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Lack of immigration reform could hurt baby-boomer retirees, Graham says
postandcourier.com ^ | 8/7/14 | Schuyler Kropf

Posted on 08/07/2014 6:03:52 PM PDT by cotton1706

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says America's retirement system could be at risk unless the nation's immigration problems get fixed.

In a speech to a Charleston business group, Graham said the U.S.'s graying population means there will be fewer workers in the job stream to keep stocking stressed government budget and benefit accounts, including Social Security.

And if the future economy includes millions of illegal workers who don't pay in, then benefits that a growing numbers of Americans will depend on for retirement will become even more drained, he said, pointing at an expected "tsunami" of retirements by 80 million Baby Boomers in the next decades.

"If you're down to two workers for every retiree, you better reform your immigration system," Graham said, "because you're going to need people from outside this country to fill the workforce."

Graham's comments came Thursday during the monthly Small Business Lunch at Halls Chophouse in Charleston.

Estimates are that there are between 11 million and 12 million illegal immigrants in the country today, many of whom are filling lower skilled positions in the manual labor, restaurant and home-building sectors - areas which often draw little scrutiny.

"It's not that Americans are lazy, we've just moved on," Graham said in describing the trend in what jobs are being taken.

(Excerpt) Read more at postandcourier.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; elections; gopestablishment; grahamnesty; lindagraham; rinos
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To: cotton1706
Scream for more immigration to fill low end jobs and then cry with a complete lack of comprehension when low end jobs stay at a low pay rate for decades.
21 posted on 08/07/2014 6:34:00 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: odawg

Amen! Lindsey Graham is a traitor to Americans. We need a business commercial culture that is dependent on responsible spending and minimal debt, and not over populating the US with those more likely to be on the dole than off for cheap labor.


22 posted on 08/07/2014 6:34:44 PM PDT by apoliticalone
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To: cotton1706

Desperate, but SMART strategy. By saying if you don’t DESTROY the country in long term, life may be a bit tougher for you guys in the short term.

He is appealing to the SELFISHNESS and HATRED that the Baby Boom generation has towards this country - it just may work.

It also does sound like he’s about out of options in trying to sucker the Republican Party to go his way.

(and I know, not all boomers, and certainly not the ones that post here - but you are outnumbered in our society)


23 posted on 08/07/2014 6:35:43 PM PDT by BobL
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To: cotton1706

Linda is a pathological liar. Comes from pretending not to be a homosexual for so long.


24 posted on 08/07/2014 6:36:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: cotton1706

Just spitballin here....

How about we let in more LEGAL immigrants with proven/required trade skills


25 posted on 08/07/2014 6:49:17 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: cotton1706

How is the addition of 20 million America hating welfare leeches going to restore the solvency of America’s failed social security system?


26 posted on 08/07/2014 6:51:13 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: cotton1706

Abortion has killed off the next generation of US Citizen workers, and the middle aged ones are looking for work or trying to hold on to what they have, younger, GOOD LUCK finding a job if you have not higher than HS skills. You can’t compete with the ILLEGALS.


27 posted on 08/07/2014 6:52:17 PM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: cotton1706

Exactly—and yet they think we’ll fall for it.


28 posted on 08/07/2014 6:54:22 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: cotton1706

LINDSEY GRAHAM IS A FECKLESS, DUPLCITOUS, TREACHOUS, BACKSTABBIBNG DOUBLE DEALING CORK SUCKER.


29 posted on 08/07/2014 7:00:34 PM PDT by amnestynone (A big government conservative is just a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes.)
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To: cotton1706

Lindsey Boy might lose his senator-ship now that a third party conservative has announced in South Carolina...

The Tea Party types (I am one, but in Texas) might decide splitting the vote and sending a real progressive instead of a pseudo-progressive to Washington might not make any difference and send a message to his GOPe (rhymes with DOPe) friends.


30 posted on 08/07/2014 7:10:09 PM PDT by CenTex (November 6, 2012... A day that will live in infamy!!!)
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To: cotton1706

I’ll take my effing chances A$$hole !


31 posted on 08/07/2014 7:13:21 PM PDT by onona (IÂ’ve pretty much given up on sanity returning.)
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To: cotton1706

Actually Lindsay, all you have to do is tell all of the Democrat voting baby boomers that they will not be receiving any Social Security as they were voting all of those years to murder all of the babies who would be in their 20s, 30s, and 40s now and paying into Socail Security.


32 posted on 08/07/2014 7:28:19 PM PDT by anonsquared
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To: CenTex

This is one South Carolinian who won't be voting for Ms. Graham.

33 posted on 08/07/2014 7:29:25 PM PDT by John 3_19-21 (First let me apologise for being white, and male.)
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No Way Jose (No Se Puede!) by 10 Pound Test

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

34 posted on 08/07/2014 7:50:45 PM PDT by wku man ("Weenie in a Hybrid" by 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdLDSB_6gY)
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To: cotton1706
How does adding people to a Ponzi scheme save it?
How does adding poor people who will be net beneficiaries help? That's like adding people to a sinking ship. If we were adding millionaires, this might work.
35 posted on 08/07/2014 7:56:10 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: cotton1706

Graham is a moron.


36 posted on 08/07/2014 8:03:05 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: cotton1706

Nobody says welfare is running out of money... but social security is!

Funny, because social security is said to be paid to those who earned it... but welfare will always be funded for those who never earned it. Ain’t socialism great?


37 posted on 08/07/2014 8:09:53 PM PDT by glock rocks (In DC, nobody can hear you scream)
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To: cotton1706

Fock off Goober.


38 posted on 08/07/2014 9:37:01 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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