If there are any doubts in your mind as to why the country is going broke then read this article

Ethanol Subsidies: $10 A Gallon And $14 Million Per Job Created

By JED GRAHAM, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 12/10/2010 06:57 PM ET

Corn is unloaded to be processed at an ethanol plant in Coon Rapids, Iowa. The Senate version of the $858 billion tax bill unveiled late would extend... View Enlarged Image

Here's the bottom line for the ethanol tax credits additive to the White House-GOP tax compromise:

• $6 billion in subsidies for 2011.

• $10 per extra gallon of ethanol.

• $14 million per extra job.

• $1.2 billion to attract one extra Senate vote.

In a season of giving in Washington, the ethanol lobby may come away with even more than it hoped for and its ardent defenders sought.

The Senate version of the $858 billion tax bill unveiled late Thursday — just a week after Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., proposed extending the ethanol tax credit at a reduced 36 cents a gallon — would keep the current 45-cent credit.

The Renewable Fuels Association had praised the Baucus approach for "recognizing the importance of this investment and providing some market stability as good faith efforts to responsibly reform ethanol tax policy."

That concession came after a bipartisan group of 17 senators led by Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., penned a letter arguing that ethanol subsidies are "fiscally irresponsible and environmentally unwise."

It also followed former Vice President Al Gore's recent reversal of his long backing of corn ethanol. Declaring the subsidies bad policy, Gore admitted that his presidential ambitions had skewed his motivations and had made him feel a "certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa."

Nevertheless, thanks to 11th-hour horse-trading that restored the full 45-cent credit, the tax bill may be able to count on one extra vote to clear the Senate's 60-vote hurdle on Monday: Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin.

"The only way this (ethanol deal) gets done is by tucking it into something big so people can't see it," said Franz Matzner, climate legislative director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

He notes that "70 cents of every renewable energy dollar" appropriated by Congress go to corn ethanol, an alternative fuel with "questionable benefits."

Despite the latest victory for the industry, Matzner believes the politics are shifting against it, noting that until recently, the ethanol lobby had been seeking a five-year extension of the tax credit worth $31 billion.

Extending ethanol subsidies at a cost of $6 billion for one year would result in an extra 600 million gallons, putting the subsidy at $10 per incremental gallon, according to recent projections from Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development.

$6 Bil For 420 Jobs

Center director Bruce Babcock said in an e-mail that each 100 million gallons of ethanol creates 70 jobs. Thus, 600 million gallons would result in 420 jobs, or about $14 million per job.

Feinstein and Kyl highlighted this finding in their letter. They also note that ethanol may be the only product that benefits from all three forms of government support: subsidies, tariffs to protect it from competition, and mandates that require its use.

In addition to a 45-cents-a-gallon ethanol tax credit, there is a 54-cents-a-gallon import tariff on sugar-based ethanol and a mandate that oil companies use 12.6 billion gallons of ethanol in their fuel supply in 2011.

If the tax credit and tariff were eliminated, Babcock estimates the mandate would limit any reduction in out put to 600 million barrels of ethanol.

If the mandate were also suspended, that would lower ethanol production by 1.7 billion barrels, costing

about 1,200 jobs. Meanwhile, corn prices would drop from $5.21 to $3.84 per bushel, at a time when food prices have been on the rise.

Cornell University agricultural economist and Cato Institute scholar Harry de Gorter contends that while ethanol displaces some demand for oil, the resulting drop in oil prices pulls back much of that demand.

Using Babcock's figure of $10 per incremental gallon of ethanol, which de Gorter believes is understated; he puts the subsidy cost per displaced gallon of gas at $30.

Feinstein and Kyl also highlighted the 54-cent tariff on sugar-based ethanol, which is more environmentally friendly the corn-based variety. Because the tariff is greater than the 45-cent credit it is designed to offset, it "puts imported ethanol at a competitive disadvantage against imported oil," they wrote.

The Editor: The congress still doesn't get it after the last election. Earmarks (pork) has been added to the bill to maintain the Bush tax rates. If any republican votes for more pork barrel spending, 2012 is coming and vote them out also. Remember, it just isn't the democrats that have buried our country in debt but republicans also. The will stop or we will see a third party in 2012 that will have the countries best interest at their center, not the pork their elected representative can bring home.

