Comments on: Social Security and Illegal Immigration

By: floyd

floyd — Sat, 20 May 2006 00:54:37 +0000

bithead; the "boomer crunch" is a lie,check it out.

By: floyd

floyd — Sat, 20 May 2006 00:13:10 +0000

a word about governmental promises and the teaching of history. to quote paul simon; it's " all lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...lie la lie, lie la lie lie lie la lie, la la la lie." what used to be cyicism is now only realism.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:31:47 +0000

Uhhhmmm...Anjin-san where did I write or imply that? Seems to me the only rational answer is: nowhere. Of course, you've shown that you've been backing away from your rationality for quite awhile now.

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Fri, 19 May 2006 07:11:38 +0000

So if the right shrieks loudly enough about illegals we will forget about Bush's disaster in Iraq, spying on Americans, bottomless budget deficit, katrina relief fiasco, etc. etc?

Don't think so.

Maybe Bush should have funded the border patrol properly years ago if he cared about this issue.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:13:18 +0000

Bithead, That is just it, they have been paying into the system. So we could flip your complaint around and ask, "Why shouldn't they benefit from the system they have been paying into?" As for the "robing Peter to pay Paul" complaint that applies to everybody and all of Social Security which is nothing more than a gigantic welfare program...for one of the richest demographics out there. Go figure.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Fri, 19 May 2006 01:53:33 +0000

Now, that is just my reading of this and I could be wrong. But if this is the case, there sure seems to be alot of outrage over what will likely amount to a small amount of moneyâ�¦maybe several billion paid out a couple of decades down the road.

So, by what moral right Do you steel from my pocket to put it into somebody else's, particularly when they haven't been paying into the system, and I already am not going to get nearly what I put into it? The very idea of "Social Security" is bad enough. Adding this to the mix makes it even worse precisely when we don't need the help given the boomer crunch.

By: wovoka

wovoka — Fri, 19 May 2006 00:20:07 +0000

I believe the bill was passed in the Senate and 13 of those meatheads voted to allow benefits to felons with no more than three convictions.
What has happened to reason and ratonal thinking in our government?