"Our out-of-control welfare state also helps account for..."

"Our out-of-control welfare state also helps account for the scope of our illegal immigration problem.  When you subsidize something, you get more of it, and by offering free medical care and other services, as well as the prospect of amnesty, we get more illegal immigration.  Meanwhile, hospitals have begun closing as our states and localities struggle to pay the bills.
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When, thanks to government policy, the economy is shaky, as it is now with the housing bubble bursting and inflation on the rise, it is all the easier to hold up immigrants as the scapegoats for the people's economic woes, thereby letting the incompetents and shysters who make our economic policy off the hook." -Pages 83 & 84 of The Revolution, A Manifesto