[StBernard] Free Lunch?? This should make everyone think.

[Westley Annis]

Apparently this has been circulating for some time.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/a/cheap_tomatoes.htm





	         This should make everyone think, be you Democrat,
Republican or
	Independent.
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	                Free Lunch...
	                900 teachers just got laid off from the Los Angeles
Unified
	School District . They are $650,000 over their annual budget.
	
	                The following English teacher helps to explain one
area that
	looms large over California's educational crisis.
	
	
	                This English teacher has phrased it the best I've
seen yet.
	
	                This should make everyone think, be you Democrat,
Republican
	or Independent.
	
	
	        From a California school teacher - - -
	
	        "As you listen to the news about the student protests over
illegal
	immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
	        I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language
department at a
	large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1
school,
	meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income
levels.
	
	        Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High,
Bell
	Gardens, Huntington Park , etc.. where these students are
protesting, are
	also Title 1 schools.
	
	        Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch
program.
	When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll
-- but a
	full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make
a
	Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and
trays
	of it being dumped in the trashuneaten.
	        (OUR TAX DOLLARS ATWORK)
	
	        I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or
at
	least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones.
The
	school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant
girls
	(some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the
inconvenience of
	having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.
	        (OUR TAX DOLLARS ATWORK)
	
	        I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk
losing
	funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for
	anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new
computers
	for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later,
have been
	carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel
humbled
	and grateful to have a free education in America.
	        (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
	
	        I have had to intervene several times for young and
substitute
	teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students
here in
	the country less than 3 months who raised so much hell with the
female
	teachers, calling them "Putas"(whores)and throwing things, that the
teachers
	were in tears.
	
	        Free medical, free education, free food, day care, etc, etc,
etc. Is
	it any wonder they feel entitled not only to be in this country but
to
	demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
	
	        To those who want to point out how much these illegal
immigrants
	contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and
housekeeper
	and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real
world of
	illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
	
	        Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical
costs,
	more crime, lower standards of education in our schools,
overcrowding, new
	diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
	
	        Americans, We need to wake up. The guest worker program will
be a
	disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone
in their
	right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?
	
	        It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A
third-world
	culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting
	pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to
assimilate,
	and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about
"political
	correctness " that we don't have the will to do anything about it.
	
	        If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this
to
	everyone you know including your Congressmen and Senators.
	
	        CHEAP LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is
about?
	
	        Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
	
	        Consumers don't want expensive produce.
	
	        Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.
	
	        But the bottom line is cheap labor The phrase "cheap labor"
is a
	myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor."
	
	        Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five
children.
	He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six
dependents, he
	pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an
Income Tax
	Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.
	
	        He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
	
	        He qualifies for food stamps..
	
	        He qualifies for free (no deductible), no co-pay) health
care.
	
	        His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
	
	        He requires bilingual teachers and books.
	
	        He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
	
	        If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify
for
	SSI.
	        Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of
this is
	at (our) taxpayer's expense.
	
	        He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or
homeowners
	insurance.
	
	        Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and
printed
	material.
	
	        He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to
$30.00/hour in
	benefits.
	
	        Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left
after
	paying their bills AND his.
	
	        The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime,
graffiti and
	trash clean-up.
	
	        Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!