Thread: MORE BS

Legal immigrants seen boosting Social Security



BY ALEXIS GRANT : The Herald-Sun Washington bureau
Feb 17, 2005 : 8:33 pm ET

WASHINGTON -- As lawmakers squabble over the future of Social Security, they may want to consider yet another factor: immigration.

Over the next 75 years, new legal immigrants will pay $611 billion into Social Security, according to a report issued this week by the National Foundation for American Policy, a nonpartisan think tank. That would help pump up the retirement system that President Bush says must change or will go bankrupt within the next four decades.

"Increased immigration is helpful to the Social Security system and would make any reforms easier to achieve," said Stuart Anderson, executive director of the organization and author of the report, which is the first of its kind.

According to the study, which used Social Security Administration data, a moratorium on legal immigrants would worsen the Social Security system's deficit by one-third in the next 50 years. Reducing legal immigration by one-third would deepen the expected deficit by 10 percent; conversely, if immigration increased by one-third, it would alleviate the deficit by 10 percent.

The report shows that immigrants are contributing to the well-being of Americans, said Andrea Bazan-Manson, executive director of El Pueblo Inc., a Raleigh-based Latino advocacy group. Latinos make up about 8 percent of the Durham population, according to the 2000 census.

"The reality is we are going to need to continue to depend on the working population, which is made up of a significant number of immigrants," she said. "People, as we speak, are benefiting through Social Security from the work of an undocumented worker."

Many of the 800,000 legal immigrants who come to the United States each year are young, and consequently pay into the Social Security system for decades before reaping any benefits, the study found. Workers' Social Security payroll taxes underwrite the monthly benefits received by retirees.

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Highlighted in Red is the BS.

Social Security is in the biggest mess it's ever been in during the largest most massive influx of illegal and legal immigrants in US History. More immigration of any kind is not in the national interest of the American People and does not benefit the United States.

Another biased article so Herald Sun News can advertise on the El Pueblo Website.

Somewhere we have something that puts this puppy to rest. Just read it over the past 2 days but...........where is it??

Didn't realize that under-the-table jobs took SS out of the cash-directly-to-hand payments.Do they take out FICA too?

If you could find one "employer" who's paying "under the table" and has TAKEN OUT FOR SS...........please let us know!! Wouldn't one have to have a VALID SS #?

This person I'd like to meet.........

To All:

The article is BS. The "study" is a biased fabrication. The article is clearly ambiguous with one person talking about legal immigrants and the other talking about illegals and worse, neither of them knowing what they're talking about to begin with.

Even the conspirators of the media blitz and the advocates can't keep their stories straight.

That's the problem with fabrications at both ends.

Back home in the Show Me State....we'd say we caught them lying from top to bottom!!

What has happened to our country?If people would put forth the effort to end homlessness,hunger,and general poverty that they do to protect illegal aliens,we have bliss.But just look at the brightside-at least you don't live in Ca.
Gay marriage is more important here than missing children or the growing number of homeless,if you are murdered and your family wears something that portrays a picture of you they'll throw out a conviction,if a molested child age 6 is too traumatized to show up and face the fiend in court-they'll throw out the conviction,you CAN be bombed on marijuana and drive legally,and sex with a corpse has only been outlawed in the last 4 months.

Rick wrote

and sex with a corpse has only been outlawed in the last 4 months.

OK, Rick!! You got me............Ca beats NJ

Originally Posted by 2ndamendsis

Rick wrote

and sex with a corpse has only been outlawed in the last 4 months.

OK, Rick!! You got me............Ca beats NJ

I'm serious!!!!The only reason it's illegal is because not too long ago (right here in San Francisco-no surprise huh) paramedics found a guy engaged in sexual activity with the corpse of an elderly women and they had to let him go after a couple of days-because it wasn't illegal.

And yet illegals are still dying (literally) to come here.