Nightmare Act

I voted for Governor Jerry Brown in California's last gubernatorial election. In fact, recently, I have voted for more democratic candidates than republican, including President Obama, because I believe they have shown a desire to do what is best for all Americans more than their opposition. However, this could change if I see more actions like Brown signing off on the Dream Act which now makes a college education available to illegal citizens.

I understand the anger and frustration of the Tea Party who have grown tired of seeing tax payer money being spent on citizens disinterested in improving their lives (lifetime welfare recipients) or who do not live here legally. Our country has enough struggling citizens of its own to deal with that it does not need to require tax payers to flip the bill for the education of an illegal immigrant.

I have three children in college and I do not expect their tuition to be paid for by the citizens of Mexico, Honduras, Nigeria or any other nation. I resent seeing the tuition expenses I pay increase by as much as 20 percent a year while the services my kids receive decrease. There is no argument anyone can make that says we should provide for non citizens before we provide for our own. None! And it is especially irksome to people like my wife and I who hold steady jobs, pay our taxes, and began setting aside money for our children's college before we began having kids.

However, I do not see myself jumping on the Tea Party band wagon. While I understand their anger and frustration, all too often it is aimed at the wrong people. I do not understand the level of hatred they blindly express and their desire to see more of a police state in which law enforcement can blindly ask to check our identification if they suspect we look illegal (think of Nazi Germany and the targeting of Jews).

As long as there are an over abundance of lazy Americans who prefer collecting a welfare check over an honest day's pay and who impart that philosophy in their children's minds then we will have a need to hire illegals who are willing to do the work that our own citizens will not do. Still, that does not mean these illegals, or their children, are entitled to attend our colleges, especially at the expense of honest tax payers who struggle to send their own children to school.