So today I went on Drudge Report, because I know that website is one of the only sources of real journalism. As I flip through the ridiculous headlines, I stumble upon the following headline Immigration may threaten health vote. Looks like my people have ruined everything again.
The articles details how members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) are ruining health care for everyone by saying that illegal immigrants should be able to buy into public insurance.
But CHC members, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the group’s message was clear: Drop your insistence on preventing illegal immigrants from accessing the public exchange, even if their only option is to pay for insurance plans entirely out of their own pockets.
Paying for health insurance entirely out of their own pockets with the money they earned? How ridiculous. Now even though this clearly is ridiculous, I didn't fully understand until I read this enlightening comment by TIREDOFIT:
What is not to understand? ILLEGAL Immigrants! They are breaking a law by being here and want everyone to not only allow them to continue to do it, but reward them on the taxpayer dollar as well? We have to follow the Geneva Conventions regarding war and terrorists, maybe we should find out what other countries do with people that enter their countries illegally and follow their lead?
And also this flawless logic from WEBB, demonstrating that this is clearly not a race issue:
What you are experiencing is the fall or decline of USA as we have known it. What Americans of European descent has realize that AfrAMs have not, that they, AfAMs, are the lowest on the class structure. They have been replaced. If The sanctuary cities of California is any indication, especially with America's declining status in world affairs economically, and what Nialls Fergunson stated in his articles that America will be another Latin american economy like Mexico, we better be prepared for racism and hatred by those from the Surenos in the political system. Expect decay...like Los mexi-angeles.
What a persuasive argument. I mean, how stupid could I be? Clearly they're illegal, which means they are terrible people who deserve to die. Luckily my family isn't illegal. My aunt actually left Cuba from a boat. She was one of the crazies who had a problem with Castro's communist regime (which is ironic, because I'm a liberal so I must be a communist). My grandparents and father had it easier, they were able to fly out of the country. They filled up my father's, my aunt's and uncle's toys with all their valuables and pretty much left with only the shirts on their backs. Then they spent a year in Mexico, eventually coming to the United States. But then that crazy liberal Reagan allowed amnesty, so they're all legal, even though they entered the country ILLEGALLY!!!
Then my grandmother was forced to go back to college so she could start teaching again. She actually was qualified to teach English, but not Spanish. In order for her to get her appropriate Spanish degree, she had to take Spanish 101 (even I bypassed that, and believe me my Spanish es muy mal). She got this degree while raising her 5 kids and working nights as a nurse. Then she promptly stole the job of Spanish teacher from a natural born American who could have taught it better.
And really, what am I doing in this country anyway? I have a Hispanic last name. Who am I to ask for health care? Oh, but it's okay because I'm legal, right? None of this is actually about racism at all. My family decided to speak English like good Americans and do our best to assimilate. Let's put all the illegals in a box. Let's dehumanize them, refuse them health care, hey, let's even refuse them food (that'll get them out of here!). Let's not treat them as human beings who deserve respect, let's think of my family as the exception and not the rule, most Mexicans (because let's face it, all Hispanics are Mexicans even if they come from Cuba or Colombia) are lazy, they don't deserve anything.