Would Congress PLEASE Read This Post?

I have today written two letters to the President and some other members of the Administration including my Senators and Representative. Below are the two letters.

LETTER ONE: S-CHIP
As I have tried to inform you, from my experience working with S-CHIP in the State of Georgia, Congress has not spoken to people who have actually worked with the "working poor." I have and I give my advice freely.

Many of the parents of S-CHIP children do not expect the coverage to duplicate Medicaid. They expected the program to be much like one of the Employer Health Care Coverage Plans that most State Employees have. They expected to pay a monthly fee for their children, based on their income, and then a co-pay at the doctor's office, the pharmacy and the hospital. They are not looking for any kind of "national" or "universal" health care.

Parents who can afford health insurance through their employers usually do not have dental coverage for their children and would like to see S-CHIP offer Dental Coverage for children separate from the Health Care Coverage. They're willing to make a monthly payment for this coverage and pay a co-pay.

S-CHIP does not need to extend coverage for those "reportedly" uninsured children not currently covered. The majority of those children have parents who can obtain Family Health Care Coverage from their employers but who are waiting on the "dole" from the Federal Government because they refuse to budget or reduce their spending habits in order to pay for the Employer offered Health Insurance.

The Bottom Line with this entire situation is that the U.S. Citizen does not know how to live within his net income and expects the Federal Government to be his "Santa Claus" or "Sugar Daddy" and come to his rescue. The Federal Government has my permission not to continue to be an enabler of poor financial planning by families who have access to health insurance coverage through their employers.

Thank you for reading my email.

LETTER TWO: AMNESTY – specifically the Dream Act
As I have tried to inform you, from my experience working with documented (legal green card) immigrants and undocumented immigrants (illegal aliens) and the Medicaid Programs for Children and Pregnant Women in the State of Georgia, Congress has not spoken to people who have actually worked with these families. I have and I give my advice freely.

Nearly 100% of documented immigrants do not support the USofA giving Amnesty to any illegal aliens. Documented immigrants went through the long procedure to obtain green cards for themselves and their spouses and children. They worked for their green card status and they look down on those who enter the USofA without benefit of a green card.

They also believe that in many cases, employers who hire both legal and illegal aliens pay lower wages to the legal aliens because they know the illegal alien has no recourse if he is paid below minimum wages. If the Legal Alien complains, he is summarily dismissed and an illegal alien willing to accept lowered wages is hired. Legal immigrants believe they would be paid better if there were no Illegal Immigrants willing to work for low wages.

Employers are hiring illegal aliens. I live in an area where illegal aliens work in construction, chicken houses, landscaping and greenhouses. And they're paid cash which means the employer doesn't have to account for them, pay any taxes for them, cover them with Worker's Comp, offer Health Care Coverage, retirement benefits, etc.

So my questions are: Why do you want to reward Illegal Aliens and give them benefits that Legal Immigrants often are ineligible for? Why reward what you call "innocent children" just because their parents were too lazy or self-centered to follow the appropriate procedures to gain entry into the USofA?

Charity begins at home. And the USofA is not the home of illegal aliens.

So, now it's your turn to write to your Congresspeople.