Social Security, Immigration and a Stupid RW email

[a la izquierda]

This is an email that I received from my sister in law yesterday. She'll occasionally send this sort of stuff my way, I guess forgetting that I don't want to read any of their right wing nonsense. Particularly amusing about the whole thing is that she is Mexican, and I study Mexican history and have a deep respect for its people and the problems they face. Anyway, I thought some of you would like to take a look at it and have a laugh.

EDIT: I did not post people's names that had e-signed the petition. But there were more than 500

Subject:
>> SSI Please read
>>
>> My mom was a homemaker and dad worked all his life and paid into
>> SS,
>> dad has passed away and now my mom can barely make ends meet. While the
>> possible illegal" alien in front of her at the grocery store buys the name
>> brands, my mom goes for the generic brands, and day old breads. She
>> doesn't
>> have out of state calling on her phone, because she can't afford it and
>> shops at the thrift shops and dollar stores while the "illegal" aliens go
>> to
>> Macy's, Gap, J.C. Penny, Banana Republic, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> She considers having a pizza delivered once a week "eating out". She
>> grew up during the depression, watched her husband go overseas to fight in
>> WW II a year after their marriage, and
>> then they went on to raise, feed and cloth 5 children, scrounging
>> to
>> pay tuition for parochial schools.
>>
>> I'm sorry, but I can't see how the Senate can justify this slap in
>> the face to born and bred, or naturalized citizens. It is already
>> impossible
>> to live on Social Security alone. If they give benefits to "illegal"
>> aliens
>> who have never contributed, where does that leave us that have paid into
>> Social Security all our working lives?
>>
>> The Senate voted this week to allow "illegal" aliens access to
>> Social Security benefits. Attached is an opportunity to sign a petition
>> that
>> requires citizenship for eligibility to receive Social services. If you do
>> not wish to sign the petition yourself, please forward on to anyone you
>> think might be interested.
>>
>> PETITION FOR: President Bush
>>
>>
>> Mr. President:
>>
>>
>> The petition below is a protest against the recent vote of the
>> senate which was to allow illegal aliens access to our social security! We
>> demand that you and all congressional representatives require citizenship
>> for anyone to be eligible for social services in the United States
>>

[babylonsister]

1. Checked snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/petition.asp

They're not impressed either.

[hobbit709]

2. I've gotten this POS several times

I hit "Reply all" and state that if you paid into social security you should be entitled to get the money-illegal alien status or not. This bill doesn't give money to people that haven't paid into it, but one more case of an iota of truth turned into a big pile of bovine metabolic byproducts by the RW.

[Lasher]

3. Dupe

babylonsister beat me to it.

[baldguy]

4. Social Security isn't an entitlement program, it's an insurance program.