The purpose of the Great Wall was not to keep the invaders out, it was to keep the loot in... It's easy for a group of pillagers to climb over carrying a few supplies and weapons, but try to climb back out with a few rugs and sacks of gold... much more difficult.
The question is not whether illegal immigrants make the cost of fruit a few cents cheaper, but the cost they add to other areas such as healthcare and education. They are abusing the system everywhere. They show up at a hospital, they 'must' be treated, regardless of if they can pay. Their children attend our education system, just look at the school issues in California... We are absorbing the cost of them being here, one way or another... personally, I'd gladly pay 50 cents more for fruit and save 100$ on my healthcare...
True Example Here: Ran with an ambulance company, had a call to take a mother and her son to the hospital. In speaking to them: They were not citizens, had no insurance, they admitted it was not an emergency, the son 'had a headache' and that it was cheaper for them to call an ambulance then a taxi...
And yes, this kind of abuse happens all to frequently...
I believe that its was around '76 that the Times had a giant front page article declaring that, based on collected data, 'Global Cooling' would be the doom of our society... Personally, I buy that over 'Global Warming'... Geological records show that the earth goes through periodic Ice Ages every 40,000 yrs or so. Fossil Records indicate that these Ice Ages are typically preceded by periods unseasonable warmth. Now, the last ice age was, ohh, roughly 40,000 years ago, and we seem to have this 'warming trend'... You do the math...
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The purpose of the Great Wall was not to keep the invaders out, it was to keep the loot in... It's easy for a group of pillagers to climb over carrying a few supplies and weapons, but try to climb back out with a few rugs and sacks of gold... much more difficult. The question is not whether illegal immigrants make the cost of fruit a few cents cheaper, but the cost they add to other areas such as healthcare and education. They are abusing the system everywhere. They show up at a hospital, they 'must' be treated, regardless of if they can pay. Their children attend our education system, just look at the school issues in California... We are absorbing the cost of them being here, one way or another... personally, I'd gladly pay 50 cents more for fruit and save 100$ on my healthcare... True Example Here: Ran with an ambulance company, had a call to take a mother and her son to the hospital. In speaking to them: They were not citizens, had no insurance, they admitted it was not an emergency, the son 'had a headache' and that it was cheaper for them to call an ambulance then a taxi... And yes, this kind of abuse happens all to frequently...
I believe that its was around '76 that the Times had a giant front page article declaring that, based on collected data, 'Global Cooling' would be the doom of our society... Personally, I buy that over 'Global Warming'... Geological records show that the earth goes through periodic Ice Ages every 40,000 yrs or so. Fossil Records indicate that these Ice Ages are typically preceded by periods unseasonable warmth. Now, the last ice age was, ohh, roughly 40,000 years ago, and we seem to have this 'warming trend'... You do the math...