Reply #4: I sent this out just yesterday about that email....

[Bigmack]

to a friend who passed it to me for comment. I didn't just hit Reply All... I moved all the email addresses into the CC area. Sometimes the damned thing has been forwarded so many times that Reply All would just hit the last group that received it.

I always try to use the word LIE, since this shit is made up and already disproved.
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Jim... where do you get this crap? If somebody sends you LIES, they certainly can't be friends.

The piece with the petition about Social Security benefits going to illegals is not just incorrect... it is a LIE!

First of all, the vote on this measure wasn't last week.. it was in May of 2006. It wasn't about Illegal aliens getting benefits, it was an amendment to a bill that would give SS benefits to a tiny group of formerly illegal workers who had become legal under the law. Since they had already paid in, this seemed fair. THE AMENDMENT WAS VOTED DOWN!!! IT DID NOT PASS!

IT IS TRUE ... AND ALWAYS WAS TRUE... THAT ILLEGAL ALIENS, WHILE THEY PAY INTO SOC SEC, CANNOT GET SocSec BENEFITS!! (SocSec contributions by illegals make up 10% of the SocSec surplus.... about $300 Billion in the last 20 years.)

The person who sent this out originally was either brain dead or knew they were sending out a lie. And anybody who sends this shit on without fact checking is guilty of passing on a lie. It took me about 20 seconds to find this stuff out on snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/socialsecuri...

Another site that explains the situation.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?si...
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