The Jackpot Now Stands At: $2.5 Trillion

For those who are keeping track of such things, the cost of this "amnesty" bill that is being ramrodded through Congress is roughly $2.5 trillion. That cost is easy to figure out when you take into account the fact that from 12 to 20 million people will be flooding America's welfare, Social Security, medicare and medicaid systems. Roughly half of the illegal criminal aliens who will magically become US citizes do not have a high school degree. That means those people can't speak English, and English is a prime requisite to find work in this country; at least work that will lead to greater opportunities. Those people will not be able to find work--first in line for welfare. Aliens who are already nearing the age of retirement will be at the front of the line for SSI benefits.

All of this is bad enough, but the bill is being pushed through against the will of the people. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has recently equated amnesty with anything short of capital punishment when pertaining to the illegal alien issue. Senators Graham and Chambliss were roundly booes at the Republican convention when trying to cover their own position; not coming out and saying that those same senators are in the hip pocket of big businesses who think that they need cheap labor. Of course, even if they were to say exactly that it wouldn't matter anyway.

Any Congressman or Senator that votes in favor of this bill that trivializes the immigration process, and slaps the face of the good people who are trying to do things the right way--those are the people who are selling out the future of this country for political expediency, and they must be stopped.