Social Security Privatization Poison Pill
Here we go again with President Bush's biggest blind spot.
"Mexico and [the United States] agreed to introduce similar legislative initiatives whereby Mexican workers who paid into Social Security in the United States will be refunded their contributions when they return to their homeland, President Vicente Fox said here Monday.
"'The initiatives entail the recognition of all those (Mexicans) who have worked in the United States legally or otherwise, so they will have the right to the savings they accumulated while working in the neighboring country,' said Fox, who is visiting Ecuador."
Worked here illegally is what he neglected to mention.
Given the no-holds-barred, knock-down/drag-out, Katie-bar-the-door, Pier-6 brawl battle royal that enacted Social Security private accounts is going to be as it is, why on Earth is the President pissing in this roiling punch bowl with a flat-out give-away to millions of aliens who aren't even supposed to be here?
It really makes one wonder - especially when one sees stories like this one:
"More than any other leader of either political party, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton has been focusing on immigration reform and border security - taking hard-line positions that appeal to frustrated Republicans in a move that could guarantee her enough support in red states to win the White House in 2008."
Her hubby got elected in 1992 by getting to Pappy Bush's right on several core issues, peeling off a significant portion of the Republican base in the process. #1 son may have gotten a nominally greater percentage of the Hispanic vote this time via pandering such as that referenced above, but he's laying the ground-work for his would-be GOP successor to get waylaid by Whorellary in four years.
"Mexico and [the United States] agreed to introduce similar legislative initiatives whereby Mexican workers who paid into Social Security in the United States will be refunded their contributions when they return to their homeland, President Vicente Fox said here Monday.
"'The initiatives entail the recognition of all those (Mexicans) who have worked in the United States legally or otherwise, so they will have the right to the savings they accumulated while working in the neighboring country,' said Fox, who is visiting Ecuador."
Worked here illegally is what he neglected to mention.
Given the no-holds-barred, knock-down/drag-out, Katie-bar-the-door, Pier-6 brawl battle royal that enacted Social Security private accounts is going to be as it is, why on Earth is the President pissing in this roiling punch bowl with a flat-out give-away to millions of aliens who aren't even supposed to be here?
It really makes one wonder - especially when one sees stories like this one:
"More than any other leader of either political party, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton has been focusing on immigration reform and border security - taking hard-line positions that appeal to frustrated Republicans in a move that could guarantee her enough support in red states to win the White House in 2008."
Her hubby got elected in 1992 by getting to Pappy Bush's right on several core issues, peeling off a significant portion of the Republican base in the process. #1 son may have gotten a nominally greater percentage of the Hispanic vote this time via pandering such as that referenced above, but he's laying the ground-work for his would-be GOP successor to get waylaid by Whorellary in four years.
posted by JASmius at 4:03 PM
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