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Report Shows Where Billions Of Tax Dollars Are Going: Earmarks

[fibonacci_]

I thought this was about fat people.

[danstoned]

Quote from Corproate US Media: "John McCain doesnt do earmarks."

$700 BILLION annual US defense budget!
$535 BILLION per year to service the Reagan/Bush/McCain national debt.

Corporate US media, the end of free press in the USA!

[theusa1st]

theUSA1st - interesting figures. Did you have a site on this ?

Posted by speakinup at 10:56 AM : Apr 02,2008

12. The National Policy Institute, estimates 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.
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=deportation

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 ***
crimes are 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!!!

[theusa1st]

theUSA1st - interesting figures. Did you have a site on this ?

Posted by speakinup at 10:56 AM : Apr 02,2008

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 are spent each year on illegal aliens for
welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 billion dollars per 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 2005, there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our southern border with 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.
http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

[johnny343sc]

WOW! AND JOHN McCAIN''''S CRUSADE IS AGAINST THIS VERY SUBJECT--- WASTEFUL EARMARKS!

GO FIGURE... MAYBE HE KNOWS SOMETHING OBAMA BIN LADEN AND HITLER-Y DO NOT...

McCAIN 2008!!!

;)

[theusa1st]

theUSA1st - interesting figures. Did you have a site on this ?

Posted by speakinup at 10:56 AM : Apr 02,2008

Interesting Statistics.

1. $11 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare
to illegal aliens. http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 billion dollars are spent each year 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 are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal
aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 billion dollars are spent each year 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.01.html

5. $17 billion dollars are spent each year 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 PER DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal
aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

[fuzzybear9]

Fuzzy Bear can you put this in laymens terms ?

Yes I can and will

think of it this way.

We are all involved in a big game of Monopoly
`` by Parker Brothers `` for those of the x generation.

and the Fed : has all the color groups BoardWalk, Parkplace, Marvins Garden, Illinois, New York, St Charles Place and all the Utilities and Railroads

and all we own is half the color Group of Mediteranian and one get out of Jail free Card.

and we are located on Chance with a chance of rolling a seven and landing on Boardwalk. and we only have
$10 and we are hoping to get to Go so we can collect
$200 and avoid Bankruptcy.

Now normally we would be upset but since the value of our Monopoly money is Zero which is what the U.S. dollar is fast approaching, we gleafully tip the board and say, lets start another game.

Sincerely Fuzzy Bear
Ok so you didn`t like the ending.

[fjoy11]

I agree that earmarks are a disagreeable way of getting funds for any program but....to bring the First Tee program to the forfront as a major abuser is sad. This is a program that teaches much more than golf!!! Remember "Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" This program teaches all these things on the golf course.....Live skills of commitment, self respect, honesty, integrity, courtesy etc. I''m sure our golf prosfessionals would make up the 3 million before they would see this program critisized in any way.

[speakinup]

And, it''s NOT the waste the conservastives are so worried about - it''s the statements that they are looking for CHANGE, then conducting business as usual.

[speakinup]

singingrick - enough of the political retoric - checkout what an earmark is.