When all else fails..blame the Nazis!
Nov 26, 2014 15:59:08 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 15:59:08 GMT -6
Let me start out by saying I'm about as anti-Nazi a guy as one will come across. It isn't particularly personal to me, as it is for some. Nazis were just outright evil SOB's and reading their own words in original transcripts of the Nuremberg Trials is more chilling than any horror movie. Perhaps by the lack of emotion to so much of it. Anyway.....
I think most of us can agree...Nazis are the fall back to hate on and should be a safe one for another 50-100 years or so, before anyone really says 'hey..it's been awhile since all that happened, hasn't it??'.
On the other hand...do we still need to be paying money and going through real world efforts to not only identify and root out but to punish Nazis? (I can understand Israel and others for whom this IS personal. That isn't and shouldn't be the United States Government when a buck private in the Germany Army at war's end would be 90 years old today.
The following comes from the official Congressional Record and Daily reports. I read them as I do other news sources, and they have more interesting things. Often, in fact. (On all sorts of topics, for what its worth)
This time? Absurd would be more fitting a description than interesting.
Source: US Government Printing Office - Congressional Record
This one was very short by the standards of Congressional record entries, and it is 100% public domain, so I went ahead and included the whole thing.
For future reference, this is the original page which carries those daily record entries back a good number of years.
Imagine...real money has been and is being spent on this. Not a whole lot perhaps, and not much by Washington standards...but we are far from flush and weren't trying to say otherwise until fairly recently. This is just one of many many such things. No wonder Congress "never gets anything done". Oh...THEY DO get things done. It's just silly fluff stuff that really has little or no impact vs. the effort put into doing it.
I think most of us can agree...Nazis are the fall back to hate on and should be a safe one for another 50-100 years or so, before anyone really says 'hey..it's been awhile since all that happened, hasn't it??'.
On the other hand...do we still need to be paying money and going through real world efforts to not only identify and root out but to punish Nazis? (I can understand Israel and others for whom this IS personal. That isn't and shouldn't be the United States Government when a buck private in the Germany Army at war's end would be 90 years old today.
The following comes from the official Congressional Record and Daily reports. I read them as I do other news sources, and they have more interesting things. Often, in fact. (On all sorts of topics, for what its worth)
This time? Absurd would be more fitting a description than interesting.
NO SOCIAL SECURITY FOR NAZIS ACT
(Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, as chairman of the Ways and
Means Subcommittee on Social Security, the committee of jurisdiction
over who receives Social Security benefits, I am introducing, along
with Ranking Member Becerra and now 35 original cosponsors, the No
Social Security for Nazis Act.
The world must never forget the 6 million Jews and other innocents
murdered by the Holocaust. America has worked to prevent Nazis from
entering the country and reaping the benefits of U.S. citizenship,
including Social Security. However, due to a loophole, some Nazis who
came to America continue to receive Social Security benefits. That is
just plain wrong.
Our bipartisan bill would stop benefits from going to denaturalized
Nazis. It also stops benefits from going to Nazis who renounce their
citizenship as part of a settlement.
I thank Ranking Member Becerra for working with me on this important
bill.
Mr. Speaker, I urge the House to act quickly and pass the No Social
Security for Nazis Act.
(Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, as chairman of the Ways and
Means Subcommittee on Social Security, the committee of jurisdiction
over who receives Social Security benefits, I am introducing, along
with Ranking Member Becerra and now 35 original cosponsors, the No
Social Security for Nazis Act.
The world must never forget the 6 million Jews and other innocents
murdered by the Holocaust. America has worked to prevent Nazis from
entering the country and reaping the benefits of U.S. citizenship,
including Social Security. However, due to a loophole, some Nazis who
came to America continue to receive Social Security benefits. That is
just plain wrong.
Our bipartisan bill would stop benefits from going to denaturalized
Nazis. It also stops benefits from going to Nazis who renounce their
citizenship as part of a settlement.
I thank Ranking Member Becerra for working with me on this important
bill.
Mr. Speaker, I urge the House to act quickly and pass the No Social
Security for Nazis Act.
This one was very short by the standards of Congressional record entries, and it is 100% public domain, so I went ahead and included the whole thing.
For future reference, this is the original page which carries those daily record entries back a good number of years.
Imagine...real money has been and is being spent on this. Not a whole lot perhaps, and not much by Washington standards...but we are far from flush and weren't trying to say otherwise until fairly recently. This is just one of many many such things. No wonder Congress "never gets anything done". Oh...THEY DO get things done. It's just silly fluff stuff that really has little or no impact vs. the effort put into doing it.
