The California gubernatorial debate brought to my attention our five billion dollar state deficit. This immediately brought to mind the annual $10.5 billion dollar cost Californians bear for the education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens.
In 1994, those same services for illegals cost Californians $1.1 billion. 1994 was the same year California voters rebelled and overwhelmingly passed Proposition 187. Since Prop 187 was overturned, the cost of illegals in California has increased an astounding one billion dollars averaged annually!
The K-12 education system spends approximately $7.7 billion a year to school the children of illegal aliens who now constitute 15 percent of the student body. This would explain why our schools are overcrowded and underfunded though taxes for education keep rising. The upcoming state ballots boast $21 billion dollars in taxes and bonds, or four times our current budget deficit, to fund the increasing costs of state education. This year’s education budget is the largest in California’s history.
California’s “cheap labor” costs the average state household $1,183 a year. Even if you want to assume the burden, how long do you think the middle class can sustain? The middle class requires the use of and pays for the now overburdened services provided free of charge to non-citizens.
The cost of illegals in California is the difference between a $5 billion dollar budget deficit and a $5 billion dollar budget surplus. Why are so many, especially in government, afraid to address this obvious issue?
This is no time to suffer white man’s guilt. Central Americans are not fleeing war torn countries like Somalia or Darfur for self-preservation. They choose to risk their lives to cross the border because it’s easier on them, not us. It’s easier to use and abuse our system to ‘better their lives’ instead of bettering their lives by improving their own countries.
What kind of people provide themselves a better way of life by forcing others to pay higher taxes and work harder to afford them that better life? And the $5 billion dollar question, what kind of idiots will continue to fund it?
Jannette JD Frazier