Two Misguided Campaigns: Ending Birthright Citizenship and Raising Social Security Retirement Age

RE: Probably an anchor baby!

SEE HERE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Ponnuru

I think both his parents were American when he was born.

Ponnuru was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. He attended Briarwood Elementary School and Mission Valley Middle School. He skipped the 8th grade and directly entered high school. After graduating from Shawnee Mission East High School at the age of 15, he went to Princeton University, where he earned a B.A. in history and graduated summa cum laude.

Raised by a Hindu father and a Lutheran mother, Ponnuru is of Asian Indian descent and has converted to Roman Catholicism from agnosticism.

He is married to April Ponnuru.

Nevertheless, you find that people who are a generation or two from somewhere else, want to “clear the way” for their fellow countrymen to come here. Those that have the means of communication, like this guy, talk as though they and “their people” are somehow “special” and deserve to come here and get a free ride.

Best would be to eliminate social Security altogether with a one year taper down. A substantial part of my income is Social Security. I also work a $9 an hour job. I can't "afford" for it to go away. I also know that it is going to go away no matter what. I don't feel that my investment in it forces me to demand my due return if its continuation will collapse the economy. For most folks, including most who call themselves Constitutionalists and Conservatives, welfare and other transfer payments have to go, they know that but they ALWAYS say, everybody else's welfare has to go, not mine. I better get a raise! The whole economy can come down and everyone else can starve but I better get my particular welfare payment. And yes Social Security IS welfare. It doesn't matter how much you paid. Legally that money is not connected to your "benefits." It is, in fact gone. It went into General Revenue. The money you will/would get starting next year is purely money being taken from others as they pay it in. The fiction that there ever was a "fund" is no longer supportable. Starting next year SS pays out more than it takes in and there is NO savings, NO fund.

I hope you are enraged. The government has done this to us. You and 99% of everyone else, including otherwise conservative people will do what you can to push the economy over the precipice and end the farce even sooner to protect what you think is your due.

how funny!

you are collecting SS (and perhaps have been for many years) yet you propose that those under age 55 should get none.

and I am not enraged. it’s been quite obvious to me for decades that SS is a scam. after all, the first SS recipient contributed $25 into the system and collected ~$25,000 in benefits.

so I’ve never counted on receiving SS and have managed my finances accordingly.

don’t preach to me (or anyone else) until you start returning your SS checks to the US Government uncashed.

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