[AUgrad]

I wonder if the people receiving benefits have paid anything into the system. If not, this is nothing more than welfare.

[Joe Hadenuf]

It appears someone needs to remind Mr. Bush that he is President of the United States, not Mexico. Then again, do national boundaries even matter to this administration? Perhaps not.

As long as the government continues to leave the doors and windows to our house wide open, there will be no homeland security......

[cherry]

I am just getting so mad that our country is screwing its own people that Bush will not have my vote come election time...

here, my husband is struggling to hold on to his job, his company claiming bankruptcy as well as threatening to turn over its pension plan to the govt....which is a big screw job.....

of course, we make too much damn money for the dtr to get help at college...

and now our huge social security bill will just get larger thanks to these giveaways...

tax cuts?...for who I might ask....

tax cuts will be another snow job that looks good but does nothing for middle wage earners....nothing for the heart and soul of the country....

when is this going to end????

[carton253]

It is not welfare. As I understand it, legal workers from Mexico with green cards, etc. have earned social security benefits because they have paid social security tax. Many other workers from other nations have done the same. But a treaty (maybe not the right word) is needed so that the Mexican workers can receive their benefits. Workers from other nations that have the treaty currently are receiving their social security benefits.

I hope I got it right.

[Protagoras]

I wonder if the people receiving benefits have paid anything into the system.

I guess that would make it OK? If so, lets include any other people in the world who are dumb enough to get on the wagon.

If not, this is nothing more than welfare.

Kinda like all foreign aid?

I'm guessing you don't advocate expanding the program to include aliens.