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.’ ” (more…)