Goofy email forwards

A friend of my Wife sent the below email to her. She forwarded it to me to read. She thought it to be a good idea for us both to sign it and forward it on to our friends. I let out a big laugh and told her it was a hoax. How can you tell? she asked. I said in the first place it is an email, How many wacko emails do you think the White House gets per day? They/He will never read it, also a petition must contain your written signature to be worth the paper its written on. I looked it up on snopes.com and as I said also, they list it as Status: Ineffective. Now may be this petition states some good ideas, an email is not the way to get your point across to the powers that be. If you want to let President Bush learn your thoughts send a telegram or a signed letter. By the way, State the bill number that is in question. If you want to go big time, Start your own petition on paper then mail it to him. Don't waste your time and bandwidth with these goofy email forwards.
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SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGES
It is already impossible to live on Social Security alone. If the
government gives benefits to 'illegal' aliens who have never contributed, where does that leave those of us who have paid into Social Security all our working lives? As stated below, the Senate voted this week to allow 'illegal' aliens access to Social Security benefits. Attached is an opportunity to sign a petition that requires citizenship for eligibility to that social service. Instructions are below. If you don't forward the petition and just stop it, we will lose all these names. If you do not want to sign it, please just forward it to everyone you know. Thank you!

PETITION for President Bush:

Dear Mr President:
We, the undersigned, protest the bill that the Senate voted on recently which would allow illegal aliens to access our Social Security. We demand that you and all Congressional representatives require citizenship as a pre-requisite for social services in the United States. We further demand that there not be any amnesty given to illegals, NO free services, no funding, no payments to and for illegal immigrants.