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8. NO. ABSOLUTELY NO. We have organizations of Justice to punish crimes.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 08:22 PM

Oct 2014

It is an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS precedent to begin deciding who can and can't participate in social safety nets or receive government benefits based on things like this. In a country that is building a prison INDUSTRY and trying to eliminate social safety nets, suggesting that crimes can negate a lifetime of paying into Social Security is an extremely dangerous precedent. It is a weird thing to even be considering in this case, unless there is a motive down the road.

IMO this stinks to high heaven. Pedophiles will be next, because Americans can get behind stripping their retirement, too. Then murderers. Then people who have been convicted of domestic violence... Any felony, then only the really bad misdemeanors...

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White House: Nazis shouldn't get Social Security (UPDATE) [View all] Omaha Steve Oct 2014 OP

Is dick cheney collecting social security? tularetom Oct 2014 #1

Possibly jmowreader Oct 2014 #2

I had a filthy rich employer who did take his SS and used it to pay Cleita Oct 2014 #5

I don't see anything wrong with that. Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #11

It wasn't full pay. The housekeeper was an undocumented woman Cleita Oct 2014 #12

To be honest, even if I won the lottery I would still claim the Social Security that I have earned. Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #17

Exactly !!! SamKnause Oct 2014 #19

I think's that something we can all get onboard with tabasco Oct 2014 #3

I dunno. This seems like a slippery slope. Cleita Oct 2014 #4

Yes, This would start the exclusion of anybody for whatever reason gerogie2 Oct 2014 #6

That is still the law, if you are in a "Public Institution" you get no Social Security. happyslug Oct 2014 #21

Thank you. woo me with science Oct 2014 #9

Agreed Recursion Oct 2014 #16

The other thing I noticed is they used the social security benefits as a carrot to get them to leave davidpdx Oct 2014 #18

Survivors who came to the US and worked and paid into SS gets SS happyslug Oct 2014 #20

Nazi family members survivors shouldn't either. Historic NY Oct 2014 #7

NO. ABSOLUTELY NO. We have organizations of Justice to punish crimes. woo me with science Oct 2014 #8

Yes, punishing mass murderers is a slippery slope to punishing the lowly 3-victim axe murderers Ykcutnek Oct 2014 #13

And there's the crude appeal to emotion. woo me with science Oct 2014 #14

did they work in this country and pay into it? notadmblnd Oct 2014 #10

Never one to duck controversy. rug Oct 2014 #15

USA took in how many nazis? 10k? 20k? no SS for SS & deport them if any are still here. Sunlei Oct 2014 #22