[quote=Rt.66]I won’t comment on illegals because I have not walked a mile in their shoes.

I can’t help but wonder about the logic of stating $5 billion spent giving freebies to people who are not citizens is peanuts YET laying off school teachers who are WORKING (not getting freebies) for the money they cost the state and who educate our children, is sound cost cutting???…?

Wow, its hard to wrap your head around that kind of logic.[/quote]

Teachers are not the most fragile element of our society and are also not the sole source of our children’s sustenance in a recession.We can pick up the slack and it is known that we will. I am the last to want to see teachers kicked to the curb and programs cut.

It is nuts however, to think that immigrants workers are not a large and fragile complementary component of our society. Kicking them too hard sends them right past the curb and into the gutter and we will not have such a complimentary experience with the consequences of that.

If changes are to be made with this number of vulnerable people, they should be made gradually and in good measure to possible economic,public health, crime, and humanitarian consequences. Despite how messed up everything seems, I believe that behind the limited view we have into politics and business there is serious consideration of these complex issues.