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Michelle Malkin: The criminal raid on Social Security
TownHall.com ^ | Wednesday, January 7, 2004 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 01/06/2004 11:26:08 PM PST by JohnHuang2

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To: CWOJackson
You really must check out the brilliant political insights over here.

LOL. Temper tantrums.

21 posted on 01/07/2004 1:21:08 AM PST by Texasforever
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To: Texasforever
I guess that beats menopause.
22 posted on 01/07/2004 1:22:28 AM PST by CWOJackson
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To: JohnHuang2
It is amazing that Bush might really intend to raid the fragile Social Security program and reward those who would have committed felony document fraud or at least claim they did. There will be no proof needed and you can bet millions will claim to have worked using a SS number they never used. Even Bush's supporters admit he would be doing this to buy some votes. He must be very desperate to win the election if he had to go this far.
23 posted on 01/07/2004 1:49:45 AM PST by FITZ
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Wesley Clark on Immigration

I am very pro-immigration Why wouldn't we want to bring in the best and brightest people from all around the world, and say "come and take your chance in the 21st century on America"? Become Americans. Do what people have done for centuries when they sought a new frontier, a new environment, a new opportunity. Come here. Help us create jobs and intellectual capital in America. So I am very pro-immigration.

Source: WCGU-FM interview on "Sound Off With Sasha" Jun 27, 2003

Immigration is vital to prosperity

We're a nation of immigrants. We should be encouraging every person from the Indian Institute of Technology that comes to this country to stay in this country. Become an American citizen. Join with us. Make a great company. Let's all be wealthy and prosperous and happy together. Immigration has a vital part to play in that process. Source: Speech at the New Democrat Network Jun 17, 2003

24 posted on 01/07/2004 1:56:11 AM PST by CWOJackson
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Howard Dean - Immigration

America is an immigrant nation. As President, I will recognize and respect the vital role immigrants have played in building the American Community.

Candidate Bush promised that he would be a different kind of Republican, supportive of immigrants and their desires to achieve the American Dream. Candidate Bush promised to revamp the naturalization process so that immigrants who met the requirements could obtain their citizenship in six months or less. Unfortunately, President Bush has not kept these promises.

While he made these promises, his Attorney General John Ashcroft was deputizing local police authorities as junior INS agents to track down undocumented immigrants. He has ignored the dreams of millions of immigrants to become a legitimate part of our society, and not simply its unseen workforce.

As President, I will work to ensure that people who work hard, pay taxes, and otherwise obey the rules can become full participants in our society, including becoming citizens. I will work to regularize the migration of labor in a way that makes economic and humanitarian sense. Deaths in the desert do neither. I will propose reforms that ensure we can meet our economy's need for workers at all skill levels, without pitting foreign workers against U.S. workers and while respecting workers' rights -- including the right to organize.

I will work to ensure that immigrants who are detained by the Department of Homeland Security are afforded their basic civil rights. I will build on our country's long history of welcoming immigrants in ways that reflect our need for security but do not sacrifice the basic ideals upon which this nation was founded.

25 posted on 01/07/2004 2:08:34 AM PST by CWOJackson
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Harry Browne on Immigration

Immigrants create demand rather than take jobs away Four worries drive most of the opposition to immigration: JOBS: A new immigrant brings with him a need for products and services-which his job gives him the money to buy. So the immigrant has no net effect on the competition for jobs or the level of wages. Immigrants don’t take jobs away from Americans. They increase the demand for labor and they help meet that demand.

CULTURE: The answer to the culture problem isn’t to keep immigrants out, but to restore the America of free individuals, each responsible and self-governing. Immigrants will embrace our culture more quickly when government stops trying to dissolve it.

NOT ENOUGH ROOM: The US is still a country of wide open spaces. America could triple its population without our existing cities growing any faster than they do now.

Maintain open borders; end war on immigration End welfare, so that America attracts productive immigrants, rather than people who want to live off the taxpayers. Maintain open borders and a free market--so that America is a haven for people who want to produce in freedom. Government doesn’t work, and a government War on Immigration will be no more successful than the War on Poverty or the War on Drugs.

26 posted on 01/07/2004 2:11:49 AM PST by CWOJackson
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To: FITZ
There will be no proof needed and you can bet millions will claim to have worked using a SS number they never used.

Wouldn't it be ironic if all the Free Traitors™ got their SS acounts hijacked through this program?

