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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
The whole straw man argument of "we must pay for them or they'll be a burden" is so tiresome. Their just being here leeching off the system is a burden to DC. Didn't DC just have to raise taxes because they couldn't balance the budget?[/quote]

This program only applies to low income individuals. It's people who would be covered under Medicaid if they were legal. They most definitely will be a burden one way or another if they become ill.

Moreover, since empathy appears to be quite beyond your capability, let's try self-interest. Do you really want the person cooking your food to be unable to afford a doctor's visit to treat his communicable disease? To you want to ride on the Metro next to someone who is sick, but unable to afford medical care?  
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No. I want the person to go back to where they came from and then apply to come to this country legally like so many of my friends and family did. Many of my friends spent over $150,000 in to get a US education to then be eligible for H1-B (EB2) (which costs about another ten grand) to finally get their green cards. All the while making sure every single I was dotted and T crossed. [/quote]Yeah, well I wanted the banks to go broke for their mistakes (because it would be justice and because I pay for my errors) but it wasn't in the nation's interest to let them go bankrupt so I accepted that. It's not in my friggin' interest to wait till hell freezes over and all these people voluntarily go home so in the mean time I would prefer it if they weren't a burden on the local emergency room where they cost us a lot more than if they go to a doctor - thus the advantage of spending $20 million on them as a preventative measure.

[i]Your way[/i] doesn't save us money. My way does.  If you want to keep pouring money into hospital emergency rooms, you just go ahead and write them a check but keep my tax money out of it.[/quote]

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