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Hard-working, honorable, industrious people.

Again that is just a handful. How do you propose the citizens of El Paso pay for this? ---there's only about 600,000 ---one third already live on some kind of welfare program so you can consider about 400,000 mostly low-paid people have to pay for a county hospital that just lost over $30,000,000. In San Diego the county hospital loses $80,000,000. How can the citizens of that county pay the complete costs?

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Of course many of those 400,000 non welfare people in El Paso are children or retirees ---and they can't be included in the group who has to pay. Also most people working in El Paso don't work for private industry, the largest employers are the schools and hosptitals so they themselves must receive government-collected money of some kind.