INSTATE TUITION FOR ILLEGALS WILL ADD TO BUDGET WOES

 

According to the Federation For American Immigration Reform  Colorado spends $1.1 billion per year on illegal immigrants. Of that, $925 million goes toward educating illegal immigrants, $82 million toward health care and $38 million toward incarceration.

Given the numbers anyone can see how the welfare type spending on illegal immigration is breaking the budget. So how do the Democrats propose to fix this problem? If you said give more of our tax money to illegal immigrants, you would be right. The Democrat Legislature plans to reintroduce a bill granting instate tuition to illegal immigrants.

Instead of approaching the budget issue with common sense, Colorado Democrats continue to prove they would rather spend our money than make tough decisions. Speaking of tough decisions, if this bill passes through the Democrat controlled Legislature does anyone think that Governor Ritter will veto it? Given Ritter's spending record, my guess would be... no.

Letter to the Denver Post

I was pleased to see the Denver Post published a letter I sent opposing Governor Ritter's push for an Olympic bid in Colorado. For the Post to save some space understandably they had to edit out some of the contents.

Below is the original letter I sent in to the Post Bidding for the Olympics:

The Governor has talked about pushing for a bid to host the Winter Olympics in Colorado, but he has failed to give attention to the more important issues Coloradans face.

Ritter claims that he is looking at making the cuts to balance the $240 million downfall, but instead of prioritizing the budget he has opted to push for political glory in a far reach for an Olympic hosting.

Pushing for the Olympics is too far into the future when Colorado is starving in the present. This move is more proof that Ritter is not the leader this state needs. Colorado deserves stronger leadership than this.