Don’t Give the Social Security $$$ of My Parents to Illegal Immigrants

I read some rather sobering reports over the weekend about the pending budget problems in both Washington and many statehouses across the nation. Government spending has risen at such a rate and budget deficits have gotten so big that we’re all soon to see increased taxes AND cuts in government spending in order to get our financial house even reasonably in order.

This is sure to develop into a real battle between political parties, ideologies and special interests over the next couple of years. Get ready.

I’m sure a lot of this will get pretty complicated. But I also think two issues deserve particular attention.

First, I think we have a clear moral obligation to commit to the well being of our parents and grandparents. In my mind these are the people that helped build this terrific country. To cut their social security or healthcare would be flat-out wrong.

Which leads to my second point. There are anywhere from 15 to 18 million illegal immigrants living in the US. Some of these are good people, some aren’t. Some of them are receiving illegal government assistance (social security, medicare, aid to families, etc.), others aren’t. Some of them want to assimilate, others want to simply take us for whatever they can get & send it back home. But, on balance, my intuition tells me that they are costing us tens and tens of billions of dollars.

As we start cutting government spending I believe we have a responsibility to take care of our native born American and LEGAL immigrants. WE ABSOLUTELY CANNOT CUT SUPPORT FROM OUR PARENTS AND CHILDREN because the government is going broke paying for the costs of illegal immigrants.

Not my parents. Not your parents.