This is why operation frugal is so important right now. Stop spending. Stop buying. Stop working overtime. Everything you buy or earn has a tax. That tax money feeds the beast. Now is not the time to send Washington, or any other big government official, another healthy meal.
Starve the beast. Let the crises work for us this time. Let us be the ones people cry out to, so WE can do something about it.
Last year (2011) the IRS gave 42.2 BILLION dollars in refund checks to illegal immigrants.
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2011reports/201141061fr.pdf
So many just live paycheck to paycheck.