A Year ago

[James B]

This email comes in three parts: 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 maki ng 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 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 &nb sp; 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.co m/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? 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. do

[Aught Six]

Have to say, a year ago my white box value packs were running about $23. Today, $34.

But to suggest thatour illegal immigration problems, or even Congress,are the root of our current financial crises? I think it runs a little deeper than that.

[Briman]

Have to say, a year ago my white box value packs were running about $23. Today, $34.

Here the 100ct WWB packs were $19 last year and are now $29 for .45 auto.
Black hills .223 match ammo was $24/50 now is at $37+/50.



I can't afford to shoot my guns because I scraping change out of the sofa to keep my vehicles full of gas.[:@]

[Aught Six]

Yeah, it sucks. I'm doing a lot more dry firing than live shooting. Almosttempted to sell off my surplus at a sweet profit, but who knows how much this stuff will cost in another year?

[Briman]

Almosttempted to sell off my surplus at a sweet profit, but who knows how much this stuff will cost in another year?

Probably nothing, as everyone else will be doing the same.


I recently bought a used .22 target rifle in order to practice my rifle shooting skills for high power competition on the cheap, even though good .22lr ammo is getting pricey too.

[Aught Six]

Probably nothing, as everyone else will be doing the same.


I recently bought a used .22 target rifle in order to practice my rifle shooting skills for high power competition on the cheap, even though good .22lr ammo is getting pricey too.

Well, if the Pentagon keeps burning up a billion rounds per year, maybe not. Metal prices and high consumption are obvious causes, butgun ownersare worried about the election as well. There is certainly a lot of hoarding (and caching) going on.

I almost had a heart attack last time I went to the big gun show in Dulles. Seemed like every semi-auto rifle wasmarked up 25% compared to thelast show a few months before. My cousin picked up an SVT-40 and had a guy offer him $200 above sticker price as we were walking out the door.

[bergall]

So let's vote democrat. I cannot understand, just based on economic sensibilities, how ANYONE
would vote democrat, ideological differences aside. How is it, that a blue-collar construction worker
can justify voting democrat when all they promise is more taxes and a higher cost of living for
'brother' union members.... It just defies comprehension.

[DougMD]

....but won't higher taxes on people who work for a living help get our economy jump started?

[Briman]

How is it, that a blue-collar construction worker
can justify voting democrat when all they promise is more taxes and a higher cost of living for
'brother' union members.... It just defies comprehension.

That's why most trade usnions are going the way of the dinosaurs- you can't fool people forever about the Democrats being for the 'working people.'

On the other hand, unions for government workers are thriving- government workers don't care as much about taxes so long as they are direct benificiaries of the tax money.

[DougMD]

...sort of like the IPCC, dire predictions and grant money. Prostitution, the green way!