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On Jun 1, 9:30*am, Mitchell Holman nomailverizon.net wrote:
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On Jun 1, 8:29*am, "Alex W." wrote:
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:19:58 -0500, Free Lunch wrote:
On Fri, 31 May 2013 21:34:08 -0700, (Jason)
wrote in alt.atheism:

In article , Free
Lunch wrote:

On Fri, 31 May 2013 19:22:25 -0700, (Jason)
wrote in alt.atheism:

In article , Free
Lunch wrote:
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How much are you willing to spend in enforcement to avoid
$1,000 i
n
fraud?

About 5 to 10 percent of the money spent on the food stamp
program.

So you want to spend billions in enforcement to avoid a
thousand in waste. How foolish of you.

I meant to investigate cases of possible fraud and abuse.

But fraud and abuse are far less than 5% of the cost now.

Which may be true but is immaterial to the debate since this
is a political issue, and politics is largely the art of
wrestling with and managing public perception. *Similar
examples are a perceived crime wave when actual figures show
a downturn in crime,

Nice analogy. *There are 48 mil on food stamps today, up
70% in the last 4 years. *If crime were up like that, it would
be one hell of a mess. *Actually, crime is one hell of a mess
in places like Detroit and Chicago that are run by you libs.

or the view that illegal immgirants are
welfare spongers when the evidence shows they are by and
large extremely hard workers,

hard worker or not, they are still illegal aliens. *And there
are plenty of them taking advantage of the USA.

Illegal Immigration Provides Benefits to States
Fox Busniess News

Putting the law and morality of illegal entry aside, several
studies have shown the illegal immigrant population is more
of an economic contributor to state and local economies than
politicians like to tell an angry electorate. The numbers can
be broken down into the fiscal cost (or gain) of illegal
immigrants to states, along with the economic contribution of
the population.

The most thorough study on the fiscal and economic impact of
immigration was done by the non-partisan Texas Comptrollers’
Office in 2006, which showed Texas earned more in taxes and
economic output from illegal immigrants than governments spent
to provide services. According to the Comptrollers’ office,
state and local governments spent $1.16 billion to provide
services like education, health care and safety, but raised
an estimated $1.58 billion in tax revenues. Based on the data,
the Texas taxpayer made a $424.7 million profit on its illegal
immigrant population in 2006.


Liar, liar, pants on fire! You carefull edited out this part which
totally
changes the math:

"Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues,
which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received.
However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in
uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not
paid for by the state.”

So:

$1.58bil - $1.16bil - $1.44 bil = - $1bil

In other words illegal alliens actually cost the citizens of TX,
$1bil.


You aren't factoring in the consumer cost of
goods and service kept artifically low by the
work of illegals. How high would wages (and thus
prices) have to go to lure Americans into fields
to pick lettuce and strawberries and to gut cattle
and "process" chickens and pigs?

Why do you think growers have to go as far away
as Jamaica to find legal field hands?




Eastern Washington farm hires 300 Jamaican workers
May 24, 2010

A farm in Eastern Washington is employing hundreds of
Jamaican workers to replace the illegal immigrants it
lost after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement
investigation last year.

Gebbers Farms in Brewster, WA, which grows apple and
cherry trees, is hiring 300 workers from Jamaica
through the H-2A visa program, issuing temporary
agricultural visas.

Gebbers Farms is certified through the Department of
Labor to hire foreign workers. Mike Gempler, with the
Washington Growers League, told KIRO Radio's Dave Ross,
that US citizens get the opportunity to apply for the
jobs, but that the farm still didn't find enough
Americans to harvest its fruit.

Gempler said, "The problem is there's no guarantee that
the people looking for jobs now will have legal documents.
So you have businesses that are subject to enforcement
actions by Department of Homeland Security."
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=324409


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or the widespread belief that
America spends huge sums on third-world fireign aid when the
actual sums involved are only a tiny part of the budget.

And where is the evidence that it's doing us much good?
You cool with the idea of giving the muslim brotherhood
govt in Egypt money from struggling Americans?

* *Well, that IS the elected government there.
Do you have a problem with supporting democracy?- Hide quoted text -

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Yes, when the elected govt is anti-American, denies basic human
rights to women, persecutes Christians and supports our enemies.



Oh, puh-leeze. Where was that concern for womens
rights and "supporting our enemies" when it comes to
US aid to Saudi monarchy?




Saudi Document Shows Kingdom Linked with Al-Qaeda Terror
May 25 2010

An Iraqi news agency has revealed more evidence linking
Saudi Arabia with terror. The Buratha news service
published what it said it is a secret document disclosing
how much money the Saudi kingdom has transferred to Al-Qaeda
in Iraq. The kingdom reportedly sends explosives and weapons
to terrorist groups in Iraq.

Saudi Arabia did not comment on the report and instead
criticized intelligence officials for disclosing the
document. Buratha said that King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz
ordered a special committee to investigate the intelligence
leak and inform him about those liable in the case. Saudi
authorities reportedly have arrested 37 of the country's
intelligence officials for being behind the leak.
http://tinyurl.com/27ra64g