So George W. Bush is making a deal with Mexico for Social Security. Even if Mexican migrants don't work in the U.S. long enough to qualify, they will now have their working time in Mexico added into our system so they can draw retirement benefits from the U.S. Social Security system.

So what? We've been giving Social Security benefits to foreigners who worked in the U.S. for years without becoming citizens, many returning to their homelands at retirement and still getting their earned benefits. The only difference here is that we would allow the inclusion of any money they might make in their homeland which, in the case of Mexico, certainly can't amount to much.

Does it really matter whether they are legal or illegal migrants? Our borders are practically wide open anyway and anyone who works and pays payroll taxes in our country ought to qualify for something.

What's the difference if our government now chooses to take this money that our own Social Security system doesn't need and blows it on the Mexicans? Retired and disabled Americans will still get their monthly checks with plenty left over.

Despite all the talk about "disappearing surpluses," Social Security taxes produced an $89 billion surplus last year. The year before that it was $98.7 billion and two years ago it was $94.5 billion so I guess you could say that some of it is "disappearing" because of high unemployment in a sour economy, but it's certainly not the way politicians make it seem, is it?

Why are people like Ron Paul suddenly so upset? They don't complain when the Beltway Bandits steal this money as "off budget" revenue to be blown on special interests or wherever lobbyists pressure them to spend it.

Why complain now? And why deny the Mexicans? They've been coming here legally and illegally to do the dirty jobs American workers won't touch anyway. Who do you think picks your cotton and your fruit or cleans up after you? When Americans were spending millions on flowers and floats for the Rose Bowl parade, who do you think was arranging the flowers and picking up the trash afterwards? You didn't see any opulent floats or parading bands from Mexico did you? Are we suddenly worried about jalapeno weapons of mass destruction?

George Bush and the federal government certainly don't need the extra payroll taxes American workers hand over so willingly. The federal government has an unlimited supply of money any time it wants. If we were truly generous, the government would be using this horn-of-plenty credit card for world retirement plans.

In the last fifteen months, the Bush administration has plunged American taxpayers $600 billion into new debt—$598.3 billion to be exact. We had a true national deficit of $421 billion last year, fiscal 2002 that ended at the end of last September. And so far this year, in the first quarter or first three months of fiscal 2003, we've added another $177.5 billion in new debt.

So far this year, we have already topped the false $159 billion deficit figure that the federal government's crooked Enron style bookkeeping shows for all of fiscal 2002.

The Bush administration can and is already borrowing us into oblivion. They can support simultaneous wars this way. They can cover whatever shortfall Social Security might have in the future. This unique credit card is already covering shortfalls in unemployment benefits or are you naïve enough to believe that the government is really taking cash from its assets in the phony Unemployment Trust Fund?

What's really ironic is that about a third of this debt Bush is running up comes from stolen Social Security money anyway. Instead of going for war and so forth, don't you think it's sort of nice that some of it might finally go towards somebody's retirement, even if it is the Mexicans?

The sad part is that the Mexicans won't get a great deal more of this surplus Social Security money. When working in the U.S., they are usually working for minimum wage. And when they go home, what do you suppose they're making in their own country? Any payments they get probably will not make much of a dent in our federal larder. Our surplus is probably more than enough to put everyone over 65 in Mexico on retirement whether they've ever been to the U.S. or not.

This Bush plan is just as meaningless as his "personal accounts" for entry level American workers. Bush likes playing games with people at the bottom of the pay scale. That way he doesn't give up much and it makes him look like a hero. How many of these fly-by-night workers pay payroll taxes anyway?

If Americans cared one iota about things like this, there would have been a huge commotion long ago. Instead, we've been turning to crooks to protect us.

So don't worry about it. You will still be able to go right back to burying your head in the sand, saying "I don't want to hear it," and enjoying getting robbed regularly by your protectors. Sit back and enjoy it the way you've always done. For God's sake, don't complain or make any waves.