Congress Votes to Give Illegals Social Security
by Jeff Davis
The trick to understanding the neocons is to ignore what they SAY. Watch what they DO. For example, don’t give any credence to the much-publicized announcement about 6,000 National Guardsmen being sent to the border (without their equipment, which is still in Iraq). It hasn’t happened yet. If Bush were serious about securing the border, he would send several active duty divisions, not a few thousand, second-rate, part-time troops.
While George W. Bush is babbling on the radio about sending troops to the border, and the Senate is passing cosmetic resolutions about making English this country’s only legal language, these same politicians are also voting to give illegal aliens YOUR Social Security benefits. You know, the ones that you pay for out of every paycheck? The ones that illegal aliens, since they are mostly paid in cash under the table, by definition do not pay for with taxes like you do?
A recent news article reports “The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment — even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents. ‘There was a felony they were committing, and now they can’t be prosecuted. That sounds like amnesty to me,’ said Sen. John Ensign… ‘We all know that millions of undocumented immigrants pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for years and sometimes decades while they work to contribute to our economy,” said Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican… Mr. Ensign was among 44 Republicans and five Democrats who voted to block such payouts. ‘It makes no sense to reward millions of illegal immigrants for criminal behavior while our Social Security system is already in crisis,’ said Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican. ‘Why in the world would we endorse this criminal activity with federal benefits? The Senate missed a big opportunity to improve this bill, and I doubt American seniors will be pleased with the result.’ ”
One of the big questions now preoccupying the minds of our lords and masters is the Hispanic vote. You know, all those illegal aliens who have been legalized in assorted amnesties over the past twenty years so big corporations could have a plentiful pool of cheap labor and keep your wages down? They’re voting now. It’s those Mexican and other immigrant votes that will tip the balance in the future. That’s what the politicians are struggling for, by giving the illegals the shirts off our backs.
It’s pretty obvious that this so-called “immigration reform” is all smoke and mirrors. The corporate fat cats who run this country have no intention whatsoever of cutting off their own cheap labor supply, and they simply don’t care how much damage millions of illegal aliens will do to America. As long as we keep voting for the likes of Bill Clinton and George Bush, the servants of the big corporations, nothing will change.