s formula to remove duplicate counts).
...sadly illegal aliens and legal immigrants do not come to the USA to become Americans, they come for American welfare paid for by American taxpayers...and to vote for Democrats!!!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
curious1, 11/29/2012 10:10:23 AM (No. 9039198)
#1, all part of the libtard bureaucracy drive to expand it´s power and their plan to overwhelm and bankrupt the ´system´. Thus, they believe, ushering in their opportunity to create a communist/socialist/fascist/libtard utopia. They really believe they will be the elite and get to tell everybody what to do even more than they already do.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/29/2012 10:28:23 AM (No. 9039225)
Money for nothing...the Dims are still buying votes, that is what elected Obie, got it?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 11/29/2012 10:28:44 AM (No. 9039227)
Great comment poster!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 11/29/2012 12:34:29 PM (No. 9039537)
Our family had a lively discussion on this very topic over T-giving dinner (of all times and places). We decided, it may actually be the more benificial strategy to give up our home, disclaim our American citizenship, change our names to "something Hispanic sounding" and apply for social support. We have an illegal family just down the street- they are all on welfare, declaring support for children in Mexico! He braggs to me that there are no kids in the Old Country, but between them, he, his son with "kids" and adult daughter and her kids, they pull in almost 7 grand a month! Plus full medical and food card! He drive a very nice F-250, the son has an older model PU that pulls a "Landscaping" trailer, and they have three men living in the house as boarders who work for the son´s small business. Xavier also is very proud that most of their income is non-taxable, and the son does all in cash- no taxes there, either. Wife and I had to pay six grand in taxes last year as legal American citizens. We now envy our "Hispanic" neighbors.
Yeppers, the nuts are running the asylum now.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bighambone, 11/29/2012 1:04:28 PM (No. 9039602)
Over the years the liberal Democrats who consider all poor immigrants to be prospective future liberal Democrat voters set up the immigration system that is now in place, including stacking up all the legal loopholes allowing immigrants, illegal and legal, to participate in the US social welfare network and thus essentially to be subsidized by American taxpayers. A lot of Republicans, especially the crowd who love very cheap immigrant labor, went along with the liberal Democrats simply to get along and to keep labor costs for their business oriented constituents as low as possible. The liberal Democrats are not about to allow the current immigration system to be changed in anyway that will lower the large number of new immigrant voters they are receiving each year. The Republicans are now going to have to suffer the long-term political consequences of being complicit in allowing such an out of control immigration system to manifest itself.
When immigrants start new businesses in the USA, for the most part they hire fellow immigrants, both illegal and legal who are here from their home countries. Those businesses actually constitute a big part of the underground economy in the USA and easily undercut US owned small businesses by not paying customary American wages and benefits to their workers, and many times not even paying the required employment and other taxes for their employees.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 11/30/2012 1:42:20 AM (No. 9040583)
Keep in mind the gold card is political asylum with a small business loan, housing, healthcare and food.
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