The
Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone, and does not
necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com
or Google. Whether some like it or not the deportation of illegals is well
under way thanks to President Trump. And while it currently involves
only those with criminal records, eventually it will expand to
encompass what I call the
“rank and file” illegals, as in
those who came here solely for their promised
“free
stuff”...”stuff” which in
reality is anything but
“free.” Why so...because it's our
taxpayer dollars that help to fund all the programs and goodies the
illegals receive while Americans are hurting financially due to the
four disastrous Biden/Harris years.
But know that when said deportations do come to an end so too will
the monies being spent to feed, house, clothe, educate, and medically
take care of those who had no business coming here in the first
place. A good thing indeed for the monies spent on those crossing our
border illegally can now, if properly managed, be returned to the
American people, most especially our seniors and our military
veterans who seem to get the monetary shaft every time there is a
“monetary crisis.”
Simply, a
“monetary crisis“ was what we had been facing
when Joe Biden was in office, what with the federal government giving out
more dollars and cents than it took in. But now with DOGE exposing
what is a truly massive amount of governmental monetary waste, the
only fair thing to do is take the monies that will be saved when the
deportations are complete and either put those monies back into the programs that saw Biden putting American citizens last or simply give it back to we taxpayers...call it
“personal stimulus checks“ if need be. But either way a fair
amount of those saved monies should also be used to aid our veterans
in need for it's shameful that there are close to 33,000 homeless
veterans in our country today...veterans who served our country well.
It's way past time that the federal government...as well as state and
local governments...start spending more monetarily to help serve our
veterans and their needs instead of serving those who...and I cannot
say this enough...should never have been allowed to come here in the first place.
So what are some of the programs and services that our federal
taxpayer dollars are being spent on to aid those entering our country
illegally? To start with know that, in general, most of the welfare programs
that are focused on illegals, costs us billions of dollars each
year...billions of dollars that should be going to help struggling
middle and lower class American citizens. And also know that in many
cases the particular benefits in question sometimes sees illegals
receiving cash payments or
“direct deposit checks” courtesy of our
currently written
“Tax Code” laws.
Maybe the DOGE needs to start
looking into these codes for who wouldn't want to come here
knowing that
“Uncle Sam” seems more than willing to
“foot
the bill,” and in return all that's asked is to always vote the
Democrat party line.
And while we all tend to laugh at the political bureaucracy and
their “rub-it-into-our-faces” shenanigans, if truth be
told those who are part and parcel of said bureaucracy are smart
enough to know that few, if any, illegals will ever bite the hand of
those who seemingly attend to their every need, want, and wish..
Now, here are but three of the specific federal programs catering to
illegals along with the sums of monies having been laid out in each
case. Those three federal programs are welfare, Medicare, and
Medicaid, the program where illegals receive medical benefits
for emergency services.
In fact, in 2023...the year I've
based most of this article's figures on because it was one of the busiest years ever for illegal crossings...our
federal government did spend almost $66.5 billion on these folks. This
includes the more than $23 billion in federal medical expenditures
spent on illegals...spent while many Americans, even to this day,
still cannot afford health insurance...along with $11.6 billion in
welfare benefits ranging from food stamps to, in some cases, SSI
(Supplemental Security Income) additions, while many Americans continued living
from paycheck to paycheck.
And dare not forget that our Social Security system... what was
originally set up to be “
ensured income”
security for retired older American replete with “inflation-adjusted
payments”...still finds fraud being
committed by illegals as well, which when added into the cost of
Medicare and Medicaid fraud, sees we taxpayers being forced, in one
way or another, to bear that monetary burden as well. In fact, when
you add in
all “improper
payments” issued by Social
Security...including the cost incurred when illegals either steal a
Social Security card or create a false identity to obtain said card
and corresponding benefits...said monies equate to about $3 billion
per year. And when you then add together all the above stated
numbers, you'll see that close to $70 billion dollars of our taxpayer
funded monies went to illegals in 2023 not to “We
the American People” who in many cases
are still economically hurting. Remember, even a change in presidency
for the better does not always mean that the changes promised can be
achieved within the first “one hundred”
days.
Now here's something interesting regarding Social
Security fraud itself for while the fraud committed by illegals might
not be that big in number, illegals in general do affect Social
Security, and hence its monthly payouts. How so...because illegals
not only take jobs away from American citizens but by their getting
paid less than citizens do, and with Social Security being funded by
“dedicated payroll taxes”
paid by both employees and their employers as well as by income taxes
paid by some beneficiaries...less monies go into the “Social
Security Trust Fund” then normally
would. Simple math then dictates that less monies coming in
proportionately translates into less monies proportionately being
paid out to legal beneficiaries.
And this you, dear reader, might also find
interesting, In 2024 alone...as per the Social
Security Administration (SSA)...about 68 million
Americans received Social Security benefits each month which resulted
in about $1.5 trillion in benefits being paid out last year, So how
were those monies being divvied out? The average monthly benefit for
retired workers in 2024 was estimated at $1,927, which included a
3.2% cost-of-living (COLA) adjustment with the benefit rising to to
$1,976 at the beginning of 2025, which equates to roughly a $50
increase per month per beneficiary.
