Makes more sense to embrace Mexico President...

Makes more sense to embrace Mexico

President Bush stated that there are just some jobs that United

States citizens do not want to perform. It is speculated that 25% of

Mexico’s work force is laboring in the United States. It is also said

that the major part of the Mexican gross national product and economy

is the U.S. dollars sent home by illegals. Perhaps Mexico would make

a better 51st state than a troublesome alien nation. However, I doubt

that Mexican President Vicente Fox would care for the idea.

THOMAS E. KOLANOSKI

Costa Mesa

Let the disabled keep their earned income

Perhaps the greatest benefit for our disabled people living on

Social Security disability assistance would be the opportunity to

earn a part-time income without having it taken away from them.

People with chronic illness who receive disability live below the

poverty level and have no hope of being able to pay for all the

necessities, such as food, housing and insurance.

Many of the chronically disabled that could conceivably hold a

part-time job, are marked for poverty because any income they

receive, or earn, is taken away from them. This means that any extra

money received, for any reason, is counted as income and then

deducted from the amount of their disability check.

Democrats from San Francisco and Los Angeles have said that

cutting programs from the “poorest of the poor” should not happen.

That is a valid and important point.

The part-time jobs already exist for a disabled person that might

be able to work it. However, when the money is deducted from their

disability check, then it becomes enforced poverty on the poorest of

our poor.

SARAH MOSS

Costa Mesa