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jongould -> RE: Should these people be considered illegal and refused licenses? (4/19/2008 9:01:03 PM)
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Here is my opinion for what it is worth:
Most people either need to drive or be able to use mass transportation in order for basic survival; the state has no right to infringe upon this basic right either by requiring or denying licensure for either vehicle or persons.
In fact it is the responsibility of the state to assure that all of its citizens have access to safe transportation as well as the training to safely use it. I am all for driving regulations fines/punishment for those who break regulations and laws; just that those laws must stop short of keeping someone from their means of survival.
By the way that is inclusive of the so called illegal alien as well; fact is that before 1947 there was no such thing as an illegal alien; immigration law is a recent device that has no basis within the constitution of the United States of America.
Some have wrongly claimed that it is the illegal Latina/os that have placed such a burden upon our Medicare/Social Security system in the US. While it is really the US FDA, (which by the way has a budget larger than all of the former Soviet Union Countries combined), which claims to be protecting the American people while it is their real duty to make sure that no drugs are manufactured and sold in the United States unless manufactured by the large US Drug companies.
Allow me to tell how bad this really is:
My wife has complete kidney failure. We met and married in Indonesia. While in Indonesia her monthly supply of dialysis fluid cost $200.00. It was manufactured in Singapore. When we decided to come back to live in the US she switched to equipment and fluid made by Baxter in Dearborn, Illinois; the cost went up to $400.00 per month. I thought that this was reasonable because after all it had to be shipped half way around the world.
Before we left for the US I tried my best to get the needed dialysis fluid ahead of our arrival in the United States. No one would sell it; not even with a prescription. We arrived in the US and found a dialysis clinic who would deliver her monthly supply of fluid; the cost for the same Baxter fluid from Dearborn, Illinois: $18,000.00 per month, plus another $450.00 per month for the twice a month doctor visits to keep her US prescription current as well as a monthly $400.00 per month in lab fees. By the way the suggested cost of the Baxter Fluid in the US Baxter Catalog is $232.37 per box for an 8 day supply which consists of little more than a 1.5% solution of sugar in a sterile saline solution. They continue to charge my insurance and Medi-Care nearly $19,000.00 per month. While you are wondering where your Medi-Care and Social Security has gone to don't forget to ask your Senators who passed the laws, and the FDA who regulates those laws, and the Drug Companies who have taken everything; don't blame it on the poor illegal Latina/os.
The Governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, won a major victory for residents of Minnesota. Now Minnesota residents may purchase the drugs made by the same large drug manufactures for sale in Canada with out the huge US FDA Mandated US Drug Company mark ups. There has not much been said about what the Governor has done; however, it may turn out to be the most significant thing to happen in the US in this decade.
Unless the baby boomers do something now to stop this madness in the US there will be little left of either Medicare or Social Security come time to retire. There are a lot worse things in this country of ours than illegal aliens.
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