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 $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 <http://www.taxfoundation.org/publica...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 <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 <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 <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/TRANSCRIP.../01/ldt.0.html <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...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/TRANSCRIP...01/ldt.01.html <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...1/ldt.01.html>

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

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...01/ldt.01.html <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...1/ldt.01.html>

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illega
aliens.
Verify at:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...01/ldt.01.html <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...1/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 <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/TRANSCRIP...01/ldt.01.html <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...1/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/TRANSCRIP...12/ldt.01.html <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...2/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 <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.o...eportation.pdf <http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.o...portation.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 <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 <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 this 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.

ldj1938, of all the posts I have read in this Political Forum yours is spot on. No name calling or race baiting, just the facts. I applaud your posts......Johnny

Those "facts" have been debated many times in past topics. To address just one of them, the tax issue, read this link at snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/clinton-bush.asp
According to snopes, te numbers presented in the above chart are incorrect. Also to be considered, in addition to the taxes being lower thanks to Bush and Republican tax cuts, the deficit is much higher.

If you want to blame the oil crisis and general economic downturn on the Democrats, its your option, but again, snopes.com says the email you quoted is a complete fallacy: http://www.snopes.com/politics/busin...dforchange.asp

Originally Posted by Lil Dancer

Those "facts" have been debated many times in past topics. To address just one of them, the tax issue, read this link at snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/clinton-bush.asp
According to snopes, te numbers presented in the above chart are incorrect. Also to be considered, in addition to the taxes being lower thanks to Bush and Republican tax cuts, the deficit is much higher.

If you want to blame the oil crisis and general economic downturn on the Democrats, its your option, but again, snopes.com says the email you quoted is a complete fallacy: http://www.snopes.com/politics/busin...dforchange.asp

While the "Urban Legend Reference Pages" web site is interesting, it is far from being an authoritative reference. Even the site owners acknowledge on the "donations" page that:

The Urban Legends Reference Pages is a huge site devoted to the study of contemporary lore, and a vital, ever-changing one at that because the rumors we as a society encounter and the stories we tell are always evolving. Yet for all its size and the monumental respect accorded it by journalists and folklorists the world over, the Urban Legends Reference Pages (or snopes.com, as it is better known) is, surprisingly enough, the work of just two people who began this repository of their writings as a labor of love in 1995 and who have been adding to it ever since. There's no big sponsor behind the site, no special interest groups that have to be catered to; it's just a guy and a gal who get a kick out of researching odd stories.

It's a fun site, and I respect the Mikkelsons for keeping it running this long. However, when it comes to statistical research on technical issues, as opposed to urban legends, the efficacy of snopes.com is subject to challenge.

Point well taken. However, I agree with the analysis that snopes came up with that the changes noted in the above email were years in the making, not just the result of the whims of one political party. And even the assertion that the Democrats are in charge is certainly questionable. Democrats control the House, there is a tie in the Senate, and we have a Republican President.

I would think a person would have to look at the references that snopes cites as well. In the tax piece, for example, snopes cites The Tax Foundation, a non- partisan tax research group located in Washington. Seems like an valid technical resource to me.

Snopes.com usually just references other sources for various topics. Their links often go to local newspaper articles and the like. They also seem to stay very far away from hot conspiracy theory topics like Big Foot, Area 51, the JFK assassination, the lunar landing, etc.

Snopes.com does put together things nicely in an organized fashion so that you can look for information on various urban legends.