Posted on 01/05/2007 7:13:32 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman
Entitlements: About to become law is an agreement allowing illegal aliens to get Social Security benefits after only 18 months of employment in the U.S., further burdening a system on the brink of collapse.
Surveys have shown that more Americans believe in the existence of unidentified flying objects than in the promise that they'll ever get back what they've put into the Social Security system. It also is against current law for employers knowingly to hire individuals who are in this country illegally.
So it must be somewhat disconcerting for them to find out that about to become law is an agreement signed on June 29, 2004, between the U.S. Commissioner of Social Security and the director general of the Mexican Social Security Institute that allows illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits if they have as little as 18 months of employment history. U.S. citizens must show 10 years, or 40 quarters of job history, to collect benefits.
The first public copy of the U.S.-Mexico Totalization Agreement has been obtained, and, no, it wasn't on the first page of the New York Times. It was obtained after three years of wrangling and a Freedom of Information Act request by the TREA Senior Citizens League (tscl.org) which represents more than 1 million seniors. And, as the saying goes, the devil is in the details.
The agreement, which awaits President Bush's signature, can take effect without Congress' approval. All the Democratic Congress has to do is nothing. It doesn't have to vote to approve it — it has only 60 days to disapprove it, which isn't likely because they likely support allowing it to become law.
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I quit...
Is anyone other than me predicting violent revolution, if this becomes law?
Better stay healthy for the rest of my life.
Fabianist in charge, the sheep will take it.
That brings a song to mind.
FReepers, take up arms. I ought to buy one as well. We may need them.
It will be interesting to see how many of these secretive type documents GW signs in his final midnight hours of his last day in the Oval Office.
Revolution? Most Americans are more concerned with which teams are going to be in the Superbowl and what guests Oprah will have on today.
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Once again our government advances the interests of non-citizens (lawbreakers all) at the expense of its own people. Who, then, is representing our interests?
Before anyone posts something about us having similar agreements with several other countries, let me point out that none of those agreements are with Third World countries with economies like Mexico. This is a thorough and deliberate screwing of Americans who have paid in to Social Security for their entire working lives. Next we will be told we are "selfish" for not wanting to provide 75 million Mexicans with SS benefits. I suspect the signing of this agreement will be Bush's final act in office. I think we should ask every single presidential hopeful, however deluded, what they think about this proposed treaty.
I'm no longer a Republican ... I'm now a Patriot.
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I, too, find little green men in saucers more plausible than seeing any SS benefits when I retire.
I hope no one is insane enough to think SS will help in their golden years.
And because I was fortunate enough in the 60's and 70's to be a stay at home Mom I'm now paying the penalty for that. I can't collect my own SS as I don't have enough credit hours so depend on 1/2 of my husbands SS earnings. And yet if I were an illegal......working in USA for as little as 18 months I could collect SS. Something wrong with this picture and yet today it doesn't surprise me in the least. Thanks to our own government this is today's America...............
If Bush signs it, and Congress does not need to approve, and the NYT corp or Katie does not report it, how could there be a revolution? Nobody would find out.
Maybe after a few years, but by that time 56% of the USA will be illegals with 18 mos work history.
Well, that may be extreme. But I don't see Americans being willing to make the sacrifices needed to wage a revolution or even to start the first Civil War.
100% true.
Why do American citizens have to have 40 quarters and they only have to have a short time?
Clinton had the World Court document. Thankfully, he had sense enough not to sign it and leave it for the next Admin to deal with.
I doubt Bush will leave this one for the next Admin. The only reason he hasn't already signed it is fear of a DubaiPorts-Miers-type of repercussion. On the night of January 19, 2009, he won't be too concerned about repercussions.
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