Do you believe illegal aliens should be able to collect social security benefits?
Yes 4% 193 votes
No 96% 4338 votes
Total: 4531 votes
Looks like President Bush and Vice President Vincet Fox will have to ignore the American public, as usual. Secretary of Interior Karl Rove will be lobbying the SSI with hopes to prove Americans mean exactly the opposite of these numbers.
Contact for Dana Rohrabacher, a man with a brain. My rep is the useless Jane Harman, who wouldn't surprise me a bit by voting for this insanity. If President Bush embraces this, he risks re-election.
I'm not finding anything current, yet, but Rohrabacher made it seem looming soon. Looks like this is partly State Dept. Someone on this thread said that. Gee, thanks, Powell.
"thus allowing people who split their careers between two countries to get retirement benefits from both. "
This is TOO funny. Just how many of us are gonna run on down there for a freakin' job!! Good greif.
Source: Joel Mowbry, "Illegal but Paid? The Question of Social Security for Mexicans," National Review, January 27, 2003. Daily Policy Digest
Friday, January 24, 2003
If top officials at the State Department and the Social Security Administration (SSA) implement a proposed agreement, the cost of Social Security could balloon by an additional $345 billion over the next two decades -- mostly for Mexican nationals who worked in the United States illegally, claims a report in National Review.
The proposed agreement, known as "Totalization," would combine the taxes paid into America's and a foreign country's respective social-security systems -- thus allowing people who split their careers between two countries to get retirement benefits from both.
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http://www.ncpa.org/iss/sos/2003/pd012403d.html