Posted on 03/17/2015 7:41:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
I wonder whether most people truly understand the scope and import of Obama's lawless order to halt deportations and allow work permits for up to 5 million immigrants living illegally in the United States.
Do they understand that he doesn't have the constitutional authority to do this? Do they understand that he admitted not having the constitutional authority to do this? Do they understand that Congress considered and rejected such action when it declined to pass the DREAM Act? Do they understand that under Obama's rule, these immigrants will be eligible for Social Security payments and even receive credit, in some instances, for sums they paid into the Social Security system while using fraudulent Social Security numbers?
How much contempt for the law can a chief executive officer of the United States government demonstrate?
The Daily Caller is reporting that a Congressional Research Service memo provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee states that "under the November 20, 2014, policy memorandum, foreign nationals who receive deferred action status may be eligible for work authorization. As a result, a foreign national who receives deferred action status may be able to have all of his or her Social Security-covered earnings count toward qualifying for a Social Security benefit (all earnings from authorized and unauthorized work)."
This means that these immigrants will profit from their double wrongdoing -- being here illegally and using a fraudulent Social Security number -- at the hands of the very government that instituted those laws and whose duty it is to enforce them. These earnings could count toward their retirement, disability and survivor benefits.
I guess it will be as if it never happened. Under Obama's executive fiats, these immigrants will receive new Social Security numbers. New number, clean slate; stroke of the pen, law of the land.
As your friendly therapist might ask you, "how does that make you feel?"
Adding insult to injury -- and aggravation to anarchy -- Obama's White House is playing fast and loose with the truth on this matter. Shocker.
In November, an administration official told reporters that these immigrants would not be eligible for Social Security benefits. But as The Daily Caller notes, the White House changed its tune in December, saying the official had misspoken in November and that immigrants protected under Obama's action will be eligible for those benefits.
Who really believes that the administration official misspoke in November, as opposed to misrepresenting the facts to soften the blow of this already-outrageous executive action? Sen. Jeff Sessions wasn't buying it, and one of his spokesmen pointed out that this new eligibility "is an attack on working families (because) the amnestied illegal immigrants are largely older, lower-wage and lower-skilled and will draw billions more in benefits than they will pay in."
Seriously, how much more bad news could there be with this executive action?
It's funny you should ask. In fact, there is more to consider. Indeed, I must add more questions to my list at the beginning of this column. Do people truly realize that our entitlement programs, including Social Security, are in dire straits? Do they understand that at some point in the near future, entitlement benefits will consume 100 percent of federal tax revenues, such that there will be no money left over for discretionary spending? Do they realize that the president who is unduly burdening our fiscal condition is the same man who just exacerbated the pressures on that system by making these immigrants eligible for benefits?
More importantly, do they realize he's the primary person standing in the way of structural entitlement reform, which is necessary to avert the inevitable federal fiscal calamity? This is the same man who wants us to alter our entire way of life, block the Keystone XL pipeline and further burden us with quixotic spending on fantastic "green" projects because he sees global warming as the greatest threat to this nation and the world. So we have a tangible, undeniable fiscal crisis looming over our heads -- it will most likely materialize within 20 years -- and he chooses to ignore it while demanding radical action on global warming, which wouldn't make an appreciable difference in global temperature in a century, even if you believe the alarmism underlying this hysteria. But I digress.
Just in case you thought there are no further outrages to report here, I must inform you that the Justice Department filed an emergency motion last week asking a federal appeals court to suspend the injunction issued by a U.S. District Court in Texas against Obama's lawless amnesty order. In its motion, the highhanded DOJ characterized the District Court's injunction as "interfering with immigration enforcement." That would make George Orwell proud, for in fact, the District Court is doing just the opposite; it is trying to make the administration enforce the existing law, not the illegal one that Obama whisked into existence with his pen and phone.
The DOJ motion also argued, speciously, that the District Court injunction "offends basic separation-of-powers and federalism principles and impinges on core Executive functions." You've got to admit that these people have chutzpah. Again, their words are wholly at odds with the facts. Obama is the one who has grossly offended separation of powers and federalism principles and has exceeded his executive authority.
What a colossal, disgraceful nightmare we're experiencing.
In fact we are being ruled by a cadre of thousands of unelected bureaucrats, who are moving forward on Obama unconstitutional executive actions in spite of what the voters or any judge or politician says.
Our republic is dead - as dead as it can be while we still go through the farce of free elections.
