All Forum Posts by: Susan Maneck

 I'm not disparaging white people (I am white) I'm disparaging white nationalism. Do you not know what that is?  

Oh, I understand that problem, but did you ever have to go to an ER in Mississippi which has relatively few immigrants? I had to wait four hours before I could see anyone while suffering from appendicitis. Mississippi's  refusal to extend Medicaid led to the closure o 32 rural hospitals. We have entire counties without a single doctor or nurse. 

 But it was because of the problem of immigrants filling our ERs in California that they recently decided to extend MediCal low-income undocumented workers.  As you know California depends on migrant labor. 

Well, I'm glad you agree that those who can't repay their student loans should be allowed to declare bankruptcy. In that case, problem solved. Most of the people Biden has been trying to forgive are those who had been paying for decades but still owed more than they originally borrowed.

Obviously you consider it a shame these kids can't pay off their student loans but a businessman who doesn't is fine with you. That certainly shows your elitism! 

First offense border crossing is considered an infraction under federal law subject to a fine of between $50-$200. If that makes them criminal so are you when you ran that red light twenty years ago. Also, our federal law allows people to seek asylum whether or not they enter through a legal port of entry so long as they present themselves to the proper authorities within a year after they enter. That's why they wait so patiently for Border Patrol to pick them up once they cross the border. 

Note, I said they were not eligible for most *federal* aid. What these Southern Governors did in their Reverse Freedom Rides campaign was send them to cities that had *local* "right to shelter" ordinances. What would normally happen before this is they would stay a few days in a shelter run by a non-profit like Catholic Charities. After that they are often provided with a bus ticket to wherever they have family in the US (most do.) If they are asylum seekers they will likely find casual work until they can get a temporary work permit. Yes, they can get emergency care regardless of ability to pay at an ER just like everyone else. You can blame that socialist Ronald Reagan for that law. I don't know where you got the figure of it costing us a trillion dollars, but indigent care in the last twenty years hasn't cost that much and that includes immigrants and citizens! I'm guessing your "evidence" comes from either FAIR or CIS, both organizations founded by a eugenist. I do avoid anything published by white nationalists. 

 The World Economic Forum is made up of a bunch of Capitalists!

 There has actually only one time in our history where the federal government has not been in debt and that was during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It brought on a huge recession. But I'll grant you things are now out of control. I believe in Keynesian Economics, the problem is we always do the easy part and never the hard part. The easy part is to spend out way our of a recession or other emergency. The hard part, though, is to raise taxes when the economy is overheated. It takes longer but has the same effect as raising interest rates. And unlike raising interest rates the government gets something out of it, and hopefully doesn't have to do as much deficit spending the next time an emergency comes along. The problem, of course, is that raising taxes is never the way to win an election. 

 We already have down payment programs in Mississippi that require you to go through a training program. It is only for 10K, not Harris' 25K but since you can still buy homes for 70-100K that should be sufficient. But the way it can work with Section 8 is that the same portion that would go towards your rent now goes towards your mortgage. As your situation improves they would be paying less of your mortgage. This program already exists, but it is too little used, maybe because Section 8 vouchers are so difficult to get in the first place. We need to revive Home Economics courses in our high schools that teach *economics* instead of cooking and sewing. And it should be taken by girls and boys. One thing I learned after all these years of renting properties is just how little my tenants understood how money works. I can't tell you the number of times I've had to persuade them not to rent furniture or go to these payday loan places. 

Every other borrower has the right to declare bankruptcy when they find they can't repay a debt but the ones who signed a paper back when they were 19 years old. How does that make sense? May I remind you that Trump declared bankruptcy 6 times, yet he gets praised as an astute businessman but this kid is a moron? The crime rate of immigrants is far lower than that of citizens of the same socio-economic class. Illegal immigrants are not eligible for most any form of federal aid. They can't get food stamps, Section 8 housing vouchers, welfare, or Medicaid. They pump 13 billion a year into Social Security but will never be able to collect it. They pay 30 billion a year in other taxes. 

 The world's largest suppliers of gypsum are Oman, Spain, and Thailand. 

Nonsense. The current cost of housing has nothing to do with the economic policies of the Biden Administration. And you know as well as I that the VP has only as much power as the President chooses to give her. The cost of housing rose largely as a result of the pandemic. People stuck at home suddenly decided they needed a bigger one. Furthermore, they moved out from urban areas to more rural ones since they could work remotely, pumping up the cost of housing in those areas. This happened at time when we were not in a position to increase the housing supply.