Marco Rubio just said what millions of Americans are thinking.
Marco Rubio just said what millions of Americans are thinking.
Why does someone who worked here for 40 years get less from Social Security than an able-bodied person who just arrived in America three months ago.
“One of the things I see a lot in South Florida are people that have been in this country, maybe they came from Cuba 45 years ago. They’ve worked here their entire lives… they retire and get $800-$900 or a thousand dollars per month on Social Security.
And then you run into somebody who just got here three months ago, 29 years old, doesn’t work and is given fifteen hundred dollar monthly benefits by our government because they’re refugees. That refugee, a year later is traveling back to Cuba 15 times.
So, you’re a refugee fleeing oppression from a place that you now go and visit fifteen times the following year. And in the meantime we are giving Medicaid, food stamps, health care for your children, cash payments from Refugee Fund.
So imagine if you’ve been working here 40 years and your Social Security check is smaller than benefits going to a 28-year old able bodied person who just got here. That’s real. That happens. That’s happening every day. That makes no sense.”
