Just a thought...the state with the smallest population has the most
effective MediCare coverage in the USA...North Dakota and that state also
employs many migrant workers during harvest season so idea about 'illegal'
workers does not apply just to FL 'orange pickers'.  At least in the Upper
Midwest local folks tend to kick in and help the people helping them with
the hard work of producing food for the rest of us have a bit of decent
housing, clothes on their backs, education for their children and letting
them them know that their hard work is appreciated!

>From a message by mirkath about Re: OT Military:
> At 05:20 PM 1/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>How do they cost?
>They are in the US to make an honest buck
>They get 0 medical, 0 goverment benefits (yea lets talk


Your ignorance of reality is showing.... ask people from California about 
the 0 medical and 0 government benefits. Also when was the last time you 
were in a hospital? Have you seen the little notice about not refusing 
emergency medical service even if a person can not pay for it? Or if you 
are in Louisiana, the services provided by the Mercy hospital system which 
is heavily subsidized by the state. Any way you cut it, those services 
drive up costs for those of us that do pay, either for medical services out 
of pocket, or insurances premiums, or for taxpayers in general.

I am making no stand as to whether it is good or bad that they are here, 
just that your broad brush generalization is in error.



Mark



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