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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (218118)2/8/2005 7:12:13 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (2) of 1572354
 
Did I tell you, tenchusatsu, that my father and grandparents were immigrants? My grandfather had been here for 10 years and then he died. He didn't work but a couple of those years. My grandmother then started receiving social security, since she had become a citizen. She received social security for 20 years, far far in excess of anything my grandfather had paid in.

That's not all. My father has many clients who are immigrants. Many of these clients are in similar situations where abuse of social security is rampant, but perfectly within the legal bounds of today's system.

Now all this is anecdotal, but it seems to be to be horribly pervasive among the immigrant population. I just think that any system that does not tag all contributions to the contributor's own account, is utterly doomed to abuse and ultimate failure. Social security as it stands now is a ripoff on all American citizens who spend a lifetime paying into it.
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