Aaauuggghhh!! Bogus anti-immigrant e-mail circulating around the office

[KamaAina]

in Hawai'i, no less, where 2,400 miles of ocean do what Bush** and McSatan's precious fence never will.

Alrready largely debunked at Snopes:

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

I don't even know how you feel on this issue, but please sign & forward, or just forward.


SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGES

It does not matter if you personally like or dislike Bush. You need to sign this petition and flood his e-mail box with e-mails that tell him that, even if the House passes this bill, he needs to veto it. It is already impossible to live on Social Security alone. If the government gives benefits to 'illegal' aliens who have never contributed, where does that leave those of us who have paid into Social Security all our working lives?

As stated below, 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 that social service.

Instructions are below. If you don't forward the petition and just stop it, we will lose all these names.

If you do not want to sign it, please just forward it to everyone you know.

Thank you!

To add your name, click on 'forward'. Address it to all of your email correspondents, add your name to the list and send it on.

When the petition hits 1,000, send it to [e-mail]

PETITION for President Bush:

Dear Mr President:
We, the undersigned, protest the bill that the Senate voted on recently which would allow illegal aliens to access our Social Security. We demand that you and all Congressional representatives require citizenship as a pre-requisite for social services in the United States.

We further demand that there not be any amnesty given to illegals, NO free services, no funding, no payments to and for illegal immigrants.

We are fed up with the lack of action about this matter and are tired of paying for services to illegals.

:grr: :banghead: :nuke:

[hobbit709]

1. I would link to snopes and hit "Reply All"

[KamaAina]

3. Been there, done that

just wanted to vent, basically, as well as give y'all a heads-up if it finds it way to you.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Tell whoever sent it and all receivers to get with it. This was debunked over 2 years ago.

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

[Bigmack]

4. I sent this out just yesterday about that email....

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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