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In alt.tv.the-west-wing Lawrence Glickman <Lawrence_Glickman@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:30:41 +0000 (UTC), Merlin Dorfman
> <dorfman@green.rahul.net> wrote:

>>In ca.general BTR1701 <btr1702@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>>...
>>
>>>> I've got an idea to "fix it."  STOP giving it away to people who
>>>> didn't earn it, to people who are not entitled to it.  That means all
>>>> illegal aliens.  Kick them the f*ck out of the country.  Stop throwing
>>>> money at them; it only encourages more of their kind to sneak across
>>>> the border.
>>
>>     Social Security is not "given away" to people who don't earn
>>it.  The amount of your monthly check depends on how much you have
>>contributed over the years.  (You should be getting a letter from
>>the Social Security Administration every year detailing your expected
>>monthly check based on assumptions about your future earnings and
>>FICA tax payments.)
>>     BTW employers have been known to charge illegal alien employees
>>Social Security, Unemployment, IRS withholding, and other taxes and
>>then...keep the money themselves rather than send it to the
>>government.  After all, the employees are in no position to complain.

> Sure it is.  In California, you don't even have to be a citizen of the
> USA to get all the benefits that accrue with citizenship.  You get
> free schooling, medical care, college, housing, food, money for
> clothes, drivers licenses, you name it, you get it.

     The statement was to stop giving social security to people
who don't earn it.  The fact is that SS is not given to people who
don't earn it.  
     Free drivers licenses?

> All you need to qualify for this largesse is being a felon.

     If you are not a felon you don't qualify?