Obama Lies Again On Social Security. Illegals Will Get The Benefit Along With Earned Income Credits, Welfare, Child Tax Credit. ObamaCrapCare Will Also End Up On The Benefits List. The US Is In Decline!

How Obama’s Executive Amnesty Will Affect an Already Shaky Social Security System

•  CONSTITUTION, IDEALS, TAXES
•  EXECUTIVE AMNESTY, SOCIAL SECURITY, TAXES

President Obama’s announcement of his executive amnesty program for illegal immigrants was accompanied by a promise to the American people. He said the up to five million immigrants covered under the program would not be eligible for any government benefits. Closer examination, however, shows that amnesty will come at a cost to the American people, and Social Security may be the program hardest hit.

An article published in The New American examined the President’s claims. In his speech, Obama said:

We’re going to offer the following deal: If you’ve been in America more than five years, if you have children who are American citizens or illegal residents, if you register, pass a criminal background check and you’re willing to pay your fair share of taxes, you’ll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. You can come out of the shadows and get right with the law.

The article cites several sources. Rachel Bade, a writer for Politico, wrote:

Most experts…assume the 5 million will pay everything that a typical U.S. citizen would pay: payroll, income, sales and property taxes. But they’ll also likely get to claim the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit, although the Obama administration said they won’t get Obamacare tax credits or certain welfare benefits.

Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent for the Washington Post, wrote:

Federal law says that people who pay the [payroll] taxes and are deemed “lawfully present in the United States” can collect benefits under those programs when they become eligible. They may also receive survivor and disability benefits.

“If they pay in, they can draw,” White House spokesman Shawn Turner said by e-mail.

So while it may sound like a good thing that illegal immigrants will now be paying their “fair share” of the taxes paid by American citizens, like income taxes, payroll taxes, sales and property taxes, that means they will automatically qualify for tax benefits. Many of these immigrants will be eligible for child tax credits and the Earned Income Tax credit, and those will actually receive a subsidy rather than putting money into the system.

While they are paying their payroll taxes, the 5 million newly-minted workers will also be paying into the Social Security system. Social Security, which is the lifeline for most Americans in retirement, is already in trouble, and this move by Obama can only make things worse.

Were We Lied To By The Administration On Syria--Seymour Hersh Believes So And (Surprise, Surprise) Obama Administration Disagrees!

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December 09, 2013, 08:55 am

WH: Hersh report on Syria 'simply false'

By Justin Sink

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The Obama administration on Monday flatly denied a report from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, who reported that the Obama Administration “cherry-picked intelligence” when building its case for a military strike on Syria.

In the story, published in the London Review of Books, Hersh accuses the administration of assuming that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was responsible for a sarin gas attack outside of Damascus that killed more than 1,400 people.

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But Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the Director of National Intelligence, called Hersh’s reporting “simply false.”

"The intelligence clearly indicated that the Assad regime and only the Assad regime could have been responsible for the 21 August chemical weapons attack,” Turner said. “The suggestion that there was an effort to suppress intelligence about a nonexistent alternative explanation is simply false.”

Hersh reports that al-Nusra, a jihadi group fighting in the region, had also "mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity.”

That would contradict repeated claims by the president and other top administration officials that only the Assad regime was capable of manufacturing and deploying the chemical weapon.

To bolster his argument, Hersh points to an incident late last year in which a U.S. sensor system showed sarin production at a Syrian chemical weapons depot in December, 2012. At that time, Obama issued a warning to Syria not to deploy the weapon — something that did not occur before the August attack.

Hersh also quotes a munitions expert who raises doubts about whether, as alleged, Syrian rockets were used in the attack. The expert says the weapons used appear to be improvised and not of the Syrian arsenal, casting doubt on another central underpinning of the Obama administration’s intelligence assessment.

In August, the administration released an unclassified report that said the U.S. intelligence community assessed with “high confidence” that the Assad regime carried out the attack.

“Our high confidence assessment is the strongest position that the U.S. Intelligence Community can take short of confirmation,” the report said.

According to the administration, there were at least 12 locations where sarin gas was deployed. It said U.S. intelligence intercepted communications among Assad officials that confirmed the regime was behind the attack, and that the regime had prepared making the poison gas three days before the attack.

Ultimately, the Obama administration opted against a retaliatory strike after Russia helped broker a deal under which the Assad regime would turn over its chemical weapons to the international community. The president’s plan for a series of precision strikes against Syria had found tough opposition among international allies and the U.S. Congress.