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?
And I'm sure the DNC appreciates your support very much.
Bump.
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?
Yeah, I'm amazed that she was allowed to reproduce at all < /sarc >
First sentence in the article : "My 8-week-old son's ..."
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,.
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? ;^)
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
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