You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:
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.
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
7. 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?
Why yes we are that stupid, and let us look at the up coming elections. The land of the free (for the illegals) because of the brave.
ReplyDeleteThat number is way understated. You've got to add in the crime stats, the economic effect of depressing wages artificially throughout the economy, and most importantly-- the message that it send throughout the rest of our society that THE LAW DOES NOT MATTER.
ReplyDeleteRemember that illegal alien does not just mean Latinos--there are millions of Middle eastern aliens as well.
ReplyDeleteWe need to make it clear that the people we are talking about are ILLEGAL! We love the aliens that come legally as most of our families did when they came from what ever country they previously lived. Learning the language, learning the constitution, learning how to become an American.
ReplyDeleteBut now, we have ILLEGAL aliens who want to be able to keep their language, keep their former countries constitution (or what ever document they use) and try to make our nation change to what they are.
This is the kind of inner cancer we as a nation need to cut out or we will die a slow death from the inside. One day we'll look around and wonder, "what happened to my country? where did it go?". Wait a minute, that is today!
"William Timmons,who is the head of John McCain presidential transition team,worked with various lobbyists to aid Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.William Timmons worked with Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park for 5 years and who are now in prison for acting as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.Timmons, Vincent, and Park would have earned over $45 million if they had successfully made the deals with Saddam to award him a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil."
ReplyDeleteOr are we THAT stupid?
Find me 3 honest hard working white men and I'll replace the lazy, lieing bastards with 1 good mexican. You guys watch to much news. Half of our military is of spanish and latin decent. Im white and not proud of the white race. Try living in mexico and see how fast your ass crosses that border. America is the home of the brave and the land of the free. How do you think we got that way. Besides we spend all of our money in third world countries anyway. Stop nagging and get your ass to work. Get off your ass and teach your children good work ethics.
ReplyDeleteAnd to complete the analysis, look at what they actually contribute to our economy.
ReplyDeleteOh. So they DO pay their own way and more. Such a deal.
It's no wonder big corporations are EAGER to keep them here...
And we just spent how much bailing out the good ol' Americans on Wall Street? Why is it that the rich and powerful people put these statistics out to prey on the ignorant so that you can't find the real criminals.
ReplyDeleteAsk yourself some questions-
Who had screwed you more in your life? The rich man or the immigrants?
How many times have you been downsized by illegal immigrants?
How many illegal immigrants have shipped your high tech job overseas?
How many illegal immigrants have spent 12 billion a month on a war in Iraq?
How many illegal immigrant run airlines have we had to bail out?
Time to see the forest through the trees.
Now you who is really screwing you.
Thanks for the info, but you might want to actually verify your sources before printing this.
ReplyDeleteI guess you didn't take the time to actually go to many of the links included for "verification." I went through every single link and read every single line. Many of the links do not even exist and most of them are from CNN’s Lou Dobbs who clearly has an agenda against Mexican immigrants (not Canadian immigrants...only Mexican) and widely known as a racist. Many of his blatant racist remarks can be found easily on tape all over the internet, some of it really shocking and so sad and unbelievably hypocritical considering he is married to a Mexican woman!!! Debi Segura Dobbs, his wife and mother of his children, who in 2003 and as reported by USA Today and other media, was arrested at the Newark Liberty International Airport after airport security found a loaded gun she was carrying in her handbag. She was charged with criminal possession of a weapon. Maybe he should get a handle on his "legal" wife before criticizing the law-abiding dishwashers and fieldworkers.
Upon "verifying" another one of the links listed in your email, rense.com, the disclaimer below was listed at the end of the site and after #13 on the list of "facts" in the list you sent. Pretty interesting considering these items is listed as fact. Not very responsible information.
Here is the disclaimer from one of the sources on the list:
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That disclaimer pretty much lets them off the hook for anything, true or untrue that they want to write. Pretty unreliable source....and pretty sad to think that so many people out there believe what they read without checking up on the source that it came from. Thanks for sending this because I do check up on sources and this source is clearly pathetic.
I think I will choose instead to get my information from sources that are trusted and proven to be intelligent and investigative and ethical and they are varied and many. Most respected news organizations must go through a very strict fact checking process before anything is reported or printed to assure its authenticity. I think I will stick to organizations that adhere to strict fact checking for my information. I choose to use my own intelligence to research and question information and to not quickly rely on everything that gets sent through the ether or the airwaves, sources that often use email and the Internet just to spread racism and propaganda.
