(OT) how much does it cost?

In just one year. Remember the election in 2006? Thought you might like to read the following: A little over one year ago (when the Republicans controlled congress):

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.

1) Consumer confidence plummeted;

2) The cost of regular gasoline soared 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.

........'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.' -- Barack Obama

HUH?!?! Did I read that right?

Part 2:

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.

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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 happene d.

PART 3:

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

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. Billion to billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.

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1. .2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

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1. .5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

Verify at: /www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html_

1. Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!

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1. 17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

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1. Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

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1. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

Verify at: ht tp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html_

1. Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.

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1. 0 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

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1. 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.

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1. 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.

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1. The National Policy Institute 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between 6 and 0 billion or an average cost of between and billion annually over a five year period.'

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1. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.

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1. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in the US.'

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

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.