A teacher speaks

 

> This is a subject close to my heart. Do you know that we have adult

> students, at the school where I teach, who are not US citizens and who

> get the PELL grant, which is a federal grant (no pay back required)

> plus other federal grants to go to school?

> 

> One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn't want

> me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she

> was getting housing from our housing department and she was getting a

> PELL grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money leftover.

> 

> She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas

> to come  to school, and into CARIBE which is a special program (check

> it out - I did) for immigrants and it pays for child care and all

> sorts of needs while they go to school or training. The one student I

> just mentioned told me she was not going to be a US Citizen because

> she plans to return to the  Dominican Republic someday and that she

> 'loves HER country.'

> 

> I asked her if she felt guilty taking what the US  is giving her and

> then not even bothering to become a citizen and she told me that it

> doesn't bother her, because that is what the money is there for!

> 

>  I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE

> a US Citizen, you don't qualify for their program. And all the while,

> I am working a full day, my son-in-law works more than 60 hours a

> week, and everyone in my family works and pays for our education.

> 

>  Something is wrong here.   I am sorry but after hearing they want to sing

> the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough. Nowhere did they

> sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language

> because of immigration.   It was written by Francis Scott Key and should

> be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even

> gave the translation -- not even close.

> 

> Sorry if this offends anyone but this is MY COUNTRY. IF IT IS YOUR

> COUNTRY SPEAK UP -- please pass this along.

> 

> I am not against immigration -- just come through like everyone else.

> 

> Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your

> taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other

> immigrants have in the past and GOD BLESS AMERICA!

> It is Time for America to speak up.

corvette440hp2008-10-09 06:21:43

Nice! We should look into that as a nation....But wait Obama is on the cusp of becomeing the president so I am affraid that it would be just the opposite. More entitlement programs higher taxes. hay if you dont do what he tells you he will empose another form of tax called a fine! Just think of all the entitlement programs we can have enacted once he becomes president!