Phish On! ? Bogus Social Security Scare-Mail VS this FREE Book

(if you get 'em - please don't just FWD those undocumented no-end scare mail Petitions...)

Quantum Jules Group Reply:
RE an annoying email Fw: Limit Social Security Now!!!

Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006

Whoa, now...

I doubt these kind of undocumented scare-mail claims.

I've received SSI scam chain-mails before (this or another Hoax version that is similar) and usually just Delete them. This time I did more reading, and will Volunteer some time to try to stop further waste of time and confusion.

The operative principle....

Please do not sign or forward Petitions on the Street OR the Web advocating changes of laws unless they are accompanied by reasonable details.

Scare-mail is just that. Generally these emails play on emotion, twist facts and become Hoaxes with no end date...and that can cause alot of hassle for people whose emails are included in a series of Forwarded perdition Petitions.

- a warning - these undocumented chain letters are used for Phishing. emails displayed in the TO: and CC: box get forwarded & make you more likely to recieve:

limitless, exciting Lottery news!
married women invitations
Letters and pathetic appeals from Nigeria, Liberia and elsewhere,
fake e-bay notices,
non-working Phamacy links - galore
porn, bogus stock tips,
mystery LOTTERY WINNINGS
important! repetitive Bank info - from somebody else's bank
random Order Confirmations
Viagra & penis enhancement offers, hundreds of tantalizing Jack-rabbit Vibrator appeals,
and endless Password, SSI # requests...perhaps sent from YOUR adress to thousands!

(Delete these - DO NOT RESPOND click ANY link or reply!)
dramatic chain mail often involves intentional false information -

just like the baseless rumors Bill O'Reilly and the neo-Cons routinely use
as a strategy to dumb-down and disaffect, or exploit, your Vote.

In this case it appears the origional Sender wants to tip the scales toward Republicans in the Fall elections, since they've adopted an anti-immigrant theme in so many places. Using untrue hype and half-truths, is a smarmy, wrong-headed approach.

It's a ruse - & I try to confront stinky tactics when i smells 'em...

Today someone reading that Petition (with our emails on it) just may use our names as the Sender for all sort of stuff...and you could have consequences. I've been stung before - by someone using my Yahoo address. Be sure you click on SECURE log-in buttons when signing in to mailboxes, btw.

Folks also Phish addresses to try to earn points/bonuses for Product Referrals & Rewards. Which means - ACK - we get even more uninvited mail.

by the way: A Republican, Sen Arlen Specter, introduced the Senate Social Security Act that was passed this Spring...in collaboration with GW Bush' own call for Immigration Reform.

Here's a Summary link: http://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_062206.html

In brief : (I'm not an attorney & do not give legal interpretation/advice, but will present the policy highlights) The Act adds Homeland Security requirements, equipment and an expense of: not less than $400,000,000 to implement the System; to the Social Security Administration, for an Electronic Employment Verification System.

The Act also updates VISA requirements, and uses Employers and the Social Security ID Card System to try to document Immigrants, and to try to CRACK DOWN on illegal Immigrants. It does more to impose a Identity Card rules and Monitoring than anything else, for Homeland Security. It revises clauses that affect Green Cards, Permanent Residents; and allows visiting students to work outside their field of study.
http://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_062206.html

The act...Would make it unlawful for an employer to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, or continue to employ, an alien for employment in the United States knowing, or with reckless disregard, that the alien is unauthorized to work. (some Employers, like Farmers, Restaraunts, and Temp Hire sites are concerned about the effect this Act will have on them - Criminalizing Americans who are Employers does not seem the best way to move forward)..

Past Bills allow use of Social Security Surpluses to buy down Debt!
Now that didn't sound so bad under the Clinton/Gore Administration.

But here we are in another unpopular and unwinnable Foreign Policy action series, creating massive Debt - by the Billions - that threatens our economy and future surpluses...far more than other causes. Social Security Legislation is not the only policy arena that seems to have been hijacked by Homeland Security.

While I do not agree with his concern that a real Soc Security crisis will occur in the next 15 years, the following writer presents an interesting view of how taxing immigrants can be part of the solution. That is presumably part of the motive behind the legislation passed by the US Senate last Spring...to get more of 'em on the Tax Rolls...like other workers.

http://www.zazona.com/Shameh1b/Library/Archives/SaveSS.htm

Can Immigrants Save Social Security?

enuf of that...Have a great week.

jules

PS : in happier news:
COFFEE has been upgraded by Researchers to Anti-Oxidant Status! Whoo-Hoo!

PPS:

Best way to counter immigrant scare petition is to understand it. Buy and Read Dean Bakers
book that exposes the fake crisis on Social Security.

Click the TITLE BAR above or link below -for your FREE BOOK -
also by economist - and good guy- Dean Baker...
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http://www.conservativenannystate.org/

The Conservative Nanny State
How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
by Dean Baker, published May 2006
here is a Description:
In his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives rely on a range of "nanny state" policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It's time for the rules to change. Sound economic policy should harness the market in ways that produce desirable social outcomes – decent wages, good jobs and affordable health care. Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

An autumn Full Moon is coming...and a Lunar Eclipse is too...

Have a great week!

Jules

Bush Turns back on Accountable Employees Again!

Clean water in YOUR child's glass?

Who knows. Few places in the USA are as pristine as Oregon - with our Cascading waterfalls. Yet we fight tenaciously to protect the natural areas that naturally filter Portland's water.

Now the people who feel the need to speak out to call for intervention regarding serious threats to American's drinking water and ecosystems and those who know they should report criminal situations are themselves being silenced by the Bush administration. Please click the Title Bar to read the Story.

Make no mistake - the Bush League is covering up some serious sins.

NO public employee should fear loss of career from trying to DO their Job. Voters: This better bite back to dump some Bush Insiders this November. Shall we begin with Senator Conrad Burns of Montana? Ask the Cheyene People, whose water is being poisoned at an alarming rate by Coalbed Methane extraction methods...in a very fragile watershed. Geri Small, pictured top-right, is one of the people holding the line against Coal, with dignity. Her sister is also a significant leader in that arena of resource protection. Their Brother, Gary Small is my friend, and a wonderful musician and composer....winner of a recent Native American Music Award! I am proud of them all...and I pray that with their consent, I can someday offer meaningful help.

Silencing our nations best is no way to create a legacy. Remember - with our involvement, the Rule of Law, including checks and balances of a professional Civil Service, and an independant Judiciary - can work to protect us all. We must ensure that all have a voice. Where are the moderate Republicans who can restore sanity to their Party?

Moderate Republicans: call for IMPEACHMENT !