Sometimes it’s difficult to understand who the people in Washington actually represent. Now is the time I wish the citizens of the US had the power of a “vote of no confidence” in Congress, like the British do with their Members of Parliament.
[1.] The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment — even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents.
“There was a felony they were committing, and now they can’t be prosecuted. That sounds like amnesty to me,” said Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican who offered the amendment yesterday to strip out those provisions of the immigration reform bill. “It just boggles the mind how people could be against this amendment.”
Should illegal immigrants, once made legal by the McCain legislation, be entitled to receive the Social Security benefits they have paid into the system while illegally using fradulent Social Security numbers stolen from actual, legal citizens of the United States of America? The fact that this was even up for debate is just beyond insane. Everyone knows we will never have enough Social Security funds to serve, you know, actual citizens.
Every single one of those senators knows that, and they debated whether we should extend such non-existent, unsustainable, budget-busting, generation-saddling benefits to millions of people who fraudulently entered the system by stealing the identities (and sometimes ruining the credit) of legal Americans.
Senator Ensign offered an amendment suggesting illegals should not be eligible for Social Security benefits accrued while illegal. The Ensign amendment was defeated on a 50-49 vote. Senator Ensign was among 44 Republicans and five Democrats who voted to block such payouts.
Here are the “Republicans” who voted to kill it; our friend Senator RINO McCain naturally is among them.
| Brownback (R-KS) | Chafee (R-RI) | DeWine (R-OH) | Stevens (R-AK) |
| Graham (R-SC) | Hagel (R-NE) | Lugar (R-IN) | Voinovich (R-OH) |
| Martinez (R-FL) | McCain (R-AZ) | Specter (R-PA) |
I am proud to say that my two Senators from Georgia, Chambliss and Isakson, voted to against this insanity.
“It makes no sense to reward millions of illegal immigrants for criminal behavior while our Social Security system is already in crisis,” said Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican. “Why in the world would we endorse this criminal activity with federal benefits? The Senate missed a big opportunity to improve this bill, and I doubt American seniors will be pleased with the result.”
“Instead of protecting the retirement security of Americans who are earning an honest living and abiding by the laws of our country, Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) sided with people who are here illegally and abuse our Social Security system,” Oakland County, Mich., Sheriff Michael Bouchard said in a press release. “Allowing illegal immigrants to use their illegal work history as credit towards receiving Social Security benefits shows that Debbie Stabenow has forgotten who she is supposed to be working for in the U.S. Senate.”
[2.] The Senate also yesterday approved an amendment to adopt English as the nation’s official language. The Senate approved the measure on a 63-34 vote. The United States currently has no official language, but in the face of a flood of new immigrants, lawmakers strongly supported the measure. A poll by Zogby International earlier this year found that 84% of Americans say English should be the official language of government operations. The same poll found that 77% of Hispanics agree. And it’s a bipartisan issue, according to the poll, which found that 92% of Republicans and 82% of Democrats approve making English the country’s official language.
Yet Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called a proposal to make English the official language “racist”. Do you realize that one third of the US Senate voted against this – primarily the Democrats? Exactly who is it that the Senate is representing?
So after voting this afternoon to condone fraudulent participation in social security, they’ve tried to throw us a bone by passing a hortatory, largely symbolic gesture towards assimilation. Nice try, but it’s not working, Senators. You’re not listening to us today, so we’re not going to listen to you in November. The INS webpage already lists English as a “general requirement” for naturalization.
And just watch some ACLU lawyer and Clinton’s ever-willing courts will overturn this in 5 minutes after it passes.
[3.] Anyone remember what Bush said on Monday: “Temporary workers must return to their home country at the conclusion of their stay”? Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, a Republican, offered an amendment that would prohibit guest-worker visas from becoming permanent. But the Senate killed it 58-35. It appears that the Senate wants amnesty against the Presidents “wishes”.
Here are the “Republicans” who voted to kill it; again with ‘Presidental candidate’ RINO McCain in the list:
| Alexander (R-TN) | Brownback (R-KS) | Chafee (R-RI) |
| Cochran (R-MS) | Coleman (R-MN) | Collins (R-ME) |
| Craig (R-ID) | DeWine (R-OH) | Hagel (R-NE) |
| Lugar (R-IN) | McCain (R-AZ) | Murkowski (R-AK) |
| Smith (R-OR) | Snowe (R-ME) | Specter (R-PA) |
| Stevens (R-AK) | Voinovich (R-OH) | Warner (R-VA) |
After all these years of supporting Republicans because of the presumed conservative nature of their beliefs I no longer feel any loyalty to them at all. Obviously many in the Senate either are clueless as to the sentiment of the voters, or just plain don’t give a rat’s behind what we think, or want from our representitives. Come November, don’t say we didn’t warn you, as you pack your sorry butts up. Many of you are treading on thin ice at best.
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