<< .... half of all illegal aliens currently living in the U.S. came here since Bush became president in 2000 .... >>
During which same period the value [Purchasing Power] of the United States Dollars has been halved!
[So relax, salaries and wages (Except to deliberately put you into a higher tax bracket) and house "values" and gas prices didn't rise, the bastards just counterfeited and put into circulation, twice as much "legal tender"]
Only a governement can take something as intrinsically valuable
Only a governement can take something as intrinsically valuable as paper, slap some ink on both sides of it and thus render it absolutely worthless.