According to this report, the Obama administration suspended the mechanism whereby employers are notified that the Social Security numbers used by their employees don’t match the employees’ names. This sensible cross-checking had been used to catch both fraud and clerical errors, and had prevented millions of citizens from losing Social Security benefits they were entitled to.
Why did they do this? Because they worried that it might discourage illegal aliens from registering for DACA if they had used fraudulent SSNs. They worried also, with good reason, that Americans might object to suspending this protocol. So they kept it quiet. For four years.
When I read stories like this, my mind wanders toward comforting images.
Torches. Pitchforks. Lamp-posts.
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Torches. Pitchforks. Lamp-posts…and lots of well oiled rope.
Intemperate imagery, I realize, especially coming from one as fond of public order as I am.
But: deliberate suspension of basic government safeguards against Social Security fraud, in order to promote the distribution of benefits to illegal aliens?
I am only human, after all, and this is an outrageous betrayal of the public trust. As Mencken said:
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
This was a first. Not last unfortunately
http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com/2009/03/david-lynn-jones-real-one.html
Helicopters…
Not “well-oiled rope.” I call for the most extra-scratchy, stiff, and uncomfortable rope we can find.