This is a letter sent to controlcongress.com.
Dear Senator Sarbanes,
As a native Marylander, and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.–>My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill’s provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.–>Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I’m excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.–>Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures.
I could save almost $10,000 a year. Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as “in-state” tuition rates for many
colleges throughout the United States for my son.–>Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver’s license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still have college age children driving my car.
If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal
(retroactively, if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative.Thank you for your assistance.
Your Loyal Constituent,
Pete McGlaughlin
So this is going to be it huh? The illegal immigration issue…are you suggesting we install a policy like France, or one resembling Germany? For any American voters intent on understanding this issue fully, I’d suggest doing some research on the policies of those two countries – inundated with Muslim immigrants as opposed to our seemingly less faith-heavy hispanics. Look at those two countries and see what the end results of public policies being pushed here in the US actually look like.
I get a kick out of people living in this country in this time…a blessing when you think about it, considering that fate could have landed any one of us in Africa or the Middle East just as easy, we’re better than any other people on earth at feeling entitled.
We’re entitled to invade a soverign nation and alter the lives of hundreds of thousands who either die or flee…for the sake of cheaper oil to put in our cars. But don’t think (this is to everyone in the world and in this country who doesn’t have a social security number) that you deserve anything but a “made in China” size 12 boot up your ass courtesy of the American people. What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine, and pick up the garbage you come across on your way out!
Joke’s on us though, because the illegals are here to stay, regardless of how many we round up and send back. That ship has sailed. The question now is whether we assimilate them or create a problem we’ll have to deal with in the future.
The right-wing “tough on crime” attitude towards immigration is going to be just as effective as the “war on drugs” has been.
Great retort to Pete. As I was reading his letter, I thought it made sense. It does, with a limited context.
Actually, excellent post. I don’t know really anything about German or French immigration policy. I can only assume it is much more liberal than the US. I do remember a ton of Turks while I was there in 2000, and that ethnic group being Europe’s version of illegal Latinos.
I live in a town heavily populated with migrant workers. They do have some bad traits. Latino men are macho and refused to not drive after drinking. So they wreck their cars, killing other people and themselves. This happens at least weekly.
I work at a hospital, and it is true that Latinos use up its service lavishly. A lot of Diabetes and related complications that advance much too far before they are treated. There is also an atrocious language barrier when the patient speaks absolutely no English.
The French system is uber-draconian, not about assimilation at all, and recently their immigrants torched cars and rioted for days. Germany on the other hand is now coming around to the realization that regardless of what the public or government’s respective perception of the immigrants happen to be, they’re not going anywhere. So you can either decide to deal with the issue or have it remain a “problem”…one that can not be solved without once again firing up the ovens.
Ah yes, realism…does that still work?
One word to decline health care costs:
Prevention
This is the word I think the industry stays away from, as treatment is what brings in the $$. Health care workers I’ve known and spoken to insist that the volume of work is always growing, that there isn’t a moment of down time. I see new medical centers for all sorts of things poping up constantly. Private investors are raking in the dough, yet over 30% of the population isn’t covered, and the government denies itself the ability to barter for lower prices on drugs.
Republicans are proving to be much too attached to industry, making them incapable of fixing what’s wrong. Dan Bartlett said on a talk show that the government doesn’t need to negotiate lower prices for drugs, “because they’re already cheap enough”.
You don’t need a business degree from Harvard to understand what’s wrong with that statement. If someone inside of WalMart said that about ANY product purchased from a supplier, they’d be fired in two seconds!
Preventive medicine might not be good for the big wigs, but it should be good for insuance companies since they are the ones paying for the treatment.
i just mention this because I tried to get Wellbutrin through my insurance company to aid ibn smoking cessation. My MD prescribed it and everything. However, the company denied my claim. My doc had to give me free samples of the drug instead.
So if I’m trying to quit smoking, I’m on my own. If I get cancer or emphysema, then of course the insurance company will pay for all treatment. Makes no sense.
I completely missed this part, don’t know how…now, nutmeg does work, you have to drink it, very icky, but it’ll make the teletubbies bearable.
But not until they make you fight for the coverage you paid for.
Quantities?
I’d go with 2 tablespoons the first time around and wait about an hour. I think that when I tried it (KP duty in the Army) I used more, but 2 tbsp should be a good indicator.