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more on illegal immigrants and troop levels
A few interesting articles and notes in today's WSJ.
Following a thread from a few weeks ago on how best to license/regulate etc.... illegal immigrants, the WSJ notes that there is something like 370 billion in social security funds that are not matched up properly with social security numbers. Largely due to illegal immigrants submitting false social security numbers to employers.
While I was arguing that the illegals aren't entitled to general governmental "benefits" like welfare (again, generally), I guess I'd draw the line differently with something like social security, inasmuch as its something that is tied directly to their individual work and pay.
Anyway, the article was written to highlight that the SSA sends letters out every year to employers who have been submitting funds for faulty SS numbers. Well, not so much to highlight the letters as to highlight the fact that employers typically respond by terminating the employees. Anyone think that's efficient?
On another note, Barry McAffrey notes that Rumsfeld is in denial about troop levels... particularly in view of the reservist call-ups for next year.
It was hard to interpret what he meant in one of his paragraphs, but I think he was calling for increasing the size of both the active duty and the reserve components of at least the army.
That is all.
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