Posted by
Rude One
Let's get one thing straight here right off: If you are a legal
immigrant in nearly every other country in the world, you are allowed to
participate in that country's national health system. You're paying for
the benefit through your taxes and other fees, and, goddamnit, just
like everyone else legally in the country, you don't have to worry about
paying much of anything else for your medical care. Nothing will be
held against you. Nothing will turn you into a "public charge" or
whatever fuckin' term for "undesirable" you want to use. And that's
because most every other country in the world is not filled with
ignorant savages who think that calling health care a "right" is akin to
mass enslavement by socialists.
We in the United States happen to live in a country that is, in fact,
filled with brutish idiots who would rather die in a ditch of a
treatable disease than have a government-run health insurance system for
everyone. So that means that only the poorest of the poor get to be on
Medicaid, and then you're considered on welfare and a burden to the
state. And that means that, unlike every other civilized nation, if
you're a legal immigrant, the American government wants to hold it
against you if you have a shitty job that doesn't provide health
insurance (like, say, in a chicken processing plant) and need help so
the flu doesn't financially ruin you.
We are a nation run by sadists who get off on hurting the poor. So, in the new
rule, "Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds," published
yesterday
in the Federal Register, taking advantage of a whole bunch of
government programs meant to, you know, help you survive could result in
you getting booted from the country.
See, previously, "'public charge' has been interpreted to mean a person
who is 'primarily dependent on the Government for subsistence, as
demonstrated by either the receipt of public cash assistance for income
maintenance or institutionalization for long-term care at Government
expense.'" Yeah, we didn't take into consideration "an alien's reliance
on or receipt of non-cash benefits such as the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps; Medicaid; and housing
vouchers and other housing subsidies."
But that was before motherfuckers took over and decided to redefine shit
that didn't need redefining unless you are a motherfucker. Here's the
new shit: "DHS is revising its interpretation of 'public charge' to
incorporate consideration of such benefits, and to better ensure that
aliens subject to the public charge inadmissibility ground are
self-sufficient, i.e., do not depend on public resources to meet their
needs, but rather rely on their own capabilities, as well as the
resources of family members, sponsors, and private organizations." Wow,
sounds almost logical, no? Except it's just fucking cruel for so many
reasons. Keep reading.
"This rule redefines the term 'public charge' to mean an alien who
receives one or more designated public benefits for more than 12 months
in the aggregate within any 36-month period (such that, for instance,
receipt of two benefits in one month counts as two months). This rule
defines the term 'public benefit' to include cash benefits for income
maintenance, SNAP, most forms of Medicaid, Section 8 Housing Assistance
under the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program, Section 8 Project-Based
Rental Assistance, and certain other forms of subsidized housing."
The fuckery is deep in this, but let's put this simply. Let's say you're
an immigrant who has been in the country for a few years totally
legally. All of a sudden., you lose your job when the restaurant where
you're waiting tables or, hell, the office where you're working closes.
For four months, you need to go on Medicaid, you need SNAP, and you need
housing assistance. That's it. You can be denied a green card for
circumstances completely beyond your control unless you starve, go
homeless, and let yourself be sick.
This has been one of the pet projects of presidential adviser and man
most likely piss in your swimming pool, Stephen Miller, whose head is
essentially shaped like a white hood. It's racism that is so plain, it's
almost laughable. Yes, let's punish those who want to come to the
United States and work our shittiest jobs so rich pukes can get richer.
Yes, let's make them pay sales taxes and other shit that prop up our
economy. And by all fucking means, let's take the income taxes of people
who may have paid them for years before needing some government
assistance.
In the UK, if you are a legal immigrant, once you receive your National
Insurance number, you have access to many (not all) financial benefits,
starting with the National Health Service. You can apply for Employment
and Support Allowance, in case you are too ill or disabled to work. You
can apply for a Carer's Allowance if you are forced to stay home because
you must care for someone. You can get housing credits, maternity leave
pay, and retirement income. And it's specifically because you've been
paying into the national insurance while living in the UK that you are
eligible. In the United States, it doesn't matter how much you've paid.
Go fuck yourself in your old country if you need Medicaid for over a
year.
Of course, the demented dullards of the Trump administration are all on
board. Acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
that verminous cockscab Ken Cuccinelli,
couldn't
even fake it when he completely undercut the Emma Lazarus poem on the
Statue of Liberty, ignoring the "huddled masses" and "wretched refuse"
part. And then he insisted that the poem was about Europeans, which,
really, just sodomize your ass with a burning cross at that point.
As for
resident Ignoramus Q. Shiteater, when
asked
about the rule and Cuccinelli yesterday, he said, " I don’t think it’s
fair to have the American taxpayer paying for people to come into the
United States...I am tired of seeing our taxpayer paying for people to
come into the country and immediately go onto welfare and various other
things. So I think we’re doing it right." We should point out that not
only are the taxpayers of the country paying for the months and months
of vacation he has taken, but a good chunk of that taxpayer money is
going straight into his business coffers and his own pockets.
Frankly, it's pretty fucking clear who should be booted from the country for being a public charge.
