Are We Really That Stupid
(In Just One Year)?

by: We don’t know, but we did confirm the data

PART 1:

Remember the election in 2006? 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%.

Well, folks, since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006, we have:

1. consumer confidence plummeting;
   
2. the cost of regular gasoline soaring to over $3.50 a gallon;
   
3. unemployment up to 5% (a 10% increase);
   
4. American households seeing $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
   
5. Americans seeing their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion; and
   
6. 1% of American homes in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Remember: Congress makes law, 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. (www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html)

Both Democratic candidates 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 that 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.

PART 3:

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?

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://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8.

2. $2.2 billion 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 a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html.

4. $12 billion 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.01.html.

5. $17 billion 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.

6. $3 million a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html.

7. 30% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html.

8. $90 billion a year is spent on illegal aliens for welfare and social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html.

9. $200 billion 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 U.S. 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 and 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://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf.

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.

14. “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.” Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml.

The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION A YEAR.

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Are we THAT stupid? If this doesn’t bother you, then just delete the message. If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington D.C. five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.