27 posted on 01/07/2004 2:15:17 AM PST by meadsjn
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To: CWOJackson
Give it a rest. That is NOT what is going to happen. His words are election year rhetoric and pandering. As long as it's OUR guy saying socialism is good, than there can be no wrong?
28 posted on 01/07/2004 2:52:12 AM PST by A Navy Vet (The Nanny State: from cradle to grave...for your protection...freedom be damned.)
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To: A Navy Vet
Socialism? Yes, I heard that very same argument from other unappeasables. It makes me chuckle every time I hear it.
29 posted on 01/07/2004 2:54:44 AM PST by CWOJackson
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To: JohnHuang2; Kevin Curry
Thanks for the post and the quote of the day.
30 posted on 01/07/2004 3:04:36 AM PST by PGalt
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To: meadsjn
I'm sure the organized crime rings in Mexico and along the border are already gearing up for this --- they can obtain Social Security numbers of American citizens who have been deceased for a while --- then the Mexican citizens can buy these, and claim they stold the number years ago and it was really they who were working and paying into Social Security. That way no one else is using the number making it more possible that the illegal making the claim is detected --- not that I think the government would bother preventing fraud ---- the dead American already got their SS check if they lived long enough, and now the foreign citizen gets one too.
31 posted on 01/07/2004 3:05:14 AM PST by FITZ
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To: TLI
If we are going this far, we should support removing the border with Mexico altogether and annexing the whole place.

Having Americans own all the land and able to make money from exploiting the natural resources and labor pool would at least provide us with some compensation for all the trouble we get from unidirectional border removal.

32 posted on 01/07/2004 3:09:01 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: MissAmericanPie; All
Im willing to bet there will be celebrations in Mexico tomorrow night!!

Bush obviously thinks more of illegal aliens than his supporters.

33 posted on 01/07/2004 3:20:21 AM PST by expatguy
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To: CWOJackson
"Yes, I heard that very same argument from other unappeasables."

Fine, put the "unappeasable" label on it if you like. Us who are concerned about the eroding Constitutional protected rights will still have our voice heard. Chuckle your way to the socialism that is growing in both parties. Have your laugh. Just remember, you will be one of the "uappeasable" when the RIGHT that you cherish has been abridged. It's happening daily.

34 posted on 01/07/2004 3:21:19 AM PST by A Navy Vet (The Nanny State: from cradle to grave...for your protection...freedom be damned.)
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To: MissAmericanPie
Fact: What was supposed to be a one and only time amnesty by Reagan has resulted in 10 to 14 million criminals living in America. They were waiting for the 2nd and last amnesty.

Questions: Ask our deceptive President when will we have the 3rd and final amnesty. What will the numbers be and what color flag will be flying over the White House when it happens?

35 posted on 01/07/2004 3:23:34 AM PST by B4Ranch (Wave your flag, don't waive your rights!)
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To: CWOJackson
One other thing, I'm not some whacko conspritist, but I do have eyes and ears and see that our leaders are turning this wonderful and unique human contract into a mob rule democracy from a representative Republic...soley for the benefit of their own incumbency...which the Founding Fathers neither envisioned nor sactioned.
36 posted on 01/07/2004 3:36:41 AM PST by A Navy Vet (The Nanny State: from cradle to grave...for your protection...freedom be damned.)
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To: A Navy Vet
Wow...you see all that? I had an uncle that saw stuff like that once to. He was harmless though.
37 posted on 01/07/2004 3:42:34 AM PST by CWOJackson
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To: CWOJackson
You think that's clever, but have you ever read "Lost Rights" by James Bovard? It's years old, but so many basic rights have been abridged since then, I can't even enumerate them. Enjoy your "team", while you can.
38 posted on 01/07/2004 3:47:41 AM PST by A Navy Vet (The Nanny State: from cradle to grave...for your protection...freedom be damned.)
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To: A Navy Vet
You read also? Cool.
39 posted on 01/07/2004 3:49:12 AM PST by CWOJackson (abstinence, abstinence, abstinence, abstinence, abstinence)
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To: CWOJackson
"You read also? Cool."

No, I use crib (sp) sheets...:)

40 posted on 01/07/2004 3:53:57 AM PST by A Navy Vet (The Nanny State: from cradle to grave...for your protection...freedom be damned.)
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