I knew a guy once, who was an EMT in the NYC area and he said when they’d get to an accident scene, everyone was speaking English and telling what happened.
Soon as the police showed up it was *No hablo ingles* and they’d have to get an interpreter.
He didn’t believe for a minute that someone who has been in this country for any length of time didn’t know English. He said they were usually faking it.
And so, if they know that inability to speak English absolutely qualifies them to receive SS benefits, of course they don’t know it.
We have so many people living off government programs, it is almost impossible for a democratically elected government to get these programs back on some course for their original purposes. Of course none are pay as you go, they are pay out as we borrow. Currently we are running at about a trillion a year deficit. Ever wonder where all the “money†went. Look at the cost of things like housing and precious metals to name a few. Money chasing fixed assets, the more money in circulation the more prices go up. Cold once was 35 dollars to the ounce. Now it is like 1500. Housing prices, without extremely low interest rates, few could pay a mortgage for houses today. It is that simple. Eventually the bubble bursts by needing bushel basket of currency to buy a loaf of bread or by having to tax those dumb enough to work out of existence. So, my point is the longer we keep kicking the can down the road and kowtow to every “need” of the non producers, the worse it will be at the end. FWIW, just yesterday I read we are sending “reparations” to those who were on Guam when the Japs took it over during WWII for atrocities they committed. Why the hell are we doing that. Whose is next, those in Manila?