Interestingly, if you are a regular citizen victim of identity theft, perhaps by these same aliens, the IRS won't help you out by changing your Social Security number.
The IRS won’t take you at your word when you say you qualify for the earned income tax credit, either, and give you a check for $25k.
Darn. I was counting on it.
Criminals.
There’s dozens of organizations like La Raza that will help them game the system, you can bet the farm fraud will be rampant. Those caught redhanded will suffer the same legal consequences as Hillary, and that means zilch.
For a president who believes that America is not exceptional, he sure wants to fundamentally transform it.
Transcript ff 1:14:
"...Americans should consider shariah law? We have plenty of muslims who are right now working in the White HOuse, in Homeland Security, in the FBI and CIA - Muslim jihadists, even today, in the military - because of Barack Hussein Obama. In the [??] program, Barack Hussein Obama brought all the illegal Muslims to America. He does not call them illegal Muslims in America. He calls them Muslims, no, immigrants without green cards. That is a political way for saying illegal Muslims who have (1) language skills or (2) medical skills. If you think of medical skills, thats like medical Hassan, Fort Hood, he was a doctor. An illegal Muslim who speaks a different language. They're all illegal living in America, all of them, have a language skill. If they join our military now,in ten weeks they become citizens. Some will say, well, they're willing to die for the sake of America. I'm sorry, illegal Muslim Americans will not die as we have language skill or if we have medical skills. They will be working in offices. These people should not be citizens and not serve in our military. I don't think we have learned anything from the Ft. Hood shooter because we have plenty of Muslims right now in our military. The day will come and they will destroy our country."
Usama Dakdok was born in Egypt and raised in a Christian home as the son of a Baptist pastor. He became a Christian at the age of eleven.
We all knew what was coming if Obama got another four years. I will say it again and don’t give a damn if some don’t like it. Thanks to all who stayed home last November or voted 3rd party. They really taught the GOP a lesson. And so here we are watching Obama complete the destruction of our country.
The only ones that can put a stop to all of this, is CONGRESS & SENATE. Unfortunately, our republicans in congress, except for a very few, has a “FOR SALE” sign TATTOOED on their backs. They’ve all been “BOUGHT AND PAID FOR”. Our republican senators, again, except for a very few, have the same “FOR SALE SIGN” “TATTOO” on their backs. Congress has the power of the purse, that they totally refuse to implement. We’ve elected a bunch of cowards that would rather feather their nests than protect their voters.
60 Minutes did a segment this past Sunday about how difficult it can be for people whose ID was stolen can deal with trying to get their lives back on track. They also discussed the problems that occur when a person who is alive is declared dead.
Then they admitted that the Soc Sec Admin has over 6.5 MILLION persons still on the books who get benefits who are over 112 years old.
This entire mess is a farce. With all the computers the Feds have, why cannot they get this straight? One lady had continued taking her mother’s soc sec checks since 1990. She never reported her mother dead & ‘she needed the money”. To say the least, this lady was black. Now, she is facing prison. She kept saying she had ‘never done anything wrong in her life’.
I swear that the black community has an entire different set of rules than the American white community.
I understand that, if he gets away with this, he won't stop at 5,000,0000 .... it'll be "allee infree", and the real number will be discovered, after the fact (with both political parties and every appointee trying furiously to cover it up) to be -- gee! whoa, wow! who knew? -- 30,000,000+ .
The radical action is to be taken, not for any climatological consideration (which as writer points out would be trivial anyway), but for the deleterious effect it would have on America's economy.
"The issues are never The Issue. The Revolution is the issue."
When they try to stop him, we can say with great confidence:
“Your fellow set a precedent. By your own example, a president may do whatever he likes without regard to the law.”
Simple - job security. Some lardass bureaucrat has to administer those bogus accounts.
>>>>In fact we are being ruled by a cadre of thousands of unelected bureaucrats, who are moving forward on Obama unconstitutional executive actions in spite of what the voters or any judge or politician says.
Our republic is dead - as dead as it can be while we still go through the farce of free elections. <<<<
As perfect a description as I’ve ever read about our crisis. Interesting that so many of those departments and bureaucracies now have their own SWAT teams, and they were in the news a few years back for ordered tens of millions of bullets for themselves.
The bastard should've been jailed for even suggesting this.
I, too, am distressed by those who stayed home or voted 3d party in 2012, but I suspect the only difference it made was in the number of votes that the 0vomit machine had to manufacture.
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