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ok, you didn't get it....
1.) You said "...it's your bed, sleep in it." , implying that I somehow chose this "bed" to sleep in, which you have yet to describe to me. What "bed" is that?
2.) What self pity? I simply described what it takes to get a college education. Why would I need someone to pity me for that?
3.) What, exactly, is my interpretation? I assume that BS is another way of saying "lies". Do we not fund hospital care/births, for illegals, that are uninsured/unpaid for with tax dollars? Do your parents not pay taxes that are subsequently used to pay for your K-12 schooling, and also those whose parents didn't (because they aren't citizens)? Do we not provide welfare money to support the children of illegal immigrants? Do we not provide additional federal funding to the children of illegal immigrants to attend college with no other qualifications than the status of their birth parents?
4.)I don't want to benefit from some program that is given to an exclusive set of people. I want the $200,000 of tax money that I have paid in over my lifetime to benefit all Americans equally, not just some. If a group of successful children of illegals wants to put together a 501(c)3 like UNCF, HSF, or APIASF, that's fine. Don't make me work to pay for them with my taxes, let the charity do it!
5.)What personal shortcomings do you perceive that I have, and who am I using as a scapegoat to blame it on?

For the record, in 2011:
- illegal immigration cost the US $183 Billion in federally funded programs for health care, education, state owned lodging, and welfare to those under the age of 18.
- the bottom 50% of tax payers(by population, not income) paid in only $20 billion after credits and returns
-total income tax revenue after credits and returns was $1.3 trillion, with only $846 billion of that coming from the 50th-99th percentile.
-70% of the population makes less than $50k per year
- That means that 22% of the revenue made by ALL people making over 50K (and 20% of those making less) goes to fund the results of illegal immigration.
-average wage per household is $42K per year

First, you still have yet to identify these shortcomings that I posses or these distasteful circumstances that I am in. Also, you insist on belittling me, rather than intelligent argument. I have yet to demean you in this conversation, but you seem affronted and vengeful. To quote you, you have said the following belittling things:

-"your pitiful little life"
- "You are a whining little man"
-"...all the other BS you spew"
-"you see those that are not like you as the cause of your personal failings and unfulfilled life."
-"...you have an unfulfilled life..."
-"...need to scapegoat others for your personal shortcomings."

You're right about illegals not being "eligible" for any services. But you forget that services like births, emergencies, etc.. are law binding renders for the hospitals and doctors, who are then re-imbursed by the feds when the person is uninsured or can't pay.

In Texas, each public school student is funded, by local,state, and federal taxes, with an average of $11k per year. These taxes are paid by citizens of each community, per capita locally, and at the state level. Do you not get what this means to a small town in regard to making city tax decisions? It also effects small town water and utility charges, since the combined pool of money is what is used to fund things like education, police force, road upkeep(within city limits), waste disposal, etc...

Yes, you are correct in saying that the children of illegals are having more success than I am. Here is how they are doing it: They are, by default, Hispanic in Texas, which means that they need not make the same grades to achieve acceptance. This also means that they qualify for segregated federal grants for Hispanics. This also means that they qualify for special, low interest, federal loans reserved for both Hispanics and low income households. And, now, Texas legislation is focusing their attentions on how to lower their costs for college. This is fine with me (the lowering of costs by allowing in-state tuition makes sense, they live here and are now paying taxes when they work).
From a narrow view, this does not bother me, because I don't care how they get their education. Many of them still have to work through college to be able to live a comfortable life suited to good study habits.
From a holistic view, it goes the opposite direction. I am always interested in where my tax money goes and why my city taxes and state property taxes just went up. Oh....look at that....we have to compensate state schools(K-12 and collegiate) for increased student numbers and we have to help fund emergency health care for minors. Well ok, but aren't there more parents, or are parents having more kids? No, the influx of illegals is creating a large population of unfunded/underfunded children. Well, why are my taxes being used to that end?

If the immigration issue were solved (via a massive line at the border that simply hands out citizenship if need be!), this would not be the time/money wasting issue that it is! Get people working and paying local taxes (there aren't any income taxes for our state) per capita, rather than having 40 people in one house, with one "coyote" paying city bills, making under the table wages that are unfair, and being unable to actually rent/buy on their own and pay city utilities and the like!
Everyone's in-state and out-of-state tuition would go down! (unless the faculty felt they needed more money throughout the collegiate field, but I doubt that, since they would eventually have to compete with other states to keep attendance up)

If I had my way, we'd work a deal to annex Mexico and be done with it! Countless university studies have proven the economical advantage of that idea!

First: I refuse to insult you, though you have made many assumptions about me that are both subjective and demeaning.
Second: You are ignorant. I mean this not as an insult, but in truth. You think that hospital costs are not re-imbursed when an uninsured person fails to pay their bills. That means that you really don't know.

-The idea has come up amongst several thinkers both here and in Mexico, that either a closer shared economic agreement or combination of the two countries would benefit us both, though the scale of work to be done to accomplish that is currently prohibitive. I am in favor of a closer economic relationship with Mexico in the meantime, by paying workers inside the borders of Mexico according to our own national payscale in exchange for a partial income tax on the employees or directly from employers who outsource to Mexico. They wouldn't benefit from lower wage workers, but they would still benefit from lower cost materials until the Mexican economy is strong enough to match those wages to produce the materials being bought.

- As for the affordable care act, it is a good framework for a good idea, but there is not enough in it to direct the market for health care in the proper direction. Currently it really only forces you to buy it, but doesn't regulate the outcome from unnatural market influence. I would like to support it more than just with lip service, but I can't. I don't feel that it is unconstitutional to mandate healthcare, but I do feel that it is unconstitutional to force a fine on persons who wish to forgo health care insurance, and subsequently it is unconstitutional to hold medical professionals accountable for those who might die as a result of not being able to afford health care.

- I feel that the Affordable Care Act is going to do the same thing to health care that vehicle insurance laws have done to car insurance prices. People will be filling the pockets of insurance magnates who need only provide a reserve of $1800 per 100 customers to cover average accident costs for their company.
Currently the statistics of having a vehicle accident is 1 out of every 100 people over the course of their lifetime. The national average cost of that accident is $1800. (This is the statistical basis that my company uses to compare health care costs to car insurance costs in order to justify to customers why health insurance plans at our company start at $110/month)