Undocumented Workers in America, Part 2 by Chelle Stockman

 There is a way to protect illegal immigrants from Mexico of becoming the scourge of the United States.  It's radical so bear with me.  Before I share this notion, allow me to deliver Americans one swift kick in our collective butts.  First you must ask yourselves why so many employers are willing to employ insourced workers from Mexico.  I'll tell you why.

Insurance!   Insurance companies are the driving force behind our economic and employment structures in America.  Employers must have every kind of insurance from Workmen's Comp. to Liability.  Every time a legitimate claim is filed, every consumer and employer loses  while insurance premiums go up percentage points for every insured American, regardless of their carrier.  Add fraudulent claims to the mix and you have created the need for cheap labor.  It wasn't the "illegal" immigrants that began this trend; it was the opportunistic American leeches looking to get something for nothing. 

Forty years later, with the accelearation of lawsuits and claims filed, we have insourcing of service jobs, outsourcing of industry, dwindling education and heath care, sky-rocketing prices of homes, cars the prices of a home just 35 years ago,  and annual energy bills the cost of a car just 25 years ago.

Still, the Mexicans come to America and believe they can make a better life for themselves.  I believe in my heart they can; and if they can, Americans can too. How can we make this happen together?

Do away with all the different avenues of taxation except a consumer tax.  From every raw material corporations buy to make their products to every product  purchased in any way or form, excluding services rendered, should be taxed.  Welfare recipients to corporations will be paying taxes that will triple our monetary resources available for necessary programs like street paving, bridge building, schools, hospitals, etc. 

To further hedge our standing, perhaps we should go to war with Mexico. Claim Mexico as a territory of the United States in order to rebuild their infrastructure and provide them with much needed resources such as sewer and potable water.

I do believe we can all make a better life for ourselves, but many many things must change at every level before we can, beginning with our method of taxation and the disempowerment of the Insurance Industry.  We need to prosecute bogus lawsuits and investigate people if they have ever sued in more than one case in order to determine their habits.  This makes much better sense to me.

I told you it was a radical notion, one I don't believe we are brave enough to do.  Should we not take this route, we will always be tempted to criminalize people who struggle for a better life, the very people willing to work for it.

Chelle Stockman