[fabsroman]

Skinny, I understand your point. If I ever saw a human being threatened by any animal, and I had a gun in my hands, I wouldn't hesitate to shoot the animal.

What is tough is mankinds moving into the home of these animals and endangering their very existence.

As far as the illegal aliens are concerned, there has to be some type of compromise. I live near Washington, DC and a lot of my small business clients employ these type of people. What should be done is amnesty for those currently here. Have them start paying taxes and make them obey our laws. Then, close the borders and only let in a select few after they go through some serious screening. A good number of these guys are criminals. Don't know if it is because they are poor or because that is the way their culture is, but they need to learn that it isn't that way here. I have represented a couple of them in criminal matters, and it seems that leaving the country is always an option for them. Makes me wonder why they left their home country to begin with.

Deporting all of them would cause a disaster to our current economy. Some Americans are not working just because they cannot find the "right" job. A tech that works with my wife has a husband that hasn't worked in months, maybe years, because he does not want to work in retail anymore because it is beneath him. Yet, they had to sell their house because they could not afford the mortgage. Now, they need to move out of the townhouse they are renting because they cannot afford the $1,850 a month mortgage. Better yet, the husband is saying that there is no way he will rent an apartment at $1,000, and he is insisting on renting another townhouse at $1,750. Can he really be this stupid. By the way, the down payment for their initial house was given to them by a parent and all the equity that they got from the sale of the house has been spent on renting the new townhouse. Yet, this guy doesn't want to go to work. I wonder how many Americans are like this. Would Americans really be willing to pick crops and do construction? I think most of us want a cushy job behind a desk.

Me, when I get slow with the legal and accounting work, I work with my dad doing home remodeling. Haven't had to do that in quite a while, but I wouldn't hesitate to do it if I had to.

If we do not have cheap labor, all of us will be screaming at the cost of food and housing. Then again, if there were no illegals available to pay a cheap wage to, then the playing field would be level. My clients tell me that they have to use illegals because everybody else does and they cannot be competitive if they do not. INS and the IRS need to really start enforcing the laws, but that would mean additional funding is needed, and where does the additional funding come from, taxes. Of course, the IRS has a $340 billion dollar tax gap just from last year. If they could collect 50% of that, I am sure it would pay for all the additional auditors. Personally, I think everybody should be audited at least once every 5 years, and that audit should be for 3 years of tax returns. Corporations and companies should be audited even more often.