What are we doing...Think about this !!!
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| Wed, 06-04-2008 - 7:06pm |
Got this as an e-mail and wanted your thoughts.
What are we doing...Think about this !!!!
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> > This email comes in three parts: Read them all...
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> > Part 1
> > In just one year. Remember the election in 2006?
> > Thought you might like to read the following:
> > A little over one year ago:
> >
> > 1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
> > 2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
> > 3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
> >
> > Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
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> > 1) Consumer confidence plummet;
> > 2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3..50 a gallon;
> > 3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
> > 4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value
> > evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
> > 5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
> > 6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
> >
> > America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!
> >
> > Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President.
> > He has to work with what's handed to him.
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> >
> > Part 2:
> > Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these
> > statistics enlightening and amazing.
> > www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
> > Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008
> > Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax
> > $4,500
> > Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax
> > $12,500
> > Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax
> > $18,750
> > Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
> > Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax
> > $18,750
> > Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax
> > $31,250
> > Both democratic canidates will return to the higher tax rates
> >
> > It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above
> > think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest
> > President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they
> > will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that
> > fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is
> > like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of
> > some money and they don't even know what happened.
> >
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> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal
> > aliens
> > each year by state governments.
> > Verify at:http://tinyurl.com/zob77
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> > 2. $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
> >
> >
> > 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal
> > aliens.
> > Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
> >
> > 4. $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
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> > 5 $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
> > American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
> > Verify athttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
> >
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> > 6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
> > Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
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> > 7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
> > Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
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> > 8 $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
> > social services by the American taxpayers.
> > Verify at: http://premiumcnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
> >
> >
> > 9. $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
> >
> >
> > 10. 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
> >
> >
> > 11. 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
> >
> >
> > 12. 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
> >
> >
> > 13. 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
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> > 14. '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 $3383 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.


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Ummm, I'd say be careful of the spam you get in your email.
Re: the email, I should probably offer snopes.com, the urban legend website:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/votedforchange.asp
Did you read my links or the snoop link from KM?
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