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Illegal immigrants may add to the problem of spending but that issue is minuscule compared to the real drivers of our coming economic doom; baby boomers. Thanks to the welfare programs of social security and medicare we are on an unsuitable path. 50 years ago there were 5 workers supporting (through social security) each retiree. In another 20 years there will only be 2 workers for each social security retiree. Each day there are 10,000 baby boomers choosing retirement. It will total 77 million. Social Security will go bankrupt in about 20 years unless there are drastic changes to the program. And Social Security is a minor problem compared to Medicare. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) each Medicare receiving couple has paid about $140,000 into the Medicare system during their working lives. They will receive over $400,000 in benefits. Take the difference times 77 million and you get the idea.
If there was a simple choice between funding welfare (of all kinds) for illegal immigrants and funding baby boomers in retirement I'd take the immigrants. It will do much less damage to our economy.
So it's all about dollars and cents to you? You would fund illegal foreigners but not our own citizens? Unbelievable!
AmeriKKKa cannot go bankrupt, we print/create out own FIAT-CURRENCY.
The Fedgov can put 20 Trillion dollars into their or someone else's electronic accounts in the blink of an eye.
True-
Thus the initiative of the BRICS to create another fiat currency and forming thier own version of the IMF. I doubt that the rest of the world will let the US go on its money printing party forever.
Illegal immigrants may add to the problem of spending but that issue is minuscule compared to the real drivers of our coming economic doom; baby boomers. Thanks to the welfare programs of social security and medicare we are on an unsuitable path. 50 years ago there were 5 workers supporting (through social security) each retiree. In another 20 years there will only be 2 workers for each social security retiree. Each day there are 10,000 baby boomers choosing retirement. It will total 77 million. Social Security will go bankrupt in about 20 years unless there are drastic changes to the program. And Social Security is a minor problem compared to Medicare. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) each Medicare receiving couple has paid about $140,000 into the Medicare system during their working lives. They will receive over $400,000 in benefits. Take the difference times 77 million and you get the idea.
If there was a simple choice between funding welfare (of all kinds) for illegal immigrants and funding baby boomers in retirement I'd take the immigrants. It will do much less damage to our economy.
Ummm... the baby boomers at least have paid into the system. The illegals have not.
If the US was a household with $30K income, roughly speaking:
$35,000 yearly expenses.
$170,000 on the credit card AND growing.
$1,000,000 unpaid mortgage AND growing.
But we aren't a household. We are a country.
But just to play along -- that 'household' is sitting on enormous gold reserves, oil reserves, tons of goods and services, and has the full-faith-and-credit of the world's largest banks.
But according to the GOP and others, the head of the household should refuse all raises and even go to their boss and say 'I can't make my bills...how about a pay cut?' Because every time the Right whines about taxes and cuts revenue, that's what they are doing.
Thus the initiative of the BRICS to create another fiat currency and forming thier own version of the IMF. I doubt that the rest of the world will let the US go on its money printing party forever.
It seems the left always forgets this point and is blind that the rest of the world is taking action and will topple USD as the reserve currency.
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscrip.../ldt....0.HTML
7. The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes committed by Illegal Aliens In The United States.
Verify at: http: // Drdsk.com
Are we THAT Stupid?
Yes, we are that stupid. And this will continue until we have a situation completely out of our control that we can't pay the bill for. Then there will be rioting.
When you start with a fallacy, there's no place to go.
Lol 17 trillion debt with no way to pay it off . How much debt do we need before we are bankrupt
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