It's emails like this that really make me sad (and a rant about it....) [View All]

I love my family back east. They are good people and (as mom used to say) if you were without a shirt they would give you you the one off their back. Of course maybe that is because they have a spare at home ;)

At any rate, here is the email I got tonight: (My comments on it follows):


This is unbelievable. I knew it was a lot but never thought this much. And we have a recession?


WHAT COSTS MORE PER YEAR THAN THE IRAQ WAR? You guessed it!!!


Illegal Aliens Cause Massive Cuts For US Seniors


December 4, 2007


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 the following facts:


1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. 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. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/f%20iscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. 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! 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.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html


6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

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 a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers. 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. http://transcriptscnn.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/T%20RANSCRIPTS/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. 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." http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf


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 Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States". http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml



Total cost is a whooping... $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!!


If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message, but on the other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, then forward it.


Snopes is provided for doubters:


http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/bankofamerica.asp

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Ok - so I should be happy about a war where my money is spent killing people, but you are wanting me to be upset over my money going to HELP some other people????

But for the grace of God I would be there - looking to sneak into another country to feed and cloth my kids. That's not being illegal, that's being a capitalist - because while they don't GO there they send their money to many countries to get a return on it.

When and investor does it we call that a good move and wise investment, when a person does it for their kids and family we call it illegal and immoral.

You want to arrest and deport those here without going through all your rules, but yet you support those that outsource jobs here to India/etc?

You want to let someone suffer medically because they were not born here - how is that following the Christian values you say you hold?

I would RATHER spend my dollars helping out illegals here and the poor than pouring it into wars. Helping people over killing them seems like a pretty good thing to me. Maybe not so much to you on the RW.

You think my friends here illegally are here just to tick you off? No. They are here because they value their families and want to make a better life for them. Something I thought people on the RW would understand. But instead you see them as a threat because their culture is different than yours. They don't need the BMW's and big mansions, they just want to eek out a simple living to feed their families and live several families to a household to save money.

What you see as a crap wage they see as a treasure. So maybe the problem is not them, maybe it is us and how we see being consumers.