 

New Scanners - Do You Think Muslims Would Complain?

        The Israelis are developing an airport security device that
        Eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners at
        the airports.  It's a booth you can step into that will not X-ray you,
        but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you. They see
        this as a win-win for everyone, with none of this  crap about racial
        profiling. It also would eliminate the costs of a long and expensive
        trial.  Justice would be swift. Case closed!

        You're in the airport  terminal and you hear a muffled explosion.
        Shortly thereafter an  announcement comes over the PA system . . .
        "Attention standby passengers - we now have a seat available on
        Flight number 234.  Shalom!"

        Hats off to the Israelis!!!!

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Only Obama Would Do This

SCAREY!!!

Here They Come...this will make your day! 

Kareem Shora Arif Alikhan Well, boys and girls, today the fox is guarding the hen house. The wolves will be herding the sheep! Obama appointed two devout Muslims to homeland security posts. Obama and Janet Napolitano appointed Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria, as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a devout Catholic, a devout Jew or a devout Protestant...? Just wondering. Devout Muslims being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions? Doesn't this make you feel safer already?? That should make our home land much safer, huh!? Was it not "Devout Muslim men" that flew planes into U.S. Buildings 8 1/2 years ago? Was it not a Devout Muslim who killed 13 at Fort Hood ? Please forward this important information to any who cares about the future of our Country.

It's about time the media opened their eyes!

If not us...who? If not now...when?      Ronald Reagan  This is from the Wall Street Journal which makes it even more interesting. They were once in his camp! Wall Street Journal Sizes up Obama A "deadly" article regarding Obama, at the Wall Street Journal, which today is the most widely circulated newspaper in America .. Article from the Wall Street Journal  -  by Eddie Sessions: "I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.  In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.     His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.     He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?     He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.   And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska . It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat. The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.  Now, nearly a full 2 years into his first term, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.  Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain . The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.    Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.     Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.  He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America . He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.  The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.     Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.      When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.         We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States of America ?"

A Nuclear Chavez Gets Obama's OK

After all the fuss about Iran development nuclear capabilities, Venezuela gets a pass. Obama's OK With Chavez  Having  Nuclear Reactors   Geopolitics: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez moves ahead with plans to go nuclear with Russian help, and the response from our president has been to give the lunatic dictator his full backing. This is trouble. Not since the days of Jimmy Carter have we seen as craven a U.S. response to a provocation as Chavez's plan for two 1,200-megawatt nuclear reactors 1,400 miles from our shores. "We have no incentive or interest in increasing friction between Venezuela and the U.S., but we do think Venezuela needs to act responsibly," President Obama told the Spanish-language press Tuesday. "Our attitude is that Venezuela has rights to peacefully develop nuclear power." Oh. So forget the Monroe Doctrine. Never mind President Kennedy's response to the nuclear ambitions of Cuba. Obama's new message to the hemisphere is that Chavez can go nuclear because he's a democracy and will therefore act responsibly. Obama's message was probably intended to deprive the dictator of his capacity to whip up nationalist sentiment in the wake of a U.S. rebuke. But, ultimately, it represents a U.S. failure to deal with the kind of threat Chavez actually poses. In itself, Chavez's plan to construct reactors is little immediate threat to the U.S., its ally Colombia or Brazil. But the treaty with Russia was signed in 2009 and is meant to take 10 years to complete. In that time, Chavez will have to develop nuclear experts and find a way to finance all these reactors. Given he already owes Russia $4.4 billion for weapons purchases, the sale of Venezuela's oil facilities in Europe to Russia won't be enough. The real problem is the relationships Chavez is forging. Chavez's visit to Russia and Iran to tout the nuclear deal was meant to show the U.S. that even after he lost a legislative election in September, he still mattered. And rogue states like Russia and Iran will still do dirty business with him — even if China won't. Chavez says he means to bring in Russian and Iranian experts for his nuclear project. That opens the door to influence from the mafiya-linked criminal underworld that includes the terrorists and arms dealers at the edges of Russia's and Iran's power structures. Chavez's closest Russian associate is Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, a raving anti-American with rumored ties to illegal arms dealer Viktor Bout. The latter was arrested in Thailand soon after the discovery in 2008 of a computer belonging to FARC terrorists. People like this are more than willing to get the materials for dirty bombs and provide support for terrorists — something Chavez has already been implicated in himself without consequences the past few years. He's been caught attempting to deliver $300 million to FARC terrorists, and FARC itself has been caught trying to secure nuclear materials for a dirty bomb in Ukraine and Romania. Meanwhile, the Russian mafiya and Iran's Hezbollah have been making inroads in Latin America as well, and will now find even more of a welcome mat in Venezuela with this nuclear project. For the Obama administration to dismiss the Chavez nuclear deal is shortsighted, given the interconnected nature of the threat from these rogue states and what Venezuela will become as a result. Obama should be muscling Russia to drop the plan and threatening to make Georgia a NATO member if he doesn't. Instead, right now, the approach is to make nice with a predator who has it in for us in more ways than one.It may buy us peace now, but it will buy only trouble in the long run. The Staff: Obama will do nothing to protect us from anything as I believe it is his intention to destroy America as we know it.Lets hope I am wrong

