Re: For those that think illegals pay income taxes

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:02:03 GMT, "Frank Howell"
<fphowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]
>
>Another area we all loose, is the closure of Trauma centers, and Emergency
>Hospitals. Los Angeles has lost 8 major hospitals in the last six or seven
>years, due to the phenomonem of low income residents using trauma and
>emergency hospitals as regular care medical center. Since they don't have
>the funds to pay for services rendered, the hospital starts to operate in
>the red and after a few years declares bankruptcy and closes. The area's low
>income residents then go the the next nearest emergency hospital, where the
>process repeats it's self. Disgraceful to say the least.

Tucson, a community approaching (damn it) a million people now has one
trauma center. As you say, the others have gone out of business.

It's almost a weekly occurance for a (stolen) truck load of illegals
to flee from the Border Patrol or another gang of smugglers and crash.
Four seems to be the usual number of fatalities and the other dozen
get flown to the trauma center in helicopters.

The stated policy of the Border Patrol is to -not- arrest them until
after they are released from medical care because then they are wards
of the feds and they have to pay the medical bills. So the local
taxpayers get screwed (once again) by the feds.

This is another result of some people wanting free lettuce that really
has huge costs to other folks. This is typically American; worry
about me, me, me and screw the other guy.

Not much different that the newcomers who come here, pay zero
attention to the traffic problems (that they exacerbate) when they buy
a house in the far suburbs and then bitch when they can't get to work
easily. So then they want older established residents to suffer by
having a freeway bulldozed through their neighborhood.

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