Legal Immigrants Are Stressing The System, The Illegals Are Breaking It

Pardon me, but these folks don't exactly look like the cream of the crop I'm afraid...

The Illegals are double crushing the system as they consume more of our services per capita and yet pay nothing in most cases to receive them. America has to take care care of it's own before we can save the world and take in every single broken machine around the world and foot all the bills to boot.

Worldnet Daily has a great piece this morning itemizing the damages to our infrastructure and systems designed for moderate population gains which also count on the people to fully contribute to this vast network of top notch world class living and it's brutally expensive upkeep, many of the newcomers just aren't cutting it, and we can no longer afford to pick up the slack.

We are now at the now at the breaking point, is that not obvious? We know they don;t care so we must force the government to start protecting our interests and stop having them stolen by illegals that crash the party and don't ever pay the cover charges and steal all the beer and food then cruise out the back door with their pockets and bellies full.

Immigrants ravage U.S. infrastructure

WND FRIDAY "The United States will need $1.6 trillion to repair damage to its infrastructure from a massive influx of immigrants, a new report reveals.

In his report titled, 'The Twin Crises: Immigration and Infrastructure,' prominent researcher Edwin S. Rubenstein examines 15 categories of infrastructure: airports, border security, bridges, dams and levees, electricity (the power grids), hazardous waste removal, hospitals, mass transit, parks and recreation facilities, ports and navigable waterways, public schools, railroads, roads and highways, solid waste and trash, and water and sewer systems.

Rubenstein, a financial analyst and former contributing editor of Forbes and economics editor of National Review, claims the nation is facing a crisis – with immigration responsible for at least 80 percent of spending needed to expand the U.S. infrastructure before the middle of this century.

'If the infrastructure crisis could be fixed by spending money, there would be no crisis,' Mr. Rubenstein explained in a statement. 'Since 1987, capital spending on transportation infrastructure has increased by 2.1 percent per year above the inflation rate. At $233 billion (2004 dollars), infrastructure is already one of the largest categories of government spending. Our infrastructure is 'crumbling' because population growth has overwhelmed the ability of even these"

Hospitals

Rubenstein cites a recent construction boom among the nation's hospitals. As many as 60 percent of America's hospitals are either under construction or have plans for new facilities.

"But we have a two-tier hospital system in the U.S. Hospitals in poor areas – that serve primarily uninsured immigrants and many Medicaid patients – cannot afford their facilities," he writes. "The uncompensated costs are killing them. In California, 60 emergency departments (EDs) have closed to avoid the uncompensated costs of their largely illegal alien caseloads."

Illegal aliens use emergency rooms more than twice as often as U.S. citizens, and providing their uncompensated care has been the death of many emergency departments.

In 2006, more than 46 percent of illegals did not have medical insurance. Although illegal aliens are not supposed to be eligible for Medicaid, they receive Emergency Medicaid and their children are entitled to all benefits that legal immigrants receive.

Because hospitals are forced to care for Medicaid recipients, the government program never covers full costs of service. It underpaid hospitals by $11.3 billion in 2006, he wrote.

Water and electricity

Rubenstein referenced immigration trends revealing that aliens often choose to live in cities with strained water supplies – especially near the border – and their sheer numbers have made conservation efforts nearly impossible.

"Cities like San Antonio, El Paso, and Phoenix could run out of water in 10 to 20 years," he writes. San Diego's water company has resorted to a once-unthinkable option: recycling toilet water for drinking."

Due to immigration, demand for water exceeds the California State Water Project's capacity. Now Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed building a $6 billion reservoir. Approximately one-fifth of the state's electricity is tied up in collection, storage and transportation of the water.

Electric utilities are expected to require an additional $142 billion to keep generator capacity at recommended levels before 2050 due to the increasing population. continued

---