[azhenfud]

It was a dismal day when in 2004 Vicente Fox announced the totalization plan before a group of legal and illegals in Chicago a full two weeks before such an ill-conceived raping of Americans would be announced to the American taxpayer by our own elected "leaters".

Then, to top it off, the agreement was to be ratified by the Mexican Congress but the US Congress would only be allowed to "review" it.

That was my final straw with the disgusting Bush Administration.

[texastoo]

It’s important to note that Congress, like the American people, heretofore had not seen this totalization agreement. This decision to expand our single largest entitlement program was made with no input from the legislative branch of government.

Only Bush and Mexico had seen the largest entitlement agreement of giving hard working money to Mexico. Even Congress was locked out of the agreement via FOIA. This all done by so-called Republicans.

Those in favor of sending U.S. Social Security benefits to Mexican citizens argue that crushing poverty in Mexico demands some form of U.S. assistance to that country's aged. While poverty in Mexico truly is deplorable and saddening, the fact remains that Congress has no constitutional authority to enact what is essentially another foreign aid program.

We thought we bailed Mexico out with NAFTA but 12 years later it has proved to be a dismal failure.