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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-26-07 09:25 AM
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$100 billion divided by 12 million undocumented workers
is over $8000 per worker to address the issue.

It's not a big deal to spend an additional $100 billion over 4 months in Iraq without raising taxes, so "illegal immigration" shouldn't be a problem either. That's enough to pay each of them $24K a year to not compete for jobs!
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jilln Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-26-07 09:27 AM
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1. Hey, if you pay me enough
I won't compete for jobs either.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-26-07 09:27 AM
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2. We have the resources to do it!
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-26-07 09:33 AM
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3. I want all the ILLEGAL pot smokers deported. nt.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-26-07 09:36 AM
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4. I have no problems with people who LEGALLY get zonked out of their minds,
but pot-smokers do it ILLEGALLY and hold the rule of law in disdain. Deportation is too good for them.

Unfortunately, there's too many of them for my $24K a year payoff program to work.
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-26-07 09:38 AM
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5. BUT
They are

ILLEGAL

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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-26-07 09:39 AM
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6. But we have to fight them over there so they won't compete with
us over here!!!!

Or something like that.

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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-26-07 09:41 AM
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7. 12 million is nearly HALF the population of Iraq
When $400 billion is divided by 25 million, that's $16,000 for every man, woman, and child in Iraq. For that amount of money, we could just load 'em on planes and 'emigrate' 'em to any nation on earth as cheap labor. Problem solved?

:eyes:
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-26-07 09:41 AM
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8. Can I have whatever your on?
Americans grouse when we try to take care of our poor. Imagine what they would scream about if we funded Mexicans to stay home.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-26-07 09:39 PM
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9. For chrissake, I'm not serious.
However, the numbers do illustrate the financial magnitude of the issues.
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