Sunday, January 23, 2011

From the Department of Glaringly Obvious Headlines

"Welfare Tab for Children of Illegal Immigrants Estimated At $600M in L.A. County" [Alone]

According to L.A. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich.

That figure does not include education costs, by the way, which would make the actual number even higher by another couple hundred million dollars or so.

This situation is one of the major reasons why California is utterly insolvent and is currently teetering on the unheard-of-by-a-state precipice of seeking bankruptcy protection.

The issue simply has to be promptly resolved on both the state and federal levels if any progress at all is to be made in reducing the massive debts that are being unfairly heaped upon the average citizen or legal resident.

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