Author Topic: Should Legal, Non-Citizen Immigrants Receive Food Stamps?  (Read 1201 times)

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Re: Should Legal, Non-Citizen Immigrants Receive Food Stamps?
« Reply #25 on: February 01, 2011, 04:43:08 PM »
let me throw this out there

We have homeless people who are that way for whatever reason
We have people who live from paycheck to paycheck( I am in this group, though i don't struggle, as others might)
We have people who abuse the welfare system
Some of our senior citizens who didn't save enough money in time and live off of ss , can barely afford their prescriptions
Then we have people are do very well, Have good jobs, have served their country through education and/or military
We have different kinds of people on different kinds of financial wavlengths.
We have people who have come here illegally, try to live off the system, and we spend money to detain and deport them under an unknown time
We have people who come to our country legally wanting to become citizens(to these people, and rightly so, that they should have the witherewal financially to be here and not have to live off the system)

We can't exactly say ok, people who want to become citizens have to have the finances, yet people are legal residents who the government helps(or the homelss, seniors citizens), we can't say to them, you can't afford to live here therefore we are going to ship you somewhere else.
There is no logic to the system.....
I will say this, there is a huge difference between a helping hand, and a hand out
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