Wow! A whopping extra $50 per month per
beneficiary... now retirees, the disabled (who also do receive Social
Security benefits), and America's elderly can either go buy an extra
carton of eggs and an extra loaf of bread or maybe turn up the heat
in their homes...while illegals (in NYC for example) relax in luxury
hotels with their bodies warm and bellies full...sarcastically and
very angrily said of course.
And approximately how much does “each”
illegal border crosser cost us for their
anything but “free stuff”...in
2024, how about $8,776. And when you multiply that number by the
number of persons in an illegal family...lets say a mother, father,
and two children...that number equals $35,104 annually which divided
by 12 months equals $2,925 per month which is more than the average
monthly Social Security check is for one who has paid into the
system their entire working life.
But this monetary disaster is not only being committed on the
federal level, but on the state and local levels as well, especially
in
“blue” states and cities. Here are but a few examples with the first being, as per
DOGE, that in 2023 alone, the Biden/Harris administration saw both inflation and the cost of food staples
rising...saw $150.7 billion of our hard earned taxpayer dollars being
spent on giving illegals a continuation of their
“free ride”...with said cost inching even higher in 2024. And to make a bad
situation even worse, many major blue state liberal cities were
catering to illegals as well while turning their backs on needy
Americans, our homeless veterans included.
Here are but three examples:
1. Since 2022, New York City has
spent over $5.22 billion to provide shelter, food, and other so
deemed “essential” services on the almost quarter of a
million illegals now still overwhelming the city.
2. The sanctuary
city of Chicago...a city currently facing a budget shortfall of $1
billion...saw its mayor spending over $574.5 million on the 51,643
illegals that Texas Gov. Abbott rightfully bused to them.
3. The city
of Denver...yet another sanctuary city...has spent $356+ million to
“accommodate” the needs of the the 42,911 illegals also
bused there from Texas.
And all the examples I just stated are but the tip of the illegals
monetary “free stuff” iceberg... an iceberg where “Peter
is being robbed to pay Paul,” with “Peter” in
many cases being we taxpayers pocketbooks. Simply, these are
monies that would be better spent on programs for elderly American
citizens, our homeless veterans in need, and on those of “We
the People” who still do live paycheck to paycheck, and who collectively
still see no end in sight to the illegal nightmare we might never
wake up from. Let the deportations continue on...let the monies saved
be used to help American citizens...American citizens alone. Case closed.
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It's been almost a week since reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were killed live on national television by Vester Lee Flanagan II, and now after the shock has worn off a bit a national discourse has again been started by the Democrats about the need for added gun control. Forgetting the fact that guns will always be gotten by those who have NO business having them...as in the criminal element...as in those behaving badly...after this most recent shooting the issue has now zeroed in on the mentally ill.
Also, remember three key points as to what determines who can get a gun...point one: those who want a gun whether they be mentally ill or of the criminal element will always find a way to get a gun...legalities be damned. Point two: the myth that the more people who possess guns will always equate to more murders happening is simply NOT true. A report by a National Academy of Sciences panel said the evidence "does not credibly demonstrate a causal relationship between the ownership of firearms and the causes or prevention of criminal violence or suicide." And point three: it's on the order of judges and magistrates to decide who is or who is NOT legally mentally ill instead of allowing medical doctors to do so... meaning it's actually the legal system itself who has allowed the mentally ill to legally purchase firearms.
And without full medical disclosure being allowed, background checks remain nothing but a hill of beans proven by the fact that Flanagan legally purchased two Glock 9mm handguns last month from a federally licensed gun dealer in Virginia... and this purchase included the gun he used to murder Parker and Ward. Easily passing the required background check NO matter his job history, there was NOTHING in a criminal background check to prevent this transaction as NO medical history showed up to prevent the transaction.
And adding insult to injury, remember that in 2012, Obama signed the 2013 Fiscal Year National Defenses Authorization Act (NDAA) as part of the defense cuts, and this act included amendment #3109 which would take away the rights of veterans who were deemed mentally incompetent...meaning those diagnosed with PTSD or TBI...from owning a firearm. In fact, Obama actually has the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) determining if a veteran should have their all-important Second Amendment rights revoked...NOTHING like having the military itself stabbing its own 'Brothers in Arms' in the back...as #3109 states that "in order to protect the Second Amendment rights of veterans” they must be legally deemed mentally competent to “retain” their right to bear arms.
Proper treatment...two words that are intimately tied into the gun discourse for while someone might have a treatable mental illness...a mental illness that can be controlled with prescribed medications...there is NO guarantee said person will take their medications as prescribed or even that they will take them at all. And because there is NO way to track these people due to doctor/patient confidentiality laws and with judges who have NO medical background making the decision as to someone's mental health status, you can see why we face the problems we currently do.
And when misinformed and misguided but mostly well-meaning folks scream for even more laws that try to take guns away from law-abiding citizens whenever a mentally ill person with a million warning signs commits a murder, the already most heavily regulated product in America becomes the perpetrator instead of the one pulling the trigger. YES...it makes sense to stop people with criminal records or mental illness from buying firearms legally, but like I said at the beginning of this article, the mentally ill and criminals will always find a way to get a gun and it's those people we need to protect ourselves from...and the Second Amendment gives us the right to do so whether the liberal left likes it or NOT...period.