Welfare to kids of illegals in LA County costs $276 million per year

You'll have to excuse me. Between being banned for a while and moving 400 miles across the state of brain death, I haven't been able to keep up with the recent doings of the board.

I am honestly curious as to how a follower of Ms. Rand's philosophy would view the current "illegal situation" in the US. Ms. Rand herself was an immigrant - a fortunate one in that she was a Russian opposed to the then current soviet regime and had the benefit of an education.

She viewed most government as an impediment - "Get the hell out of my way!" It seems to me that the group that would fall into her definition of "parasites" in this instance is the US businessman who hires the migrants illegally and pays no social security, workman's comp, etc that he would he have to pay for a US worker. The illegals don't just walk across the border and immediantly apply for welfare. They WORK at substandard wages, doing jobs that US workers refuse to do.

So why all the ill will toward them?

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by marichiko

You'll have to excuse me. Between being banned for a while and moving 400 miles across the state of brain death, I haven't been able to keep up with the recent doings of the board.

Yes, you were so anxious to dash in here and pick a fight that it wasn't necessary to find out what I'd actually said first. :-) And you've already forgotten what I've actually said about Rand, too.

Originally Posted by marichiko

They WORK at substandard wages, doing jobs that US workers refuse to do.

Because legal workers believe the jobs are worth more. "Jobs legal workers won't do" is a slogan that conveniently bundles low-skill or physical jobs with the wages that those exploitive employers--remeber them? feel like paying. The fact that conditions are so much worse in Mexico doesn't make the illegals heros for sneaking in here and exporting as much cash as possible. I guess I'm just not a pure enough Randite to beleive that the borders should be opened while we're still running as Socialist a state as we do.