I was reading where the city of Portland has opened a government-sponsored center for day laborers. They have used tax payer money for this. City leaders will spend $200,000 on the center over the next two years. Their reason is this will get them off the street corners and give them a safe place to go. I have a big problem with this as most of them are illegal immigrants. We are using tax payer money for this. How can any city or government do such a thing? In a way they are using tax payer money to support an illegal activity.
It makes you wonder what the City of Portland will do next. I know lets take the drug dealers off the streets. We can open a city funded drug house that way drugs are not being sold on our streets, or better yet how about a whore house. There is a big problem with prostitutes. Let’s put them all up in a house and that way we can get it off the streets. Now I know these are stupid but if you look at it from the legal point they are just as valid as the center for day laborers. Either way we are using tax payer money for an illegal act. I as a tax payer am appalled at this.
The city’s, county’s and state’s are all screaming they need more money and talking about raising taxes and yet they wastes tax money on something illegal. How can they justify such a thing? Now I have nothing against people from other countries, after all that is how this great country came to be. I do expect that the law be upheld and that all people are treated the same which means following the laws. If you are not in this country legally then you should not be given special treatment. You should have to follow the rules and become a citizen like all those people before you.
If government keeps spending taxes (especially on illegal) things then I as a tax payer have the right and duty to vote down taxes and vote against any elected official that feels they are above the law and can support illegal activities. It is almost like having organized crime run by our cities.
Portland needs to close the center and use that money for other legal things such as schools, homeless people, road, police (to arrest illegal immigrants) and fire fighters. Until they get their priorities right and start looking out for their tax payers I will not support them.
