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07-27-2009, 06:49 AM #1
Amnesty not a solution
Amnesty not a solution
POINT OF VIEW: Social Security, Medicare funding woes
BY MARIA FOTOPOULOS
Published: July 27, 2009
Immigration — legal and illegal — works against repairing Social Security and Medicare.
Following the playbook of Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, proponents of amnesty for illegal aliens are not letting any serious crisis go to waste.
Medicare and Social Security trustees recently announced the trust funds will be insolvent sooner than previously reported — by 2017 and 2037, respectively. In response, several proponents for illegal alien amnesty began beating the drum that amnesty was the solution for insolvency. In fact, amnesty would ultimately compound the problems.
Social Security and Medicare are structured like giant Ponzi schemes where today’s workers support today’s retirees.
In 1950, there were 16 workers paying taxes into the Social Security and Medicare systems for every retiree; in 2005, there were only three workers for every retiree. Instead of correcting the pyramid scheme nature of these programs, advocates of illegal immigrants as a cure are hoping we will just "kick the canâ€Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at http://eepurl.com/cktGTn
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