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jpak

(41,741 posts)
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 06:12 PM Aug 2016

Here are the lies about Social Security in Donald Trump's new nationwide ad

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-social-security-trump-20160822-snap-story.html

The Trump Presidential campaign rolled out its first major television ad last week, aimed at voters in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. For Social Security experts and advocates, it wasn’t worth waiting for.

“In Hillary Clinton’s America, the system stays rigged against Americans,” the ad declares. “Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, collecting Social Security benefits, skipping the line.”

Bluntly speaking, these statements about Social Security are untrue. Here are the facts:

1. Unauthorized workers are not permitted to collect Social Security benefits.

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Here are the lies about Social Security in Donald Trump's new nationwide ad (Original Post) jpak Aug 2016 OP
Only the mouth breathers would believe this crap. lpbk2713 Aug 2016 #1
This is a common belief.....that undocumented workers collect SS benefits. Grammy23 Aug 2016 #2

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
1. Only the mouth breathers would believe this crap.
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 06:17 PM
Aug 2016



I hope the Trump campaign lost a lot of money on this stupid ad.

Grammy23

(5,807 posts)
2. This is a common belief.....that undocumented workers collect SS benefits.
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 07:54 PM
Aug 2016

It is difficult to convince them this is false. They'd rather believe there is massive fraud in Social Security, Medicaid and Food Programs.
And now Trump is pushing the myth that people can vote 5 times without being detected. He feeds the paranoia of his core followers that undocumented people are putting one over on us. Robbing us blind, in other words.

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