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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (1615)	1/19/2001 9:47:50 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

What does it matter if you marry your neighbor or a street person to save a buck? That seems a strange reason to deny it to people who really love each other and want to express that in the same way heterosexual couples do. Marriage only means what you think it means. Some heterosexual people discard their spouses like kleenex- they clearly don't think much of marriage. But we aren't going to disallow heterosexual marriage just because lots of heterosexual people treat it cavalierly. Some heterosexual people marry Americans just to get legal status here- sometimes their heterosexual partner knows, sometimes they don't. I know someone who had this happen to her- she was married by someone who just wanted to become a citizen. Do we disallow marriage between Americans and non-Americans because some people will take advantage? No. Just my opinion.

To: Lane3 who wrote (1615)	1/19/2001 11:22:14 AM
From: YlangYlangBreeze	Respond to of 82486

Or maybe I could "marry" my neighbor or best friend or some street person who is a total stranger on my death bed so that person could get survivor benefits on my pension. Why not? I don't know about your pension plan, but I think that SocSec requires three years of marriage. Some ailing men have done this with younger alien brides who will care for them until their death in return for bennies when they turn 65, provided they never remarry. And I know an old guy who is adopting his twenty one year old girlfirend's three kids. He won't last long. She's set. She will fulfill her part of the bargain and take good care of him. And the kids will be USicans. Probabaly wouldn't net positive if she had welfare available in her country, but this way it does.