What a difference a year makes....

[CygnusX1]

All this in just one year... Hard to believe, but verified with a
link attached.

In just one year...

Thought you might like to read the following:

Part 1

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:

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
SHOCKING, enlightening and amazing...
(depending on which side of the aisle you've been on):

www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Both democratic canidates will return to the higher tax rates.It is
amazing how many people that fall into the tax categories above think
Bush is screwing them, yet 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:

"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. NOW I FIND
THAT TO BE SO QUESTIONABLE!"

"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 and understands the media political entertainment circuit!"

(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 www.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 www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

Verify at 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 www.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 www.transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

Verify at www.transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

Verify at www.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 www.premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by illegal aliens.

Verify at www.transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States of America have a crime rate
that is 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 www.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, have crossed into the U.S. from the southern
border. The recent Congressional vote stopped the 'fence' construction.

Verify at: Homeland Security Report: www.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: www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back
to their country(ies) of origin.

Verify at 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 www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

The total cost: A WHOPPING $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Are we THAT stupid?

If this raises 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.

[ElfDude]

America voted for change in 2006, and WE GOT IT.

Awwwwww YEAH!

[awip2062]

Are we THAT stupid?

If we really look at what is going on and what we are (not) doing about it, I would have to say either "yes" or "duped".

[CygnusX1]

Are we THAT stupid?

If we really look at what is going on and what we are (not) doing about it, I would have to say either "yes" or "duped".

I lean toward "duped." It saves face.

I'd rather be called IGNORANT than STUPID, but then again, they're
Cousins. hahahaha