itsmyjob wrote:
Ha I am far from lacking compassion. 3 years ago my wife and I took in an old Mexican Viet Nam veteran who is now a part of the family. My wife drove from Kansas to Fresno California to pick him up. Everything the man owns fit in the bed of my pickup truck. He will be 74 next month and has a new lease on life. Did it disrupt or change our daily lives? Yes it has. I wouldn't hesitate to do it again. Talk shot to someone else I myself believe in action not all talk.
It was about 45 years ago a friend was terribly concerned for a 20ish year old Mexican man that had a job, but he was homeless. No problem, I'll make room and took him in. Took him grocery shopping thinking he may have preferred foods to eat. At checkout, he said he didn't have any cash, no problem I'll get the food. Bought him a bed and room and boarded him since he didnt have much money for several months. His girlfriend picked him up and shuttled him back and forth to were he worked outside ( based on conversions, I supposed he was a fruit and vegetable picker since the girlfriend took him to work at different locations. After nearly six months of paying all his expenses, again one day we went for groceries but this time at checkout I was a few dollars cash short he said no problem in his broken english and pulled out his wallet, then mixed in between dozens of checks he sorted out the few dollars I needed.
When we got home I asked what those checks were, he eagerly pulled them out, thousands of dollars. These were pay from (not picking fruit) construction work.
This was around 1978, I was a cook earning just enough to barely get by, with a pregnant wife unable to work for medical concerns to her and the unborn. This guy earned three times what I did, and he thought it was just fine living free off of me and his girlfriend, because he then would be able to save enough money that when he returned to Mexico he could by a ranch.
I could give more details but to keep it short, he believed he was "entitled" since Americans have it so easy. I was at that time in my life living at poverty level with no skills or higher education, working my butt off with every overtime hour I could get, terrible health insurance, poor diet, no entertainment dollars, wearing the bottom of my shoes out.
My experience was very very different than yours and no doubt tainted once I learned how he thought about himself and Americans. Would I help someone else if they needed it, I would for the right person but as far as I'm concerned send the Mexicans packing.
How it it they know if they can get to California, they will have housing assistance, transportation assistance, medical insurance, cash and food entitlements? But if you are Black or White no kids, it's food benefits, no housing, no cash. I see them now as Locust invaders eating up America's resources, and America turns away many deserving Americans.