[Vision2020] Fw: FW: info you may want to consider before you castyour vote

Thu Jun 5 11:58:10 PDT 2008

Sadly, to some people, this is not a rhetorically ironic question at all.  They've got a resounding "YES!!!" already demonstrated.

Keely

> From: suehovey at moscow.com
> To: lfalen at turbonet.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:23:56 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fw: FW: info you may want to consider before you	castyour vote
> 
> So it's better to spend tax money on an ill-considered war than to use it to 
> feed hungry children and teach them English????  (see part 3)
> 
> Sue H
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>
> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:39 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Fw: FW: info you may want to consider before you 
> castyour vote
> 
> 
> >
> > -----Original message-----
> >
> > From: "Eileen Rowan" rowan33 at suddenlink.net
> > Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:16:53 -0700
> > To: rowan33 at suddenlink.net
> > Subject: FW: info you may want to consider before you cast your vote
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > This email comes in 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 ½ 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.
> >
> >
> > 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 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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:  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.  Du ring 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
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ~ It's not how much you do, but how much LOVE you put into the doing
> > that matters. Mother Thersa
> > ~
> >
> >
> >
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