October 17
I got this in my email box earlier in the week. I have not went through the URLs yet. I will this weekend. But feel free to read it if you want. Interesting stuff here if it is all accurate. Keep in mind I am not the author, so don't whine to me, I am just passing it along to you.
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It makes you wonder.......who is stupid ??? or just doesn't get
it?? This email comes in three parts....Make sure you read all three
parts! It is longer than most, but worth the read.
Part 1
Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:
- Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
- Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
- The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
- Consumer confidence plummet;
- The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $4.10 a gallon;
- Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
- American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
- Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
- 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
- Food prices skyrocketing over 30% in 1 year.
America voted for change in 2006, and we got it! Remember, it is
Congress that makes the laws and spends our money not the President. He
has to work with what's handed to him.
Part 2:
Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find
these statistics enlightening and amazing. Verify at:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.HTML
| Taxes under
CLINTON-1999
| Taxes under BUSH-2008
|
| Single earning:
| Single earning:
|
| 30K taxed: $8,400
| 30K taxed: $4,500
|
| 50K taxed: $14,000
| 50K taxed: $12,500
|
| 75K taxed: $23,250
| 75K taxed: $18,750
|
| Married earning:
| Married earning:
|
| 60K taxed: $ 16,800
| 60K taxed: $ 9,000
|
| 75K taxed: $ 21,000
| 75K taxed: $ 18,750
|
| 125K taxed: $ 38,750
| 125K taxed: $ 31,250
|
Barack Obama promises to return to the higher tax rates if elected.
It is amazing how many people who fall into the categories above think
Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever.
If elected, Barack Obama has already promised that he will repeal the
Bush tax cuts, and amazingly, a good portion of the people who fall
into the categories above can't wait for it to happen.
PART 3:
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read
this: Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda
that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I
now find that to be RIDICULOUS. Read on...
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again
until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading
them. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following
facts.
- $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal
aliens each year by state governments. Verify at:
http://tinyurl.com/zob77
- $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent
on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school
lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
- $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://wwwcis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
- $12
Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of
English! Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.HTML
- $17
Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born
children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at:
http://transcripts..cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
- $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
- 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
- $90
Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at:
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
- $200
Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the
illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
- The
illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a
half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their
children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
- During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens
from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth,
heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl..com/t9sht
- The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of
mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year
period.' Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
- In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
- 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex
Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.' Verify
at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. Are we
THAT stupid? If this doesn't bother you, then just delete the message.
If, on the other hand, it raises the hair on the back of your neck, I
hope you continue to forward it to every legal resident in the country
including every representative in Washington, D.C
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