Social Security Changes (bullshit)
So last night I get this e-mail:
> > SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGES > > > > It does not matter if you personally like or dislike Obama. You > > need to sign this petition and flood his e-mail box with e-mails > > that tell him that, even if the House passes this bill, he needs to > > veto it. It is already impossible to live on Social Security alone. > > If the government gives benefits to 'illegal' aliens who have never > > contributed, where does that leave those of us who have paid into > > Social Security all our working lives? > > > > As stated below, the Senate voted this week to allow 'illegal' > > aliens access to Social Security benefits. > > Attached is an opportunity to sign a petition that requires > > citizenship for eligibility to that social service. > > Instructions are below. If you don't forward the petition and just > > stop it, we will lose all these names. > > > > If you do not want to sign it, please just forward it to everyone > > you know. > > > > Thank you! > > > > To add your name, click on 'forward'. Address it to all of your > > email correspondents, add your name to the list and end it on. > > > > When the petition hits 1,000, send it to comment@whitehouse.gov > > > > PETITION for President Obama: > > > > Dear Mr. President: > > We, the undersigned, protest the bill that the Senate voted on > > recently which would allow illegal aliens to access ur Social > > Security. We demand that you and all Congressional representatives > > require citizenship as a pre-requisite for social services in the > > United States . > > > > We further demand that there not be any amnesty give n to illegal > > aliens, NO free services, no funding, no payments to and for illegal > > immigrants
E-mail petitions always crack me the fuck up. Who the hell do they think they are petitioning to hm? Who gets the petition once all 1,000 “signatures” have been collected? I understand that to a lot of people, the internet is some big magical thing and these questions need not be asked, but to those of us who know how the damn thing works, how can this not be annoying as all hell? Maybe they’re smarter than I give them credit; maybe they are depending on the NSA to track this and forward it to the president as soon as the required amount of signatures have been collected… but I digress.
Apparently (and, as always) nobody checks their facts. A quick search on snopes.com gives us all the information that we need to know about this. Another thing that always fascinates me about these is their ability to change over time. For example, the original e-mail mentioned President Bush, rather than President Obama (which is funny, seeing as how I never got that one… I wonder why). I wrote a response, but not before harvesting ALL of the e-mail addresses from the message body, to, and cc fields (with the help of sed and grep of course) so I could send my [intentionally provocative] response to every last one of ‘em. I know that I’m fighting an uphill battle, but at least I’m fighting
My response:
So, does everyone believe everything that hits their inbox nowadays? http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/petition.asp DISCLAIMER: I'm about to say some offensive s**t so if you are easily offended, stop reading. ### I mean it. If you read any further, don't reply to me all hurt expecting an apology; your words will fall on deaf ears. ### Last chance. ### Ok, I get it... hating the president is cool now that we have a black guy in office, fine, but seriously people... where the f**k was all this outrage when Bush was raping our constitution, involving us in illegal, unnecessary wars based on lies (Iraq), draining the economy whilst giving enormous kickbacks to his friends (the very people who put his dumb a$$ in office to being with), and spying on each and every one of us under the guise of "national security", huh? where? Nowhere. Don't try to act like you actually care now because it's painfully clear that you're being disingenuous. If you forwarded this to your friends, family, whatever, without first checking your facts then you're an idiot. If you SIGNED YOUR NAME to it without ever even questioning it's authenticity, then you're a bigger idiot. One might argue that it's people like you who are to blame for our current situation---Yes, you. You who bent over and took it straight up the cornhole because "9/11 changed everything" ... you who let your government run wild directly afterwards while you sat by in silent agreement (just as long as we were killing Muslims) ... and you, who probably still do not have a single f**king clue about the damage to our country that the past ~8 years has wrought. Every last one of you should be terribly ashamed of yourselves. Terrorists aren't destroying this country; blind obedience, complacency, anti-intellectualism, and laziness are. Do you really think that... even if the bill mentioned in this e-mail was real, that signing your name to an e-mail and forwarding it to other people actually constitutes some sort of political action? Thomas Paine must be rolling in his grave.
I know that the majority will probably just delete this reply… sadly, they’re most likely the ones who really need to be reading it. Also, there were actually about ten lines above and below each ‘###’ but wordpress ate those. I know that this won’t make a difference though; hell, just a few minutes ago I got a reply (to my reply) stating: “i dont know. i just forward them. i did hear something about that recently on the news.” … two things, (1) No the hell you didn’t. (2) Thanks for proving my point.
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