Obama smooches around illegal immigration.

President Obama delivered his first State of the Union address last night. There was one line on the illegal immigration issue:

"And we should continue the work of fixing our broken immigration system – to secure our borders, enforce our laws, and ensure that everyone who plays by the rules can contribute to our economy and enrich our nations."

Guess it's not that big of a deal. Guess the monies spent on illegal aliens on health care, education, welfare/food stamps, etc. isn't worth more than just one line in the President's State of the Union speech.

Jim Gilchrist, MBA, CPA, Founder and President of The Minuteman Project, stated in 2005, "The annual gross cost to U.S. taxpayers to provide schooling, hospitalization, and whatever plethoric benefits are out there for the 30 million illegal aliens is approximately $400 billion per year funded by bona fide U.S. taxpayers. That’s $400 billion per year and going up."

Some pro-immigration folk might contend this amount is inflated. He said. She said. Story of our lives. But no one can deny that illegal aliens - regardless of the amount of money - are taking advantage of the services of our country ILLEGALLY and our President offered nothing in the way of hope that he's seriously dealing with the situation. Only lip service.

NOTE: Found this article on The Huffington Post this morning after I had written my post. Someone agrees with me - even if it is the HP. FYI: I met Arianna Huffington once in Bel Air. What a bitch. Word is you should never say anything to her at a party as an aside. She'll print it in her books.