Attention Deadbeats!

The State of California is being overrun with illegal aliens, and we're hemorrhaging money to provide for their health and welfare. The police are too busy to arrest the scofflaw employers who hire them, and the flow keeps coming. Let's look at why the police can't keep up.

First, they're busy chasing down repeat drunk drivers who should be in jail. Then, in the new year, they're faced or will be faced with a plethora of time-consuming nuisance laws. The dreaded prohibited cell phone use by drivers has begun in limited enforcement. Children have to be weighed or have their weight estimated to determine whether they need to be in car seats. Someone wanted to outlaw spanking, but, thankfully, that proposed law itself got spanked. Also avoided for the moment are laws telling us what kind of light bulbs to buy, and prohibiting the use of fireplaces. Do we really have to take up law enforcement's time to teach us how to lead a reasonable life? And why aren't the legislators addressing the issue of illegal immigration?

The latest proposed law could be another nightmare for law enforcement. Two misguided legislators want to give each newborn child in California a savings account of $500. This is wrong on two levels. First, it's a fraud waiting to happen. Surely, some deadbeats who have been having babies for years for the government money will have little trouble getting their hands on this $500. And, this is crucial, the money will go "to every baby born in California, regardless of the parents' financial or immigration status." So, that means that at least half will go to those don't need it and those who don't deserve it.

Finally, as Barbara Coe, chairwoman of the California Coalition for Immmigration Reform said, "It would send an even louder message to illegal aliens around the world to come to California."