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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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To: CWOJackson; Lead Moderator; Texasforever
We anti-illegal immigrationists would appreciate your explaining the new rules governing civility on illegal immigration threads on FR to CWOJackson and Texasforever, LM.

CWOJackson has contributed more than 10 posts that are nothing more than bait to draw FReepers on the other side of the issue into a full-out flame war and that's exactly what this thread is beginning to degenerate into.

I call your specific attention to CWOJackson's #22 "I guess that beats menopause.", LM.

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.

If the new rules don't apply to FReepers on both sides of this issue, than nobody's going to follow them.

How many attempts at baiting anti-illegal immigration/anti-amnesty Freepers does the other side get before you sit them down, too?

81 posted on 01/07/2004 9:02:20 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
I'll respond to your post on this thread so as not to clutter up this one. It will be there momentarily. Thanks.
82 posted on 01/07/2004 9:05:43 AM PST by Lead Moderator
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To: JohnHuang2; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; international american; sauropod; TexasCajun; WarSlut; ...
Pinging Michelle's list...
83 posted on 01/07/2004 9:22:43 AM PST by cgk (Kraut, 1989: We must brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie & rage.)
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To: JohnHuang2
Bump. A sad day for conservatives. All that hard work--and our soldiers in Iraq will return to an America that belongs more to Vicente Fox than to their fellow citizens.
84 posted on 01/07/2004 9:25:22 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: cgk
Rush discussing NOW
85 posted on 01/07/2004 9:37:15 AM PST by NonValueAdded ("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." GWB 9/20/01)
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To: AAABEST
Bump.

Rush is reading this right now.
86 posted on 01/07/2004 9:38:49 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: cgk
Thanks for the ping! Good article,as usual.
87 posted on 01/07/2004 9:38:59 AM PST by international american (support our troops.........revoke Hillary's visa!!)
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To: wjcsux
grrrowl!
88 posted on 01/07/2004 9:42:28 AM PST by dben
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To: OXENinFLA
Rush read it pretty much word for word EXCEPT he left out one word from this sentence which I've indicated via strikeout.
"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. "

By accident or intentional?

89 posted on 01/07/2004 9:44:09 AM PST by NonValueAdded ("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." GWB 9/20/01)
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To: dben
All of that and brains, too! Yeow!
90 posted on 01/07/2004 9:50:10 AM PST by wjcsux (DemocRATS, out of touch with America, out of touch with reality.)
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To: wjcsux
I sure am glad that she is on our side..


91 posted on 01/07/2004 10:12:52 AM PST by dben
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To: dben
Too bad she is not the President:)
92 posted on 01/07/2004 10:16:36 AM PST by international american (support our troops.........revoke Hillary's visa!!)
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To: international american
Or head of the INS.
93 posted on 01/07/2004 10:17:09 AM PST by dben
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To: dben
sure am glad that she is on our side..
Amen!
94 posted on 01/07/2004 11:23:46 AM PST by wjcsux (DemocRATS, out of touch with America, out of touch with reality.)
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To: dben


Here is another one of ours. Nice being on the winning side, huh?
95 posted on 01/07/2004 11:30:13 AM PST by wjcsux (DemocRATS, out of touch with America, out of touch with reality.)
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To: gubamyster; FairOpinion; FoxFang; FITZ; moehoward; Nea Wood; Joe Hadenuf; sangoo; ...
Michelle rocks! Reminded me of a few horror stories in my family. And how they even steal SS #'s from dead babies
96 posted on 01/07/2004 2:29:51 PM PST by JustPiper (Register Independent and Write-In Tancredo for March !!!!)
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To: CWOJackson
You're avoiding my question as do all you open border types do. How many a year before the sheer numbers overwhelms and degrades the standard of living of the middle class? How many?
97 posted on 01/07/2004 3:42:26 PM PST by A Navy Vet (The Nanny State: from cradle to grave...for your protection...freedom be damned.)
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To: MEGoody
"If you're rights were truly eroding, your voice would be heard only by you in a lonely jail cell."

Your rights are being abridged or eliminated everytime Congress is in session. Or more recently by the Supreme Court for Campaign Finance Reform. Check out a book called Lost Rights by James Bovard.

98 posted on 01/07/2004 3:48:03 PM PST by A Navy Vet (The Nanny State: from cradle to grave...for your protection...freedom be damned.)
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To: international american
What really irks me is that Bush is so high in popularity right now that he could really use political momentum to forward CONSERVATISM (remember: dance with the one who brung ya'). His father did the same thing.

I can see having to compromise with the left or center if he was embattled going in to re-election but he is soaring in the polls, facing a serious clown (Dean) as an opponent and still we can't wrench conservative policies out of this president!!!!!!!

99 posted on 01/07/2004 3:48:22 PM PST by rbessenger
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To: JohnHuang2
bump
100 posted on 01/07/2004 3:49:45 PM PST by Lady Eileen
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