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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:51 AM
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Bu$h is writing Executive Order to give Illegal aliens SSI, it will bankrup...
the system and cause Massive invasion to get FREE CHECK for life

if he is so worried about it being broken why Fuck it up more

he is aiding and abetting criminals.. is this impeachable??

Fully 10% of Mexico's population has migrated to this country.. and i think 20,000,000 Mexicans have taken jobs form us and they are not going home, they dint even check for status anymore, there is no border patrol there is no border.

How can "undocumented" Illegal aliens sign legal documents and get SSI

I am disabled and get no disability, i cant work and my wife has had 3 jobs in the last 3 years 'outsourced'. her industry is totally destroyed. are 57 and cant afford to go to college. and she is going to lose this job is she wont move to mexico to teach mexicans how to do her job.. and there are only a hand full of people who can do it here..and outside the united states basically no one can.. that is why imports are crap.

I tried to get VocRehab but i was told unless i was blind or a quadriplegic i didn't qualify.
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TNDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:54 AM
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1. He wants to bankrupt the system.
Then it will go away forever.
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RuleofLaw Donating Member (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:56 AM
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2. Actually,
without knowing the specifics, this might not be as bad as you think. Because this also means that they will have to pay into Social Security, and thereby increasing the pool of people who are paying into the system.

But like I said, I am not aware of the specifics.
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 11:18 AM
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18. Actually, some of them already pay into the system.
Edited on Fri Dec-31-04 11:21 AM by w4rma
They give their employer a fake SS# and the employer pays the payroll taxes into the system before they get a paycheck.

Although the ones who are paid in cash will *never* pay into the system no matter what.
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:56 AM
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3. What's your source for this?
If this is true, he has just presented an enormous vulnerable front to broadside with an endless firestorm of outrage.

Time to fire off LTTEs, after confirming it.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:09 AM
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12. Yep--this definitely calls for a reliable source.
Edited on Fri Dec-31-04 10:19 AM by blondeatlast
I need a source.

My husband is a LEGAL immigrant, and I'm sympathetic to undocumented workers (I live in AZ, they are my neighbors). They are just trying to survive, many far away from friends and family (they usually send money home for their families).

I REALLY need a source.

Till then, calm down, kids, calm down.
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:56 AM
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4. If they paid into the system as those who would qualify have
then they should benefit from the system. I feel for you but we can't blame our woes on Mexico or immigrants. These people are just trying to survive and provide for their families.
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:56 AM
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5. linky please
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:56 AM
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6. Yeah, I really wanted that job doing roofing work in August
in South Texas but that damned illegal alien got it instead of me. I really wanted to use that mop to swab that hot tar all over that roof when it was 120 degrees on that roof but I got cheated.

I also wanted that job doing tile work in new housing additions but another illegal alien got that job too.

And my wife really, REALLY wanted that job as a maid at the Best Western Inn on the Interstate. I just don't know what we're going to do now.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:01 AM
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9. I'm so sick of hearing about jobs that we don't want
I know plenty of people who are out of work and would gladly do those things (and I live in Houston). The problem is that there are street corners with illegals standing around. If you need day workers, you just pull up, flash fingers, and the number indicated will hop into the back of your truck. They aren't paying into SS, they are paid in cash, completely under the table.
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K-W Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:06 AM
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11. Yep, it has nothing to do with the job and everything to do with the wage
Most people wont do horrible jobs for poverty wages.

How scandalous.
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K-W Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:05 AM
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10. And rather than adjusting wages to attract workers.
As would be done in a true market economy, we find workers who not only will do anything(because they have no other choice), but will take sub living wages to do it (because they have no other choice).

God forbid a corporation has to actually pay someone a fair price for thier labor.
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:57 AM
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7. SSI is not part of the Social Security payroll tax system
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a Federal income supplement program funded by general tax revenues (not Social Security taxes): It is designed to help aged, blind, and disabled people, who have little or no income; and It provides cash to meet basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter.

It does not depend on prior work status, and does not depend on prior payment of payroll taxes.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:58 AM
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8. Do you have a link?
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:21 AM
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13. Edit: SSI not the same as Social Security.
Edited on Fri Dec-31-04 11:06 AM by blondeatlast
Still, I need a link to the OP story.
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Kindigger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 11:03 AM
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14. As hard as it is to get disability...
unless its obvious, like missing limbs, blindness etc. one(usually) needs a great deal of doctor/hospital documentation to qualify. How many illegal aliens do you suppose have such a file? You also have to show you are currently undergoing treatment for a disorder(s).

I suppose they could be showing up at hospitals, and having the bills written off under a hospital "indigent" program, but I don't believe they would qualify for State programs for low-income people to get medical care. I think they ask for your SS number.

If I'm wrong...this is total BS.

....Just thinking
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thecrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 11:03 AM
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15. Here's a link
www.ssa.gov/notices/supplemental-security-income/

Don't know what's on the page; haven't read it. Just a link.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 11:11 AM
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16. From a Google of "SSI, illegal aliens:"
Edited on Fri Dec-31-04 11:13 AM by blondeatlast
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=illegal+aliens+SSI

Note the first link, as well as the DATE in the first story.

"Undocumented workers, SSI" yields much different results:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=undocumented+workers+SSI

Edit: this, by all accounts, old news. It's been done already.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 11:16 AM
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17. actually I have heard this story on Lou Dobbs on CNN several
times as there are some congress people against the idea.
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