I am always taken aback by tactics such as these. My daughter was sent it by a friend. Hubby was also sent it earlier by his winger brother. It about taxes under Clinton and Bush, and how much we are spending on immigration issues as opposed to the war. We all know it's bogus information, we would just like an intelligent and factual way to respond to a few of the points. The tax issue looks like it might be the easiest. Immigration vs the war...I don't get that. Illegal immigrants do not get welfare or WIC supplements. People read this stuff and really want to believe it. So sad.
> Part 1
>
> Read the following facts of less than two years 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:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> 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 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 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? Read this:
> I hope the following 14 factual statistics 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> 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> 5. $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> 6. $3 Million Dollars 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 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> 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> 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 $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
>
>
> Are we open to becoming knowledgeable?
>
>
>
> If this information doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on
> the other hand, it does, please consider forwarding it to every legal resident
> in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C. - maybe five
> times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of compassion and
> intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof. There is not one of us
> who does not want to do the right thing of being compassionate and intelligent.
> We just need to know what it is we are genuinely capable of being and doing.
> END
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