Do We Have a Crooked Government?

Sooner or later it will all come to light!

Chrysler's Railroad

This could be a scandal of epic proportions and one that makes Nixon's Watergate or  Clinton  's Monica Lewinsky affair pale by comparison. Why was there neither rhyme nor reason as to which dealerships of the Chrysler Corporation were to be closed?

Roll the clock back to the weeks just before Chrysler declared
bankruptcy. Chrysler, like GM, was in dire financial straits and the 
federal government "graciously" offered to "buy the company" and keep
them out of bankruptcy and "save jobs."

Chrysler was, in the words of Obama and his administration,  "Too big
to fail," same story with GM.

The feds organized their "Automotive Task Force" to fix Chrysler and
GM. Obama, in an act that is 100% unconstitutional, appointed a guy
named Steve Rattner to be the White House's official Car Czar -
literally, that's what his title is.

Rattner is the liaison between Obama, Chrysler, and GM.

Initially, the national media reported that Chrysler 'had made this
list of dealerships'. Not true!

The  Washington  Examiner, Newsmax, Fox News and a host of other news
agencies discovered that the list of dealerships was put together by
the "Automotive Task Force" headed by no one other than Mr. Steve
Rattner.

Now the plot thickens.

Remember earlier we said that there was neither rhyme nor reason why
certain dealerships were closed?

Actually there's a very interesting pattern as to who was closed down.
Again, on May 27, 2009, The  Washington  Examiner and Newsmax exposed
the connection.

Amazingly, of the 789 dealerships closed by the federal government,
788 had donated money, exclusively to Republican political causes,
while contributing nothing to Democratic political causes. The only
"Democratic" dealership on the list was found to have donated $7,700
to Hillary's campaign, and a bit over $2,000 to John Edwards. This
same dealership, reportedly, also gave $200.00 to Obama's campaign.

Does that seem a little odd to you?

Steve Rattner is the guy who put the list together. Well, he happens
to be married to a Maureen White. Maureen happens to be the former
national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee. As
such, she has access to campaign donation records from everyone in the
nation- Republican or Democrat. But of course, this is just a wacky
"coincidence," we're certain.

Then comes another really wacky "coincidence."

On that list of dealerships being closed down, a weird thing happened
in  Arkansas  , North Louisiana, and  Southern Missouri  . It seems that
Bill Clinton's former White House Chief of Staff, Mack McClarty, owns
a chain of dealership in that region, partnered with a fellow by the
name of Robert Johnson.

Johnson happens to be founder of Black Entertainment Television and
was a huge Obama supporter and financier.

These guys own a half dozen Chrysler stores under the company title of
RLJ-McClarty-Landers. Interestingly, none of their dealerships were
ordered closed - not one!

