But, Luis, the Government Accounting Office, our official watch dog bureau that seems to have more integrity and common sense than most politically controlled bureaucrats, does not think it is much ado about nothing.
...SSA took no technical staff on this visit to assess system controls or data integrity processes. In effect, SSA only briefly observed the operations of the Mexican social security program. Moreover, SSA did not document its efforts or perform any additional analyses then, or at a later time, to assess the integrity of Mexico's social security data and the controls over that data. In particular, SSA officials provided no evidence they examined key elements of Mexico's program such as its controls over the posting of earnings and its processes for obtaining key birth and death information for Mexican citizens. Nor did SSA evaluate how access to Mexican data and records is controlled and monitored to prevent unauthorized use or whether internal and external audit functions exist to evaluate operations...
I'm sure there are fine, wonderful citizens of Mexico, Luis, that lead exemplary lives. I'm just as sure they don't work in Mexico's government bureaucracy.
That the SSA would be willing to give what amounts to the keys to our social security money vault to a foriegn government with a tradition steeped in corruption, incompetence and sheer criminality is beyond belief.
It takes very little imagination to picture the guy who dreamt up the idea of those matricula id's to have another brainstorm that results in him creating an army of imaginary Mexicans, all armed with the necessary documentation required to collect for him and his cronies, on both sides of the border, a pension paid for by US taxpayers.
How does someone else's money, taken from their paychecks by the government, become YOUR Social Security money?
Incredibly ignorant, unfounded statement.
Bring that brush over to my house, I have the side of a barn that requires painting.