Got To Save Us From “The Brown Horde”
The Associated Press reports on the unintended consequences of the anti-immigration provision of the “economic stimulus package” in ‘I’ve done exactly what I was supposed to do’
SAN FRANCISCO – When Maulit Shelat heard about the Bush administration’s plan to pump up the economy by sending out stimulus checks, he sat down with his wife and drew up a list of priorities: first up, remodeling the bathroom.
But Shelat is married to a foreigner who still hasn’t completed the often years-long process that allows her to apply for a Social Security number. Her not having that number makes even him ineligible for the tax rebate checks that started going out last week because they filed jointly.
This problem also affects military personnel with foreign wives, which means that the troops fighting for the “American way” on their fourth tour in Iraq won’t get a rebate check because they married a German. Yet another brilliant move by Congress in their War On Sanity™.
