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Michelle Malkin: The criminal raid on Social Security
TownHall.com ^ | Wednesday, January 7, 2004 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 01/06/2004 11:26:08 PM PST by JohnHuang2

My 8-week-old son's Social Security card recently arrived in the mail. On the back, there's a stern warning: "Improper use of this card or number by anyone is punishable by fine, imprisonment or both."

Welcome to the world of government theft and selective enforcement, my boy.

While innocent babes who have yet to earn a penny are threatened with jail time for misusing Social Security cards, the Bush administration appears set this week to turn the ailing government pension program into an international relief fund for illegal alien workers who used counterfeit Social Security cards and stolen numbers to secure illegal jobs.

Unlike the bedtime stories I tell at night, I am not making this up.

This belated gift to the open-borders lobby and Mexican President Vicente Fox is part of a larger amnesty plan that has been in the works since before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. So, why exactly are we rewarding a country that has been obstinately opposed to the War on Terror? Go ask Mr. Brilliant, Karl Rove. This I do know: It couldn't have come at a worse time from either a fiscal or national security standpoint.

According to Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, benefits paid to retirees will exceed revenues in just 15 years. The pay-as-you-go system could go belly up as early as 2030. These projections don't take into account the economic impact of the Bush proposal, which would allow untold millions of illegal aliens from Mexico to collect full cash benefits for themselves and their families from their home country -- without having to work the required number of years that law-abiding American citizens must work to be eligible for payouts.

Reporter Joel Mowbray, who first exposed this treachery a year ago, noted that this raw deal may well cost overburdened U.S. taxpayers $345 billion over the next 20 years. Probably much more. As we know from experience, Social Security projections are notoriously off the mark.

The bureaucrats call this scheme "totalization." Try total prostration. The proposed agreement is nothing more than a transfer of wealth from those who play by the rules to those who willingly and knowingly mock our own immigration and tax laws. What are we doing promising lifetime Social Security paychecks to day laborers in Juarez when we can't even guarantee those benefits to workers here at home?

Unbelievably, the White House is trying to convince us to embrace this global ripoff because it "rewards work." No, it rewards criminal behavior. The plan will siphon off the hard-earned tax dollars of American workers who may never see a dime of their confiscated earnings and fork it over to foreigners guilty of at least four acts of federal law-breaking: crossing the border illegally, working illegally, engaging in tax fraud and using bogus documents.

Giving money to scam artists will simply result in more fraud -- not only by Mexican agricultural workers, but also by Middle Easterners such as Youssef Hmimssa, who provided fake Social Security numbers and fraudulent drivers' licenses to members of an accused terrorist cell in Detroit. "If you have the right connection, you can get anything," he testified before the Senate last fall.

The door is now open for all illegal aliens to collect retirement benefits using bogus Social Security cards. What's next: survivors' benefits for the families of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers?


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrantlist; immigration; michellemalkin; socialsecurity
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IMHO, Bush made two major mistakes since he took office; first the CFR and now this.

I wonder if the good decisions he made would outweigh the bad.
101 posted on 01/07/2004 3:57:34 PM PST by Chong (God Bless and Protect our Troops.)
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To: rbessenger
Nope, and we won't.
103 posted on 01/07/2004 4:06:06 PM PST by international american (support our troops.........revoke Hillary's visa!!)
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To: CWOJackson
If the DNC ran Zell Miller for President, they'd have my support.
104 posted on 01/07/2004 4:13:35 PM PST by Little Ray (Why settle for a Lesser Evil? Cthuhlu for President!)
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To: A Navy Vet
Hey, instead of complaining so much perhaps you should start taking Spanish lessons.
105 posted on 01/07/2004 4:31:52 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: Little Ray
"If the DNC ran Zell Miller for President, they'd have my support."

And I'm sure the DNC appreciates your support very much.

106 posted on 01/07/2004 4:32:29 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: VRWC_minion
According to Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, benefits paid to retirees will exceed revenues in just 15 years. The pay-as-you-go system could go belly up as early as 2030.

Bump.

107 posted on 01/07/2004 4:36:43 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: VRWC_minion
According to Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, benefits paid to retirees will exceed revenues in just 15 years. The pay-as-you-go system could go belly up as early as 2030.
108 posted on 01/07/2004 4:37:08 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: JustPiper
MM rocks bump. Can't wait to see her next column on bush & immigration.
109 posted on 01/07/2004 6:58:37 PM PST by tubavil
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To: JohnHuang2
Milton Friedman, Social Security Socialism, 1999
110 posted on 01/07/2004 7:06:40 PM PST by gipper81 (Kofi Annan, The Hague, the French, the Guinean foreign minister ... the usual suspects)
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To: 4Freedom; Lead Moderator
Count the number of times CWOJackson and Texasforever resorted to name-calling and personal attacks in the first 79 posts on this thread for yourself, LM.

