[Toonces T. Cat]

I want to correct the notion that the individuals residing in Mexico that will receive the payments are illegal aliens. They are individuals that worked in the U.S. legally as resident aliens or with Green Cards and managed to earn enough social security credits to be eligible for benefits. My point being that these people did, in fact, pay into the system. In my opinion, if we do not intend to allow these folks to collect the benefits at some point, then I have to question the ethics of taking it out of their pay checks in the first place.

Hey...fair is fair...:-)

-Toonces

[Ben Ficklin]

While I agree with you that anyone that has paid, should be entitled, I think you could be wrong about who all will be entitled.

Previous articles have stated that even those that used fake SS numbers would be entitled, if they could prove it.

There is much speculation on this issue with everything in the media based on an "intercepted internal memo"(leak).