Posted on 06/26/2012 8:34:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
You'd think he wouldn't have such persistent trouble with the "illegal" part of that.
Bad enough, as far as "the Rev" Al Sharpton is concerned, that Republicans want to rein in entitlement spending before America morphs into Greece and brings down much the world with it. (video clip after page break)
Sharpton angered that Republicans oppose entitlement funding - for illegals
Here's Sharpton on his MSNBC "PoliticsNation" show Friday night, talking with Florida Democratic Party chair Rod Smith and "HuffPost Live" host Alicia Menendez about President Obama's end-run around Congress on the DREAM Act --
SHARPTON: Now Alicia, while the president is moving in this that all of us agree is politically wise but is also something he has a core belief in and has always talked about, congressional Republicans are pounding the president's immigration, uh, bi-, decision and they're coming with legislation, for example, yesterday they pushed two bills, one that had 11 co-sponsors and it would require the Department of Homeland Security (Sharpton quotes from story in The Hill) '(to) make sure illegal immigrants don't receive Medicare, Social Security or food stamps.'
So, not only do you have the president making an affirmative step, you have Republicans in the Congress that are continuing to go after a very, very regressive kind of policy on human levels. We talking about Social Security, Medicare, food stamps. We talking about people that need help here.
MENENDEZ: Rev., it's even worse than that. They're addressing a problem that does not exist. There are so few incidences of what they're suggesting that I'm glad this is what they are putting their effort towards.
Even worse than that" -- yet utterly irrelevant at the same time, such that Menendez hopes Republicans focus on little else.
Contrary to what Menendez claims, Social Security fraud by illegal immigrants is a huge problem, according to an op-ed written by GOP Rep. Elton Gallegly of California, titled "Fraud by illegal immigrants destroying children's lives" and published by The Hill in April.
"The SSA Actuary estimates that 75 percent of illegal immigrants obtain and use a fraudulent Social Security number," Gallegly wrote. "The millions of victims include --
-- a 9-year-old boy who was denied Medicaid because wages were reported on his Social Security number.
-- a 13-year-old girl who was denied as a dependent on her family's tax return because she supposedly made too much money.
-- an 11-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl whose Social Security numbers are being used by multiple people for work authorization.
Gallegly cited a Carnegie Mellon CyLab survey finding that children are 51 times more likely to become victims of identity theft than adults.
Liberals sigh in response -- if only illegals stole Social Security numbers from dead people, no one would get hurt.
Menendez's claim about the alleged non-existence of food stamp fraud is equally ludicrous. As for Medicare abuse, little incentive exists when illegals receive health coverage through Medicaid.
Did you catch how Sharpton initially began describing Obama's immigration plan as a "bill"? Sharpton caught himself and referred to Obama's "decision" instead, seeing how Obama circumvented Congress and decided to enact law by himself.
A “civil rights activist” who doesn’t care that amnesty and illegal immigration literally take bread out of the mouths of millions of black Americans? Or did I miss something?
It is rich to see Sharpton fighting for the people imported to replace his people...
We need to send food stamps and welfare checks to every family south of the Border.
Most of these people are too poor to even get to the United States to become illegal aliens.
It’s not fair that we should only give these benefits to people who are fortunate enough to cross our border. We need to extend the benefits to everyone who would want to become an illegal alien in America but can’t afford the bus fare to the border.
Democrats love to give away other people’s money.
It shows how compassionate they are.
/s
Only if ‘RAT politicians and racebaiters are forced to start paying their “fair share” in taxes.
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
He has long been an imbecile race racketeer; Heinous Anus..
Nope. Didn’t miss a thing.
What does he mean there are people who need help here,I thought they have been here for decades are working and paying Social Security taxes,Rubio Said they are Valedictorians! Hell they dont need my Help
Stop distorting what Marco Rubio said. You sound like a liberal
Of course he is..how else do you get them to pull the (D) lever?
How much does Sharpton owe the IRS right now?
Elebenty-sebenty too which we must much....
That’s because Al Sharpton is an idiot with a mouth far bigger than his brain.
Nevertheless, he figures - and not without reason - that all those illegals will morph into Democrats once they’ve been made citizens with a mass (Democrat Party) amnesty.
LOL!
I wish I had money to run ads on Black Stations reminding them that Blacks are losers in this race game now. It’s a zero sum game.
I wish I had money to run ads on Black Stations reminding them that Blacks are losers in this race game now. It’s a zero sum game.
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