Are We Stupid or What? 

It makes you wonder ......


This email comes in three parts....Make sure you read all three parts!

Part 1
In just one year.  Remember the election in 2006?

Thought you might like to read the following:

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 $4.10 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.
7) Food prices skyrocketing over 30% in 1 year.

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.

Quote of the Day........'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

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  earning:                                           Single earning:
30K - taxed- $   8,400                                  30K - taxed $   4,500
50K - taxed  $ 14,000                                  50K - taxed $ 12,500
75K - taxed  $ 23,250                                  75K - taxed $ 18,750
Married earning:                                         Married earning:
60K -   taxed  $ 16,800                               60K - taxed $   9,000
75K -   taxed $ 21,000                                75K - taxed $ 18,750
125K - taxed $ 38,750                                125K ? taxed $ 31,250

Barack Obama promises to return to the higher tax rates if elected. 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 elected, Barack Obama has already promised that he will repeal the Bush tax cuts, and amazingly, 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. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.  Read on...  (That's "B" as in "Billions")
 
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://wwwcis..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 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 continue to forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C. until restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.

From The Wall Street Journal, By DANIEL HENNINGER:"On Sunday, he said on national television that to solve Social Security "everything's on the table,"...A quaote from McCain .