The letter to the editor in the T-R by Darrell Meyer "Put you money where your mouth Is" caught my eye. He certainly has a point. It is very easy to be generous with other people's money. Apparently the businesses and individuals listed in the advertisement on 9-25-11 in favor of the DREAM Act feel that illegal alien students should be able to attend college with help from the taxpayer citizens of Iowa.
Each of the individuals, families, or businesses listed could donate their own money to support an illegal alien in college. What would be ideal is if they could donate the entire amount needed to send one deserving, successful, student of "good moral character" to college for all the years needed to obtain a degree. Those people could choose to spend their money that way and leave the taxpayers alone. Any of the individuals who were feeling extra generous could certainly fund more than one student. Each of the persons who were listed could pay from their own money or fundraise to sponsor "their" student. That would leave the taxpayers of Iowa to choose their own charities to support.
There are many humanitarian causes that a person can choose to support. In the past our family chose to adopt and foster children. Others are into pets or wildlife. They don't ask me to fund their causes and I don't ask them to fund my causes. I hope to read an article in the T-R in the near future listing all these names again and the students they are sponsoring. That would help such "deserving" students while keeping those in favor of the DREAM Act out of my billfold and the billfolds of all Iowa taxpayers.
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