Interesting information Ol’ Dan Tucker.
I appreciate the post.
Certainly puts things into a different perspective doesn’t it.
So they knew they were talking half trillions if not downright trillions here.
I hadn’t realized this was going to illegal aliens also.
Once you circumvent the law, it just snowballs. Illegals shouldn’t be here. They have been too much of a drain already. Now this on top of it.
Just makes me even more upset on the topic.
Ol Dan is correct on this stuff. I had forgotten how many Repubs were in on this. I was about to post that Bush & Fox were in bed too. You know I despise Bush, and this is one of many reasons.
” I hadn’t realized this was going to illegal aliens also.”
BIG time!
This is just scratching the surface. There are many more details on my FR home page.
For instance, prior to 2001, it was against the law for banks to allow illegal aliens to obtain any type of credit in the US.
The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 changed all this. In it was a provision to allow US banks to accept the Mexican Matricula Consular card as ID despite the fact that the bearer's true identity is untraceable.
It also changed the banking laws to allow banks who served this 'minority' market to receive CRA credit.
And, then there's the US Social Security Totalization Agreement (with Mexico --signed June 2004) that would have allowed illegal aliens to apply for, and receive US Social Security benefits for the time they worked illegally in the USA. Not only that, but it would have allowed the illegal aliens to apply for, and receive USSS benefits for the illegal alien's family back home in Mexico, even if they had never stepped foot in the USA.
Thankfully, even though Bush's SS Commissioner signed the agreement, he was too cowardly to send it to Congress for approval, so it never went into effect.
What this shows is that as far as the US taxpayers/citizens are concerned, Bush was a complete disaster who, for the long term, did far more harm than good.
None of Bush's policies have been changed or reversed, nor do I expect that they ever will, even if the GOP controls both houses of Congress and the White House.
” So they knew they were talking half trillions if not downright trillions here.”
Like I told you, I spent the summer of 2006 trying to warn FReepers to get ready for the TRILLION dollar bloodbath, but they ridiculed me constantly, so I gave up. I wish I knew how
to pull up some of my old posts : )