There are obviously problems with illegal aliens in this country that I think many of us could agree upon, but the irony in all of this is the opening line of this list was obviously written by a very racist, uneducated person, "AN EDUCATION TO ALL WHO ARE AMERICANS..." a person who is so afraid that they can't even sign their name to their own words. Posted by joe albero, but do we know who authored this list??? A person who thinks it is okay to spread information to others who will probably, like them, be too lazy to even verify the sources and instead just believe whatever is put in front of them.
I am not too lazy; I looked at all of it. But here is the irony, who are the people this is addressed to? "The Americans" that the writer refers to? From where did we all immigrate? Not so long ago in our history, we came here from other countries to find opportunity and freedom. There was nothing to protect the REAL Americans who were already living on this continent for thousands of years from the invasion of the unlawful aliens from all those European countries that came and raped and pillaged and killed thousands of REAL Americans so that they could take the land that they wanted without honor. They then committed the worst genocide imaginable and called the land their own. They even went so far as to create treaties with the REAL Americans that they hadn't already killed only to later unlawfully break these treaties. That's not very American now is it? That's not what I call legally immigrating.
I take very personal offense to those who preach about the war on terror to try to use scare tactics and inaccuracies and outright lies to try to argue for support for the war in Iraq. Most of those people were not in New York on 9/11 and are supporting a war against a country that had nothing to do with the attack in New York City and the Pentagon on that horrible day. I live in New York City and I lived that day and saw first hand the horror of it all. I experienced the tragedy in a very personal way and its aftermath. I remember how great it was when the country united and came together and people of all races and ethnicities were simply mourning together. That only lasted a short time and before too long, The Bush Administration began to act illegally and unethically to drag our country into a war that has created untold devastation and alienated and damaged the standing of the US from the rest of the world entirely. The US has enjoyed a history of reverence and admiration from the rest of the world because of its leadership and now, sadly, we are considered terrorists by most of the world because of the policies of the current administration. That is also not very American, now is it?
It is very sad and disheartening what is happening politically and socially and intellectually in this country. There are so many people who chose to sit on their couches and gorge on fast food and poison their own bodies and watch whatever is fed to them on TV and to engage in gossip and fear and petty thoughts and blame everyone else but themselves instead of taking the time to actually read and research and discover and learn and enlighten and enjoy. Many of the biggest complainers do not even vote, (i.e. "Joe the Plumber" whose real name is Sam and who is not a licensed plumber and who owes back taxes and who misspelled his very own name (is that even possible unless you are a moron?) on his voter registration. So, Joe, Sam, whatever your name is you are not even registered to vote at all and will not be eligible to vote in the current election...way to go Joe! Keep complaining, but don't educate yourself to do anything about it! You must be a genius!)
Sometimes when I see things like this "list" which contains some factual information and that is a good thing, but it is interesting to me that every single "fact" on this list had to do with the southern border when every single terrorist who committed the attack on 9/11 came through our northern border with Canada. The writer is not complaining here about illegal white Canadian or European immigrants, just those pesky little Mexican immigrants with brown skin, dammit. I would call that racist.
Let's be real here, this list is basically used to spread racist hate against those who just like our ancestors, all of us, came to this country to try to have a better life. Most of the food that all of us Americans eat every night on our kitchen tables are harvested in the fields by those illegal aliens doing the backbreaking jobs that the morbidly, obese Americans won't get off their fat asses and do....and yet they complain that their are no jobs and then they don't even drag their fat asses to the polls to vote.
After reading this list that is directly targeted against Mexicans who are just the latest immigrants in the long history of immigrants to this country, and since most Americans can trace their history to somewhere else on the planet and since there is only a small minority who can truly claim to be REAL Americans, the ones who are left after their ancestors were brutally massacred in most cases and who were pushed off their own land and now live in substandard conditions in reservations on land that the original illegal aliens decided they didn’t want, I am left feeling sick and tired of every racist person, word, view, thought, act, perception, stereotype in this country. I for one will stand up every time I hear it or see it.
So as far as cluing me in oh mystery writer of racist propaganda… thanks. I knew racism was alive and well, but I guess it is always a little shocking to see how bad it really is. I will now work even harder to do what ever I can to fight it and its negative effects on the world we have to share as human beings.
Maybe then we can be reminded of our similarities and not our differences, maybe then we can remember that we all bleed red.
I will sign off with the beautiful words that grace one of the greatest American iconic symbols, the Statue of Liberty. I think these words by Emma Lazarus in 1883 say with great eloquence what we should all be reminded of as Americans.
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Open your eyes!