El Paso and Food Stamps

One of the stories that came out over Christmas here in El Paso is that 25% of the people in El Paso receive food stamps--as the percentage increases with the economic downturn.


Yep. That is right. One in four people in El Paso is receiving food stamps. That means that taxpayers (not all of the remaining 3/4's pay income taxes) are supporting one in four people in El Paso, to the extent of making sure that they don't go hungry (as I have said, it is a total leftist Big Lie that there is any real reason for any person to go hungry in this country, and very few do).


Are we heading to the point where most of the peoople in this country are being supported by a minority of taxpayers? I am afraid so. If you think a society can exist long on that basis, you are deluded. Food stamps are not even the core problem here, when even General Motors is asking for welfare.


There is actaully another point to be made, based on this statistic (and otehrs regarding Hispanics in this country). Does the U.S. have an obligation to handle the poverty problem in Mexico? If you answer "yes" to that question, you are an irrational leftist like Alan Colmes, who believes in open borders (incidentally believing that we have an obligation to take care of the poor in Mexico, even if it means letting them move here and collect welfare here).


Yes, a substantial percentage of Mexican-Americans in the United States are recent immigrants from Mexico, to the extent they are not illegal immigrants who are illegally in this country. Yet, leftists (stupid, politically dishonest hacks that they are) quote "statistics" on Hispanics as if it is a failure of the U.S. that Hispanics in this country appear to be poorer, and less well educated, than other ethnic groups.


It is insane to expect anything else. This is a failure of Mexico, and other countries, from which these people (and their families) recently came. You are an idiot if you regard these statistics as evidence of a failure by this country. You are also, as stated, almost certainly a leftist idiot deliberately mistating the significance of these statistics to push your own agenda. These statistics are certainly no evidence at all of ethnic "discrimination" in this country. The same thing happened with other immigrants, such as the Italians and others who came through Ellis Island. It takes awhile for these immigrants to succeed in this country, but most did. The difference now is that we act like these people have no obligation to better themselves, and that the rest of us are not only obligated to support them, but all of the other poor people living elsewhere in the world (in less desirable places than this country).


We cannot remain this stupid and maintain the standard of living, and opportunity, that brought these people to this country in the first place. Yes, this is directly relevant on the illegal immigration debate--a debate in which leftists refuse to engage in favor of deception.