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Here's a blog entry I recently wrote. I would greatly appreciate some (respectful) critiques and comments, and some techniques to increase it's validity. Thanks!
I recently procured a very interesting tidbit from my friend who receives complete financial aid for college from the government.
Her parents who have lived together for her entire life, never got married. Her father works as a contractor, and was able to afford a respectable sized house. Her mother works as an elementary school secretary, and makes $13,000 a year; she saw her mother's tax statements.
What about her father? No one knows exactly how much he makes, because he hasn't paid his taxes in over 20 years.
When filling out FAFSA forms, if your parents aren't married, you only put one of their incomes down.
Obviously she had no choice but to put her mother's down.
She now receives the aid that is intended for someone who lives in poverty. She has benefited from her father's untaxed income her entire life.
Is that not completely fucked?
As a native of Las Vegas, Nevada, I'm familiar with the illegal immigration issues the southwestern portion of the country faces. Some of the issues include: people driving with no licenses or identities and getting into car crashes, resulting in the highest car insurance rates in the nation, children of illegals joining gangs and hiking homicide crime rates, illegal immigrants killing police officers and getting away with it, being manditorily taught Spanish from first grade to fifth grade (which obviously isn't bad in itself, but the reasons behind it are), and the effect monolingually Spanish children have had on our public school system.
I don't hate illegal immigrants themselves, after all how are their aspirations for a better life any different than ours. It also goes without saying that not all illegal immigrants contribute to the problems listed above.
On that very basic level, I do not harbor ill will toward them as people.
I just really fucking hate what they're doing.
I hate the people who allow them the privilege of doing it. I hate the employers who accept fake social security numbers and don't bother to tax said employee's income. I hate the resulting cost of health care and social services the immigrants do in fact employ. I hate the idea of having to pay for selfish corporate head douchecocks and their desperate need for cheap labor. I hate the corruption in Mexico's government and their encouraging to push all of their problems onto our shoulders.
No, my anger is not misplaced on the people themselves, but the entire situation at hand.
Their native country is so fucking flawed and stratified that they feel they have no choice but to hop over an invisible border and use us to achieve middle class standing. They obviously don't want their children to face the same predicament. What better thing to do than to shit the kid on American soil and force its citizenship onto us?
Their reasoning for what they do is understood.
My friend's dad is WORSE THAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
He was born in this country, uses its services, supplies his family with his monetary earnings, and doesn't pay a cent to support the country that allows him to do this. Like the rest of us do. As the law says we do.
It's not my friend's fault that her father chose to fuck over the government, the same way it's not anyone's fault to be born unto illegal immigrants.
However, my friend finds it foolish that I am somewhat bothered by what she's doing.
How can I not be?
My single mother has made more than her "technically single" mother, despite that fact that if your compare both of our living situations, the difference in privilege is evident. Her family lives in at least a four bedroom house whilst we dwell in a two bedroom apartment, for instance.
It's not her fault, therefore I should not be bothered. What?
How is her father and in turn she NOT abusing the system? She directly benefited from her father not paying taxes and is now considered below the poverty line when it comes to her college finances.
How is that not completely fucked?
What about people who have to actually work their way through school because their parents make what's said to be enough to afford tuition, yet the cost of living greatly argues otherwise? What of these people who never enjoyed the privilege money bestows, yet can't as easily access aid?
How is this not completely fucked up?
I have to ask that over and over.
"The government is completely fucked up." Was her response.
True, undoubtedly the government has severe flaws in this country. That is almost universally accepted.
What I find more fucked up is her father's complete pillage of our country's opportunities and her subsequent benefit of it. She is now siphoning off money from people who need it.
I don't hate her, I'm not angry at her as a person.
I just really fucking hate what she is doing.
Ironically her family has always been vocal about their disdain for illegal immigration and the cheap labor they provide the construction industry. It's why they relocated to Washington from California.
Her father as far as I am concerned is comparable and worse than illegal immigrants.
I recently procured a very interesting tidbit from my friend who receives complete financial aid for college from the government.
Her parents who have lived together for her entire life, never got married. Her father works as a contractor, and was able to afford a respectable sized house. Her mother works as an elementary school secretary, and makes $13,000 a year; she saw her mother's tax statements.
What about her father? No one knows exactly how much he makes, because he hasn't paid his taxes in over 20 years.
When filling out FAFSA forms, if your parents aren't married, you only put one of their incomes down.
Obviously she had no choice but to put her mother's down.
She now receives the aid that is intended for someone who lives in poverty. She has benefited from her father's untaxed income her entire life.
Is that not completely fucked?
As a native of Las Vegas, Nevada, I'm familiar with the illegal immigration issues the southwestern portion of the country faces. Some of the issues include: people driving with no licenses or identities and getting into car crashes, resulting in the highest car insurance rates in the nation, children of illegals joining gangs and hiking homicide crime rates, illegal immigrants killing police officers and getting away with it, being manditorily taught Spanish from first grade to fifth grade (which obviously isn't bad in itself, but the reasons behind it are), and the effect monolingually Spanish children have had on our public school system.
I don't hate illegal immigrants themselves, after all how are their aspirations for a better life any different than ours. It also goes without saying that not all illegal immigrants contribute to the problems listed above.
On that very basic level, I do not harbor ill will toward them as people.
I just really fucking hate what they're doing.
I hate the people who allow them the privilege of doing it. I hate the employers who accept fake social security numbers and don't bother to tax said employee's income. I hate the resulting cost of health care and social services the immigrants do in fact employ. I hate the idea of having to pay for selfish corporate head douchecocks and their desperate need for cheap labor. I hate the corruption in Mexico's government and their encouraging to push all of their problems onto our shoulders.
No, my anger is not misplaced on the people themselves, but the entire situation at hand.
Their native country is so fucking flawed and stratified that they feel they have no choice but to hop over an invisible border and use us to achieve middle class standing. They obviously don't want their children to face the same predicament. What better thing to do than to shit the kid on American soil and force its citizenship onto us?
Their reasoning for what they do is understood.
My friend's dad is WORSE THAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
He was born in this country, uses its services, supplies his family with his monetary earnings, and doesn't pay a cent to support the country that allows him to do this. Like the rest of us do. As the law says we do.
It's not my friend's fault that her father chose to fuck over the government, the same way it's not anyone's fault to be born unto illegal immigrants.
However, my friend finds it foolish that I am somewhat bothered by what she's doing.
How can I not be?
My single mother has made more than her "technically single" mother, despite that fact that if your compare both of our living situations, the difference in privilege is evident. Her family lives in at least a four bedroom house whilst we dwell in a two bedroom apartment, for instance.
It's not her fault, therefore I should not be bothered. What?
How is her father and in turn she NOT abusing the system? She directly benefited from her father not paying taxes and is now considered below the poverty line when it comes to her college finances.
How is that not completely fucked?
What about people who have to actually work their way through school because their parents make what's said to be enough to afford tuition, yet the cost of living greatly argues otherwise? What of these people who never enjoyed the privilege money bestows, yet can't as easily access aid?
How is this not completely fucked up?
I have to ask that over and over.
"The government is completely fucked up." Was her response.
True, undoubtedly the government has severe flaws in this country. That is almost universally accepted.
What I find more fucked up is her father's complete pillage of our country's opportunities and her subsequent benefit of it. She is now siphoning off money from people who need it.
I don't hate her, I'm not angry at her as a person.
I just really fucking hate what she is doing.
Ironically her family has always been vocal about their disdain for illegal immigration and the cheap labor they provide the construction industry. It's why they relocated to Washington from California.
Her father as far as I am concerned is comparable and worse than illegal immigrants.
