| I was wondering when somebody would point that out. While Hispanics are on welfare in large numbers, they're not the welfare hogs that whites are. There are far more Caucasians who are willfully not working and spewing forth babies for a larger check every month than Hispanics coming into the country every year. Still, it's a bit different for a US citizen to draw welfare - regardless of whether or not it's rightly deserved - than for someone to waltz into the country and live off the work of others indefinitely. I've no qualms with someone using welfare as a jumping-off point, to get some money to survive on, as long as that's all it is: a start. Oh, the difference between immigrants of today and 100 years ago? Legality. 100 years ago, there were no laws in existence to restrict immigration. Anybody who wanted to could come over, move in, and start anew. There was no welfare system. Anyone who came to America had to work their butt off to survive. Today, registered immigration is restricted to a certain percentage by country. Today, a very skewed welfare system is in place so that it's not necessary to work to put food on the table. Anyone who breaks the former and takes advantage of the latter, in my estimation, doesn't belong here. This, of course, brings the problems of how can you tell the difference and what do you do about it? |