Hey guy I made ONE post to that thread. All I saw was a temper tantrum from most of the posters, I said so and let them alone. What is your problem? I have probably posted a total of 30 posts over the last 3 months. Should I just stop all together?

111 posted on 01/07/2004 7:34:41 PM PST by Texasforever
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To: CWOJackson
Hey, instead of responding in not so clever quips, you should answer my question directly. Yearly: 1,000,000? 5,000,000? 15,000,000? 30,000,000? 70,000,000? You open border types never answer this question, ever. Because you know the next questions coming and don't have answers for them.
112 posted on 01/08/2004 1:03:38 AM PST by A Navy Vet (The Nanny State: from cradle to grave...for your protection...freedom be damned.)
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To: JohnHuang2
She was allowed to wait until her son was 8 years old? I thought you had to get a Social Security number for the kid before you popped it out to declare it as a dependent on your taxes.
113 posted on 01/08/2004 1:05:40 AM PST by Fledermaus (President Bush needs to go ahead and give illegal aliens the vote because he's lost mine!)
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To: freepatriot32
I hear ya man. The Democrats are turning into the Communist Party and the Republicans are filling in the gap by becoming Democrats.
114 posted on 01/08/2004 1:06:34 AM PST by Fledermaus (President Bush needs to go ahead and give illegal aliens the vote because he's lost mine!)
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To: CWOJackson
Typical bait and switch. No one or no party is against immigration. We are talking about massive illegal immigration.

Big, huge, enormous difference.
115 posted on 01/08/2004 1:08:32 AM PST by Fledermaus (President Bush needs to go ahead and give illegal aliens the vote because he's lost mine!)
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To: Fledermaus
She was allowed to wait until her son was 8 years old? I thought you had to get a Social Security number for the kid before you popped it out to declare it as a dependent on your taxes.

Yeah, I'm amazed that she was allowed to reproduce at all < /sarc >

First sentence in the article : "My 8-week-old son's ..."

116 posted on 01/08/2004 2:45:58 AM PST by dread78645 (Freedom?! What'cha gonna do with freedom?)
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To: Paul C. Jesup
You really have no clue about finance. I'm a CPA and a financial planner. I know you refuse to believe it because you are confused about how a pay as you go system works. All retirement plans will eventually have payouts that exceed revenues but it doesn't mean that from inception the payouts exceeded the revenues plus earnings. The funds we collect far exceed the value of the benefits paid out. The reason everyone talks about a

The SS is a good deal for the gov't and a terrible deal for its participants. The fact that the participants are not protected because the money isn't set aside is just further evidence that from the participants view that SS is a terreible deal for them,.

117 posted on 01/08/2004 6:03:18 AM PST by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: Texasforever; Lead Moderator; CWOJackson
"Should I just stop altogether?"

I took some time to read some of your posts prior to the Lead Moderator's attempt to bring civility to the immigration threads and all of the posts you made after.

IMHO, the Forum wouldn't miss your name-calling, personal attacking style, one bit.

Furthermore, according to the Lead Moderator, either you or CWOJackson were warned about flame war-baiting on these threads on a prior thread. That specific FReeper, or possibly the both of you, should have been given a time-out.

One of you for ignoring the warning and not cautioning the other to 'cool-it', with the name-calling and personal attacks, and the other for joining-in.

LM, is the 'trick', to being able to continue to 'bait' the FReepers on the other side of the issue into a flame war, to burn a thread down on a day we believe you're resting after what we perceive was a very busy day for you? ;^)

118 posted on 01/08/2004 6:46:01 AM PST by 4Freedom (America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
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To: 4Freedom
"LM, is the 'trick'... a day we believe you're resting after what we perceive was a very busy day for you? ;^)"

Part of the trick is to avoid constantly hinting of bias on my part or making little comments that I might not have been accurately presenting what my day was like (all with a little wink thrown in to show it was all justajoke wink wink). It tends to try my patience and make me believe that no matter what I do, I will get hit with those hints and flat out allegations made directly (by others, not you).

So now that I have that out of the way, I'll answer your question thusly. An approach I could take is to hit everyone I see doing the things that destroy these threads with a suspension when I see it. Given the amount of whining over the little bit I have done so far, I imagine that would cause a huge uproar, but if the forum wants it, they can let me know here on this thread and Jim and me and the rest of the moderators will discuss it.

Personally, I don't think you would like the way that would play out.

I included the other names on that reply only because you had pinged them. If you want to see who I scolded yesterday, then review my posts.

Regards

119 posted on 01/08/2004 7:04:09 AM PST by Lead Moderator
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To: VRWC_minion
It is called theft.
120 posted on 01/08/2004 12:23:45 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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