Food for thought

It's probably a little early for a lot of y'all to be thinking about November elections. But thought I'd pass these tidbits along.

Part 1:
Remember the election in 2006? Democrats wanted to "change" things in Washington, so the American people put them in charge of both houses of Congress. Here's a before and after sampling of what kinds of change we've seen:

BEFORE

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 THE LIBS TOOK CONTROL

1) Consumer confidence has plummeted;
2) The cost of regular gasoline has soared to almost $4 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity va lue 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.

And now let's take a look at what our presumptive Democrat nominee says (about all he says, actually): "My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it."

Personally, I think we've seen enough "change."


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 who 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:

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 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
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: ht tp://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/TRANSCRIPTS/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 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 $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.html
14. The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly 1 million sex crimes are committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.Verify at http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html

Total cost: $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Are we THAT stupid? I say that if the Libs are going to continue playing games with funding the war, giving the troops the necessities to do their job and PAY THEM to do it (which the Libs have been doing since 2006, by the way), then I don't want another tax dollar spent on illegals, either. Wonder what kind of shape our economy would be in then?

(Imported from May 31, 2008)