We need to take care of our own people first

[Unregistered]

Another Interesting opinion from www.buffalo.com

You are not replying to the acutal writer but your opinion is important.


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We need to take care of our own people first

8/21/2003

Congratulations to Central Park United Methodist Church for paying the rent and buying food for the first month for the Somali Bantu family on Bird Avenue. But who will pay the next 11 months? Or years? My church brought a Somali family here five years ago, so I know what is required.
And with minimal English language, educational and job skills, how will these immigrants get an "entry level job" in 180 days? And where is this "abundance of entry level jobs" in Buffalo? Do they pay enough to live on? I doubt it. And what about health insurance? Will this family go on Medicaid? Of course. Medicaid is already overextended. About 41 million Americans have no health insurance. How many of them live in Buffalo?

Buffalo is bankrupt, paying $1.2 million a year for a control board. The school system is in fiscal trouble, the state is almost bankrupt and the federal government is paying billions to rebuild Iraq. We can't afford these immigrants. We already have desperately poor people in Buffalo who need food, shelter, health insurance and an entry-level job.

And yet The News article said 300 to 500 more Bantu refugees will be coming to Western New York. Get real, whoever is responsible for this.

EVELYNN J. WOLF
Kenmore

[sbGUY27]

Goes to show you the caliber of idiots we have here. Do gooders who don't think past the good feeling of bringing these usless people over here. Now I have to be burdened by more welfare cases. I want to know what gives these churches the right to do this. Are these somilies even christian. Or is the church looking for converts.

[Curmudgeon]

Just a general observation...

I'm not going to attack your sentiments, but study after study indcates that immigrants are usually a net boost to an economy. Most people don't want to hear that, but it's true. It ain't easy getting here (unless you're a mexican and can hop the fence). So, the average immigrant is usually smarter and more ambitious than the average guy in the country he comes from. Over time, you are adding "performing players" to your team, which is your community. The country he comes from is left with the underperformers who are too lazy to move.

A sure sign that a region is experiencing tough economic times is "immigrant bashing". It happens all over the world when times get tough. Look at the Jews in WWII - talk about a bashing....

The above mentioned "performers move/underperformers stay" paradigm also applies to people LEAVING Buffalo as well. Something to think about, for sure.....

[sbGUY27]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95395,00.html



Check it out

[WNYresident]

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taken from that article


"There is currently talk on Capitol Hill about a guest worker program that would allow its participants to earn residency. Some members of Congress have made concrete proposals. Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, has proposed that participants in a guest worker program be given individual investment accounts, funded by payroll taxes, over which the worker would have complete control (a power that even American citizens do not have). Under some proposals, participants in guest worker programs would have their health care, and that of their family, paid for by the federal government."

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We need to vote out the Idiots that come up with this type of idea. The time to allow things like this is over, the world is not what is was 100 years ago and I"M tired of supporting other people. THe very old, children, and the handicap are about the only noble cause to help.

[Unregistered]

And you notice they will have more rights than us. And how they lower wages by taking jobs here.

[morphinebrian]

My girlfriend is a canadian, from Fort Erie (15 minutes from my house when the bridge is clear), and its easier bringing in those people here than it is for us to get an apartment in the States.