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Ummm...isn't that what statisticians are paid to do?
Otherwise, they'd be called Accountants.
Just consider the following ... this is not intended to offend any liberals:
This email comes in three parts:
PART 1:
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 Democratically controlled 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 the law, not the President. He has
to work with what’s handed him.Remember, it’s Congress that makes the
law, not the President. He has to work with what’s handed 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 democrat candidates will return to the higher tax rates.
It is amazing how many people who 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&nbs p;who 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 propaganda that it’s 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 URLs 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.cisorg/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify
at: http://www.cisorg/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 M illion 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.htm
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 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 are 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 voters 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????
Marque -Diane Vassar
Sacramento State University
COMS 103 Graduate Assistant
nor does this article reflect alan greenspan’s views, either!
And the next question should be.....”if the books are being cooked, by who and why?” Who is really in control and what is the ultimate goal? Is our government really a sham and are we all being duped by another organization?
Only when a Republican occupies the White House do numbers mean something different than what they say. When a dem holds the office, the numbers mean what the numbers mean, unless they’re bad, in which case they’re not as bad as they seem, hence Bush has presided over the worst economy since Hoover and the Carter years were not so bad.
If we listened to them alone, we'd all be slitting our wrists.
A good summary of important corruptions that affect us all.
Aside from high gas prices and a rise in food prices, I am not personally aware of any problems in the national economy. Maybe I’m just lucky — but I get the impression that the panic is totally overblown.
The old methods overstated inflation. They assumed constant proportions of income for a standard basket of goods and didn't take into account substitutes. Let's say the price of beef goes up. The old method assumed beef is a constant proportion of household consumption. Real consumers shift consumption over to substitutes like chicken. A price index that fully adjust the price overcompensates, so consumers can can buy a better basket of goods after the indexing.
There are lies, D*mned lies, and then there are statistics.
I think that speaks a lot more about the economy that all the blowhards blathering about bread lines and tent cities.
Kevin Phillips was the author of “The Coming Republican Majority” back in the 70s. I’ve always enjoyed reading his work. As usual around here he is a Good Guy when what he writes agrees with the party line. And then he’s a Marxist when he writes something about the emperor’s clothes.
If things are so bad why did Disney do so good?
funny after greenspan just said the worst of the credit crunch is over
on drudge.com
I 100% agree with that article and love the key phrase “pollyanna creep”. Note it cuts across political parties — endemic to the notion of big government.
The Sidlinger Corp. tracked the true numbers back in the Nineties, but Old Man Sidlinger is gone. Now John Williams tracks the true stats at his Shadowstats website.
This article is a Unified Field Theory of Governmental Manipulation of Statistics. And both parties were in it up to their necks.
then why post left wing propaganda ?
what is the point ?