While all of their competing Chrysler/Dodge and Jeep dealership were!

Eight dealerships located near the dealerships owned by McClarty and
Johnson were ordered shut down. Thus by pure luck, these two major
Obama supporters now have virtual monopoly on Chrysler sales in their
zone.

Isn't that amazing?

Go look in The  Washington  Examiner, the story's there, and it's in a
dozen or so other web-based news organizations; this isn't being made
up.


Now if you thought Chrysler was owned by Fiat, you are mistaken. Under
the federal court ruling, 65% of Chrysler is now owned by the federal
government and the United Auto Workers union!

Fiat owns 20%.

The other 15% is still privately owned and presumably will be traded
on the stock market. Obama smiles and says he doesn't want to run the
auto industry.

As horrifying as this is to comprehend, and being as how this used to
be the  United States of America  , it would appear that the president has
the power to destroy private businesses and eliminate upwards of
100,000 jobs just because they don't agree with his political agenda.

This is Nazi  Germany  stuff, and it's happening right here, right now,
in our back yard.

There are voices in  Washington  demanding an explanation, but the
"Automotive Task Force" has released no information to the public or
to any of the senators demanding answers for what has been done.

Keep your ear to the ground for more on this story. If you've ever
wanted to make a difference about anything in your life, get on the
phone to your national senator or representative in the House and
demand an investigation into this.

Benjamin Franklin had it right when he said, "All that's necessary for
evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

Car Czar No More

An amazing thing happened as this story was going to press. Obama's
Car Czar, Steve Rattner, resigned on July 13 and was promptly replaced
by former steel workers union boss Ron Bloom.
According to CBS News, Rattner left "to return to private life and
spend time with his family."

Treasury Secretary  Tim Geithner said, "I hope that he takes another
opportunity to bring his unique skills to government service in the
future."

By the way, Rattner is under investigation for a multi-million dollar
pay-to-play investment bank scandal in  New York  ....

Uh-oh!

But, we're certain that had nothing to do with his resignation.

And, according to several news sources out there, there are rumors
he's being investigated for what could be pay-to-play scandal
involving the closing of Chrysler and GM dealerships. Really? Again,
that couldn't have anything to with his resignation-that's ridiculous!
Like CBS said, this guy just wants to "spend more quality time with
his family."

Obama has 32 personally appointed "czars" who answer to no one but
him, all of whom are acting without any Constitutional authority.

But hey, we're sure they all have "unique skills,".....as  Tim
Geithner likes to say!

SOOOOO.HOWS THE CHANGE WORKING FOR YOU?..

Check it out at the following websites.....

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Furor-grows-over-partisan-car-dealer-closings-46261447.html

<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-auto-policy-All-in-the-Democratic-family-44414452.html>;http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-auto-policy-All-in-the-Democratic-family-44414452.html

This goes beyond corruption in high places - to gross criminal actions
on the part of our government! I hope you will spread this far and
wide, and hopefully the taxpaying public will demand some of that
transparency we were promised......followed by criminal prosecution of
the perpetrators!

What a crooked government, we have!!!!!  Vote 'em all out...November, 2010!

Why is it no one Remembers Him?

Ever wondered why no one ever came forward from Obama's past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc. Not one person has ever come forward from his past. 
 

VERY, VERY STRANGE...

This should really be a cause for great concern.  To those who voted for him, you have elected the biggest unqualified fraud that America has ever known.  Sort of adds credence to the idea of The Manchurian Candidate thing happening here!

George Stephanopoulos, of ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign.  He too was a classmate of Obama's at Columbia class of 1984. He said he never had a single class with him.

While he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him? And, why won't he allow Columbia to release his records?

NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA!
Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him.

Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. EVER!  Nobody recalls him.

Root adds that he was also, like Obama, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that." Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was.  The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."

Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia , provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friend while at Columbia .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root#column-one

NOTE: Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School , then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major in the same class that Barack Hussein Obama was supposed to have been in.

Some Other Interesting Questions…

Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002? Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by Court Order?

It is circulating that according to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases. The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived.

No wonder all his records are sealed!

