I got a similar email, in 3 parts, in which what you wrote was the 3rd. Here are the first 2.

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.

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.


The fact that both Dem candidates promise to raise taxes doesn't mean anything. The Congress is going to stay under Dem control, barring something dramatic, which means that the last 2 tax cuts are going to expire after 2010. This will be the largest tax increase in the history of the US. Plan accordingly.

>I got this in an email today....
>
>Boy am I confused. Listening to the Partisan 'politicals', 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.
>
>Now ..... 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. http://tinyurl.com/zob77%20
>
>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.
> http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
>
>3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal
>aliens. 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!
> 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.
> http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
>
>6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal
>aliens.
> http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
>
>7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
> 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.
> 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.
> 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
> 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, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U.S. from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report:
> http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
>
>12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost
>of mass deportation would be betw een $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
> http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
>
>13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
> 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 '. http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
>
>The total cost is a whopping: $ 338.3 BILLION dollars a year.