Spain scraps health benefits for illegal immigrants
- Thread starter Banjo
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You mean this hasn't been done already? In a country with 24.5% unemployment?
This is a story of how taxpayers are canon fodder for politicians who use taxpayers' money to buy their own votes.
Even when the money is just used to support people knowingly, and illegally, entering a country to take advantage of the existing citizenry.
No, Spain voted their Conservative government out of office, because they were caught lying to Spanish citizens right before the elections.
It's difficult to say it didn't have an effect.
http://news-spain.euroresidentes.com/2007/03/al-qaeda-threatens-spain.html
That is undoubtedly true, although judging by the demonstrations and the polls going into the election, the attempted deception was the real deal-killer.