Fox News: Keep Out Freeloading Illegals by Gutting Welfare....really

[AnnInLa]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/29/fox-freeloading-illegals/

[LSK]

1. i didnt know they got any welfare....

:popcorn:

[Hobarticus]

3. Don't you have to have a SS number to get aid? n/t

[LSK]

5. yes, and it helps to receive social security too...

[Poppyseedman]

15. SS numbers are sold on the open market in every major city

Very easy to obtain.

The biggest problem is these people pay into the SS and tax system via payroll, yet cannot file a return to get money back.

Their SS 's don't match up with SS records. "Not on file"

[LSK]

4. oh and FOX, whats spent on Iraq vs whats spent on Welfare

Go ahead FOX, PUBLISH THAT!!!! I DARE YOU!!!!!

[AnnInLa]

6. More

The Fox News headline ignores the realities of immigration. Undocumented immmigrants pay $1.5 billion in Medicaid taxes each year, along with another $7 billion in Social Security taxes.

Additionally, according to a recent Pew Hispanic Center study, immigrants do not come to this country because they are unemployed and want to “freeload” off the U.S. economy. Most are gainfully employed before coming here, and immigrate to rejoin families, to improve working conditions, and to earn higher wages.

(click thru's at the www.thinkprogress.com link in the OP)

[Warpy]

7. They don't, and welfare was gutted in the mid 90s when

Clinton signed that draconian GOP bill.

Pox News just hates women.

Somebody needs to tell them that every cut in welfare results in more ABORTIONS.

[Wickerman]

2. Nice try, Faux - Welfare IS gutted. n/t

[FormerDittoHead]

8. What? Didn't you know more is spent on welfare than the military?

:sarcasm:

or at least that's what they'd want you to think...

[LSK]

12. shhhh, we cant let the sheeple know that

I mean if they found out that we spend like 100 times more on military......

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Sure, if you stop giving the natives a quality life then of course

immegration whether legal or illegal will drop. :eyes:

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Gutting WHAT "Welfare"?

The only welfare that's left is the kind that goes to corporate cronies, the DEA, and the Military-Industrial complex.

[Initech]

11. Is Neil Cavuto trying to make the GOP less respectable than they are?

Because if he is, he certainly is doing a damn good job of it!

[muntrv]

13. Yeah Faux News,

they're freeloaders, if that's what you call dishwashers, tomato pickers, and landscapers who get paid in cash. Tell me, how do you get welfare if you don't register with the government? And they don't pay welfare in dollar bills.

[sendero]

14. Keep out illegals..

... by having serious consequences for hiring them and enforcing the law.

[allalone]

16. I'm confused

are the "illegals" taking our jobs or are they sponging? Can't have it both ways.

[cantstandbush]

17. FOX is saying that this would kill off two birds with one stone.

The "freeloading American welfare queens" and the illegal immigrants. They have no shame.

[nonconformist]

18. I suspected they'd go in this direction

Feared it, actually. I'm not surprised in the least.

Frankly, it's one of many reasons I'm against illegal immigration - it gives these fatcats a "case" to destroy welfare and assistance.

[rucky]

19. That'll teach all those Cadillac-driving lettuce-pickers! n/t