Mel Martinez continues to spiral out of control...
SENATE KILLS ENSIGN AMENDMENT
Tim Chapman reported last week:
To qualify for full Social Security benefits, a worker must register 10 years of work. Under current law, illegal immigrants who obtain legal status can use their previous illegal work history to apply for Social Security benefits.
A compromise immigration bill pending right now in the U.S. Senate (sponsored by Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Mel Martinez (R-FL)) comes at a time when our nation is facing an enormous crisis on the entitlements front. A recent report moved the year in which Social Security will go broke from 2041 to 2040. Congress cannot afford to keep the promise of Social Security to its own citizens, let alone illegal workers.
To remedy the situation, Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) has offered an amendment to the pending Senate immigration bill that would reverse this law to ensure that law-breakers are not rewarded for their past work at the expense of immigrants who have waited in line and American citizens.
Mary Katherine Ham can't believe it:
But here's the substance of the debate-- 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 FRAUDULENT Social Security numbers STOLEN from actual, legal citizens of the United States of America.
The fact that this is 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're debating 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?!?
Sen. Ensign, God bless him, offered an amendment suggesting illegals should not be eligible for Social Security benefits accrued while illegal.
The U.S. Senate voted to kill that amendment, 50-49.
Mel Martinez-YEA Bill Nelson-NAY
posted by Pat Campbell @ 9:19 AM
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Mel Martinez is the perfect example of why someone not US born should not be allowed to become President. The law should apply to any elected office including the House and Senate.
Mel's biography states that he was a Democrat in the 1980's. What do you expect from a Republican that used to be a Democrat? A sheep in wolves clothing? Maybe Bill Nelson used to be a Republican and after losing oxygen in outerspace as an asstronut, he decided to become a Democrat.... Sprechen sie English Herr Campbell? Vas ist up ist down...
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Pat Campbell is "fit to be tied" regarding Mel Martinez. I'm more than furious at Mel -- I've emailed and faxed Mel at least fifty times since the illegal alien situation took off.
His replies (which are few) are full of vagueness, doublespeak, and lack the clarity of answers Newt Gingrich can give. To be clear, Mel is a colossal disappointment and we'll be better off if he announces tomorrow he'going to register as a Democrat.
Please, please, please, Pat: Pester Mel for an interview and squeeze him for clear answers on why he votes like he does. His positions on illegal immigration and it's relationship to applying for U. S. citizenship are shameful.
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