Dear PV,

One other consideration is the health care system here in the US. Some (shall we call them Ls) complain about the nonexistence of national health service in the country. Again, their arguments defy reality.

My wife is a nurse at a hospital in Southern California at a hospital that is in financial trouble (as are many in the Mexican border states). Why, you might ask, is a hospital in trouble in the midst of a health-care crisis. Well, says I, many of the patients now - if not the majority - are "self-pay." That is a code for Never Pay.

After all, most of the people on "self-pay" are illegal (or marginally legal since their sponsors [ if they have them] signed agreements with our government to provide financial help, etc., to these people). Anyhow, the law requires all hospitals to take in all comers - whether they can pay or not. In other words, we already have that Socialist Utopia going for non-citizens - and they KNOW it! The result can only be the same that happened in the Soviet Union - chaos and collapse.

For those who think I am Xenophobic, my grandparents were LEGAL immigrants. My grandfather had to work in the coal mines in this country for over a year before he could afford to bring my grandmother over. My wife is also a LEGAL immigrant. We waited 7 years for her to be able to get her citizenship. Then she had to take a civics test - in ENGLISH, not her native language! We also sponsored a family to come into this country. We knew and accepted the financial responsibility this put on us. The children are now all College Graduates and the parents worked and saved to achieve this end. We were never put at risk that we would have to pay for
their medical care or any other sort of care.

So, to the Ls that do, please stop calling people names when they are against the open-border, open-registration policies of the Left.

William Carpenter
California