Are Mexicans Really Sucking Dry American Health-Care?
If you’ve been following my series of columns on the Mexican immigrant issue you know that I have been taking the position that most, if not all, of the vitriolic, hysteria-induced, bordering on the racist, rhetoric about Mexican immigrants sucking dry America’s health care system is not based on critical thinking skills. But, rather, it is based on general lack of critical thinking of maybe even the majority of the American Public. This is but one of the anti-Mexican Xenophobe’s issues-health care-about which they rant and about which I write. My whole point in my columns has been that unless one at least attempts to apply the rules of critical thinking, or as I aptly named them in my columns, “Phony-Baloney Detection”, that one is doomed to quoting speculative facts and stats that could even border on the deceptive. It is, as I have been writing in past columns, the test of experimentation that cuts through the “cock and bull” of the emotive blustering that always seems to have a wag
