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Vanity Post- Musings from a Silly Conservative
4-19-08 | MissEdie

Posted on 04/18/2008 10:31:43 AM PDT by MissEdie

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

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

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?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buyersremorse; change; congress; cultureofcorrution; democratcongress; democratscandals; dnctalkingpoints; economy; elections; itstheeconomystupid; pelosisfault
Wanted to share some info with my fellow Freepers!!
1 posted on 04/18/2008 10:31:43 AM PDT by MissEdie
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To: MissEdie

Are we THAT stupid?


I represent that............


2 posted on 04/18/2008 10:34:37 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: MissEdie

Thank you very much MissEdie...:-)


3 posted on 04/18/2008 10:35:46 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly (Proud member of the largest 'Hate Group' in the USA...The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy")
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To: MissEdie

Like in 1984

Lie about the past; bleat that Clinton was great and Bush is bad, but despite what history says, people will believe it.

Lie enough, and soon enough the lie becomes the truth.


4 posted on 04/18/2008 10:37:23 AM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
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To: MissEdie
Certain politicians and media people might not like you sharing this info.

They have an election to win and voters to fool.

5 posted on 04/18/2008 10:41:34 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: MissEdie

WOW


6 posted on 04/18/2008 10:41:38 AM PDT by stockpirate (Obama and Hillery will make me vote for McCain, now if we can just move him to the right.)
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To: MissEdie
Formatting is your friend.

Instead of 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

Try:

$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.

7 posted on 04/18/2008 10:41:42 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Typical White Person)
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To: MissEdie

awesome


8 posted on 04/18/2008 10:43:49 AM PDT by frankiep (Democrats base their ideology on the premise that you are too stupid to do anything for yourself.)
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To: MissEdie

I think this was read on Rush yesterday.

I got it in my inbox about a week ago, so Great Job! The word is getting out!

Hopefully people will listen.


9 posted on 04/18/2008 10:46:22 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am very mad at Disney. Give me my James Marsden song!!!!!)
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To: MissEdie

Nice job!


10 posted on 04/18/2008 10:50:02 AM PDT by NYC Republican (John McCain- Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory...)
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To: MissEdie

All of our woes can be traced to a plumeting dollar. George Soros has made his billions by crashing currencies. I think he is a better target for your recession. The Democratic congress hasn’t done anything.


11 posted on 04/18/2008 10:52:27 AM PDT by Soliton (McCain couldn't even win a McCain look-alike contest)
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To: MissEdie

Thank you for posting this. I just copied it and emailed to my contact list...


12 posted on 04/18/2008 10:57:17 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Note to McCain: The voters are not united FOR you, they are uniting AGAINST Clinton/Obama)
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To: MissEdie
Gasoline was $2.12 per gallon here in the Pittsburgh area on Election Day, 2006. I posted the key numbers that day.

There was a great cartoon at the time with a doofus-looking character saying "I'm voting for change" while passing by a guy reading newspaper headlines like "No major terrorist attacks in 5 years" and "Dow soars to 12,500." We need to bring back that cartoon, poster sized, to hold up whenever the cartoon character with big ears speaks.

13 posted on 04/18/2008 11:04:50 AM PDT by Vigilanteman ((Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud))
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To: wastedyears
Lie enough, and soon enough the lie becomes the truth.

A lie is as good as the truth as long as you get someone to believe it! (Manipulating your line just a bit.)

14 posted on 04/18/2008 11:13:45 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Kill 'em til they're dead, then kill 'em again!)
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To: MissEdie
Remember it’s Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what’s handed to him.

One of my pet peeves is people who can't seem to grasp this. The other is folks who don't know the difference Authorization and Appropriations.

Thanks for the facts, good work.

15 posted on 04/18/2008 11:32:24 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: Soliton

Soros seats Democrats.


16 posted on 04/18/2008 11:41:48 AM PDT by weegee (Religion is the opiate of the masses MARX1843 They get bitter, they cling to...religion OBAMA2008)
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