FRANKSMITHSAYSNB EDITORIAL:
Washington: A measure to give 57 million elderly people, veterans and persons with disabilities a $250 check in 2010 was rejected by the senate on Wednesday.
A complete setback for the seniors lobby.
This of course was to offset for the no increase to the Social Security cost of living increases for the next two years.
Friday, March 5, 2010
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SCREWED IS RIGHT
Perhaps that money was used for the Bank Bailouts???
We're not as important as illegal aliens!
We are going to withhold treatment from the seniors, let them all die since they've lived enough in Obama's communist eyes, and use the money we save to give free health care to illegal aliens who are criminals that belong in prison just by the fact that they are here.
Just start rounding the criminal illegals all up and throwing them all in jail and see how fast they flee for Mexico.
Joe Arpaio should be President. He would fix everything overnight!
VIVA SHERIFF JOE!
The government can give millions to banks to bail them out of poor mismanagement, but won't approve $250 to each Social Security recipient? That makes a lot of sense!! ):
Hey, they need the money so they can line their own pockets and self interests. How else can the senate they afford all the vacations they get. Vacations cost money people. The Senate works very hard to help the people. As an example they are trying to pass this expense health care bill before they go on vacations because they know what is better for you.
S.O.S. - SAVE OUR SOULS a.k.a. Save Our Social Security...
President Obama Solution to Social Security and Immigration Reform Bill?
On June 29, 2004, the U.S. Commissioner of Social Security and The Director General of the Mexican Social Security Institute reached an agreement – ( http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03993.pdf) - the so-called Totalization Agreement. While it took three years of wrangling with Freedom of Information Act by the TREA Senior Citizens League to obtain the document entitled “Social Security – Proposed Totalization Agreement with Mexico”.
The seniors group (TREA) knew that if illegal aliens get legal status -- through an amnesty or some sort of legalization plan such as the one the President and the Senate tried to enact in 2006 -- it would allow illegal immigrants, mostly from Mexico, to gain legal status and access to Social Security benefits for their relatives, children and other dependents.
What the agreement reveals is that the United States will permit illegal aliens from Mexico to collect Social Security benefits if they have as little as 18 months of U.S. employment history. In contrast, U.S. citizens must show 10 years -- 40 quarters -- of perfectly legal job history to collect same Social Security benefits.
Despite the fact that it's illegal for employers to knowingly hire individuals who are in this country illegally, the agreement which awaits the President’s Obama signature, can take effect without Congress' approval. The current 2010 Democratic Congress doesn't have to vote to approve it -- it has only 60 days to disapprove it, which isn't likely because they likely support allowing the agreement to become law.
This agreement would drain more billions from a Social Security system that already lists a $14 trillion liability and assets of only $3.5 trillion, according to a 2003 report generated by the Center for Immigration Studies. And it's worth noting that virtually none of those $3.5 billion in "assets" consists of gold bars or even bundled greenbacks sitting in some government vault.
These so-called "Totalization" Agreements are common -- the United States has them with 20 other countries. Their goal is to avoid double taxation when employers assign employees to work temporarily in another country. But, "Totalization” was not designed or intended to cover millions of illegal aliens sneaking past the southern U.S. Border Patrol from what is a borderline Third World country.
The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that there are between 3.4 and 5.7 million unauthorized Mexican citizens in the United States and the Urban Institute has estimated that there are more than 4 million according to GAO-03-993 Social Security Report to Congressional Requesters.
The vast majority of individual tax returns are filed using a social Security Number (SSN) as identification. However, there are instances where alien individuals will file a U.S. tax return. To enable these individuals to file, Treasury Regulations were issued in 1996 to provide them with Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN).
An ITIN is intended for tax purposes only and creates no inference regarding an alien individual’s right to live in the U.S. or be illegally employed here. A study done by the Inspector General’s Office of the Department of Treasury found that 55 percent of illegal aliens who filed income tax returns using tax identification numbers had no federal income tax liability, reflecting their income and large number of dependent.
An analysis of Forms 1040 filed in Tax year 2001 with ITINs found that approximately 530,000 Forms 1040 were filed with ITINs as the primary number by aliens with the number increasing each passing 5 years.
All American’s should be concerned about illegal aliens coming here and getting as good a deal from our government “entitlement” programs with their U.S. Citizenship.
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