Fellow Isaac Brocker, Blaze has heard the following:
To help save the economy, the U.S. Government will announce next month that the Immigration Department will start deporting seniors instead of illegal’s in order to lower Social Security and Medicare costs.
Older people are easier to catch and will not remember how to get back home.
She noted that the US is kicking out all the Grandmas on the bus so they can seize their life savings because they didn’t know they had to file FBARs before they were deported.
Ah ha, that explains the recent up-tick in recruitment for “Raging Grannies.”
@calgary411- Last month I happened to be watching Brian William’s show, Rock Center, where one of the segments was on an elderly Polish woman who was no longer capable of living on her own and was staying in a hospital.
The hosptial couldn’t afford to take care of her anymore so they went to the court and successfully applied to have her moved back to Poland, where they had found a hospital that was willing to take her.
So is this something that they’re planning to do, or something that they’ve already implemented? It’s actually a pretty good idea. If you have budget deficit there are two ways to deal with it: (1) New revenue — i.e., go after expats; (2) reduce costs — i.e., deport grandma. The two are similar in that neither can really defend themselves much.
@recalcitrant, thanks for your comment.
I remember reading that, and now this post is more relevant!
I’ve given my Atlanta sister instructions to get on the Calgary bus.
one flaw, you can still collect SS out of the country as long as you’ve paid enough into it.
@ Calgary, at least the grannies are being put in the bus instead of being thrown under it.
@all, I love it!! I see myself at the back of the bus
This is a hoax, right?
@saddened, do like Rosa, and refuse!
The US doesn’t reallise that its high cost medical system does “export” some retirees back to their home countries. On my travels in Europe I’ve run into foreign born Americans who have return to their home country because of the cost of the American health care system even though they’re can get Medicare etc.
It seems to me the US is happy to allow that group of people to leave, saving the US money, and then on the other hand they want to tax them. It doesn’t make sense.
@Christophe, Yes it is a Hoax
This seems a lot like the programs the British put in place to send convicts abroad, and those in debtors prisons, and at one time contemplated (I don’t remember what came of it?) sending ‘surplus’ gently born but impoverished women (Victorian era?) abroad because they felt that there was a surplus of unmarriageables that would ‘destabilize’ English society. Maybe if we could convince the US that we are undesirables, they would let us expatriate permanently at no cost?
@john- of course it doesn’t make sense. None of it makes sense. The U.S. tax system defies common sense on any kind of level. It is an ill conceived system of expropriation that the put together as they go along.
The one guiding princple that exists is: what can I do that will get me votes? There is no rationality or justice only extortion.
Save moiney on Medicare, yes. But not on Social Security. Social Security pensions are payable regardless of where the retiree lives and independent of their citizenship. Medicare benefits are only available within the US.
Medicare does not work outside the USA
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@rogerconklin- it seems like a reasonable way for the U.S. to save itself some money. S.S. is a quantifiable fixed liability whose costs can for predicted and controlled more easily than can the costs of Medicare.
Well Blaze certainly came out flaming and blaming with this one. Then she used her infamous sword to tickle our funny bones. Loved it! 🙂 Trouble is, there is so much insanity associated with the US gov’t these days one could almost believe this to be true. 🙁
they don’t do it to grandpas ? So I am okay ?
@ij,
Look closely at the picture — I think I see some grandpas in there too. Be on guard.
You don’t want to be a senior citizen in the USA with an outstanding student loan. Take a look at this …
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30805
Anyone in the mood for a rally? I’m cross blogging this from where it doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of attention:
http://isaacbrocksociety.com/2012/05/10/going-beyond-blogging/
@All
I think then it’s time for the elderly to STIKE BACK!!!! 🙂
Well, what is next ?
I better be carefull if I cross the border again. They just might request my canadian paid artificial hip, knees and what other metal I have in me ?
Greenwood: You don’t have any gold fillings in your teeth, do you?