Common Sense Politics

As Common Sense Authors, we have written several articles in the past about the Immigration situation in America, more specifically the Illegal Immigration situation. While the attention in recent weeks has been on the cost of the war in Iraq, another major expense in our country has been what it costs the taxpayers of America to pay for people who should not even be in our country in the first place: The Illegal Immigrants!

Accurate numbers are very hard to nail down so we will stay with approximations here. The war in Iraq is reportedly costing between ten and twelve billion dollars per month, an annual total of between 120 and 144 billion dollars. This is a large sum of money, no question about it. And since the Federal Government has not had a balanced budget for the past forty or more years, this amount is added annually to the national debt that is currently approaching 9.5 trillion dollars. That is a number 9 with 12 zeros behind it. Almost unimaginable but factual!

Now then, we came across a report entitled “What costs more per year than the Iraq War?” It was on a well sourced website and carries the above title. In 14 categories, it lists the costs spent annually on Illegal Aliens and then totals those numbers up to $338.3 billion. Please spend the time to visit this site and check the individual categories for yourselves. These expenses are being incurred not only by the Federal Government but shared with the States, County and City governments across the country. At the bottom of this article is a list of 49 United States Senators who voted during 2006 to extend Social Security Benefits to Illegal Aliens in 2008. The list includes 38 Democrats and 11 Republicans.

While costs are shared by Federal, State and local governments we have estimated the Federal share to be about 120 billion dollars (out of the total of $338 billion). That is almost the same amount the Iraq war is costing U.S. taxpayers annually. Of course, in Washington D.C., legislators are only concerned about the expenditures of the war and want to end the war as quickly as possible to save money. Democrats constantly whine about this money and elaborate on what better projects we could spend these amounts of ‘greenbacks’on. But not a word comes out of their mouths about the hidden costs to America for having millions of Illegal Aliens living in this country. To the contrary, liberals and even moderates believe that we cannot live without these people, which we would all starve because it’s these people who put food on our tables. If they would not be willing to work in the fields and harvest produce and fruit, we would have nothing to live on.

We here at Common Sense Politics have to simply shake our heads over such utter nonsense and wonder, once again, why they do not get challenged by the media when they make such ridiculous statements. To the contrary, the media membership is only too happy to cooperate with these folks and spread their words so that we all understand how important the Illegal Aliens (they do not call them that, they are simply undocumented workers) should be to all of us. While this is ludicrous, we have to wonder why the members of Congress are unable to legitimize these 12 to 20 millions undocumented workers without any great effort. And even go a step further and open our borders to all hardworking people around the world to come and “put food on our tables”. Bring them here as soon as we can process them, by giving them drivers’ licenses and citizenship without tests, etc….

Is this crazy or what? It lacks even the smallest degree of common sense! But these 535 elected officials in Congress have no problem telling us, the taxpayers of America, that we will not survive without millions of Illegal Aliens as they do the work Americans refuse to do. There is only one final question to ask after this: “Why are we collectively electing these people year after year to membership in Congress and reward them every couple of years with re-elections? There is no common sense answer to this!