DACA to end

[Belsnickel]

(09-01-2017, 09:37 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Hmm, I'm not so sure about that.  I have another friend, who works in HR.  He says that most of his Latino men readily trade family insurance benefit, for an extra couple dollars on the hour.  He said that most of them aren't legally married to their "wives", so that they can put her and the kids on Medicare.  (that may not still be the truth, today.  This was a convo from years back)  Immigrant people aren't stupid, they play the system to their maximum benefit.

So, your assertion that they are contributing to a system that they receive no benefit from, is at best a push.

I have a cousin that does this. Pisses me off to no end. He makes damn good money for SW PA, but they have never been married so that she can sit around on her ass and they get government help for their one kid. Meanwhile, I have another cousin that works his ass off for a pittance, his wife is physically incapable of most jobs but she does grant writing for a PSU satellite campus and they refuse any government help out of pride. They and their two kids still at home (which the one just graduated high school and is working now, but because of his bout with cancer it's hard to say how well that will work out in the long run) are dirt ***** poor and get ignored by all of their close family that could help.

Sorry, tangential rant is tangential.