We must go on and continue sending these out to everyone. 


The Staff: Ever wonder why Obama has three different birth dates on legal documents?  

Australian Prime Minister does it again!!

This man should be appointed King of the World... Truer words have never been spoken.

  It took a lot of courage for this man to speak what he had to say for the world to hear.  The retribution could be phenomenal, but at least he was willing to take a stand on his and Australia 's beliefs.

 Whole world needs a leader like this!

Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks..
 
Separately, Rudd angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote:

 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.. Take It Or Leave It.
I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians. '

'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom'

'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!'

'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.'

'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.'

'This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.'

'If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.' 


The Staff: To bad our leader doesn't have the courage to say what most americans believe. We are NOT A MUSLIM Country not matter what Obama wants.

This is Coming if We Don't Stop the Spending

Current European tax rates:

United Kingdom     
  Income Tax:  50%    
    VAT:  17.5%   TOTAL:  67.5%

France     
  Income Tax:  40%    
    VAT:  19.6%   TOTAL:  59.6%

Greece     
  Income Tax:  40%    
    VAT:  25%      TOTAL:  65%

Spain     
  Income Tax:  45%    
   VAT:  16%      TOTAL:  61%

Portugal     
  Income Tax:  42%    
    VAT:  20%      TOTAL:  62%

Sweden     
  Income Tax:  55%    
    VAT:  25%      TOTAL:  80%

Norway     
  Income Tax:  54.3%    
    VAT:  25%      TOTAL:  79.3%

Netherlands     
  Income Tax:  52%    
    VAT:  19%      TOTAL:  71%

Denmark     
  Income Tax:  58%    
    VAT:  25%      TOTAL:  83%

Finland     
  Income Tax:  53%    
    VAT:  22%      TOTAL:  75%



If you've started to wonder what the real costs of socialism are going to be, once the full program in these United States hits your wallet, take a look at the table.  As you digest these mind-boggling figures, keep in mind that in spite of these astronomical tax rates, these countries are still not financing their social welfare programs exclusively from tax revenues!  They are deeply mired in public debt of gargantuan proportions.  Greece has reached the point where its debt is so huge it is in imminent danger of defaulting.  That is the reason the European economic community has intervened to bail them out.  If youre following the financial news, you know Spain and Portugal are right behind Greece.

The United States is now heading right down the same path.  The VAT tax in the table is the national sales tax that Europeans pay.  Stay tuned because that is exactly what you can expect to see the administration proposing after the fall elections.  The initial percentage in the United States isn’t going o be anywhere near the outrageous numbers you now see in Europe .

Guess what, the current outrageous numbers in Europe didn’t start out as outrageous either.&nbs ; They started out as miniscule right around the 1% or 2% where they will start out in the United States .  Magically however, they ran up over the years to where they are now.  Expect the same thing here. 


It is the notion that with hard work and perseverance, anybody can get ahead economically here.  Do you think that can ever happen with tax rates between 60% and 80%?  Think again.  With the government taking that percentage of your money, your life will be exactly like life in Europe .  You will never be able to buy a home.  You will never buy a car.  You will never send your children to college.  Lets not shuffle the battle cry of the socialists under the rug either.  Its always the same cry.  Equalize income.  Spread the wealth to the poor (whoever they are).  Level the economic playing field.  Accomplish that and everything will be rosy.


Its time to take a really hard look at reality.  Greece is a perfect
example.  Despite the socialism system that has ruled this country for
decades, with a 65% tax rate, they are drowning in public debt, would have defaulted without hundreds of billions in bailout money, and still. .. 20% of their population lives in poverty.  What has all that socialism money bought, besides ultimate power for the politicians running the show?  Do you think these people are "free"?  They're not.  They are slaves to their economic "system."

This is where we are going unless we throw the present Congress and Obama out.

Instead of spreading the wealth around, spread this around. It might wake some people up.

Are we stupid or what?

A Real Eye Opener
 The Facts are right in Front of us! 

BUT, no one wants to listen or read!

Can't blame all this on OBAMA. Bennett and Hatch either helped or were asleep.

WHY is  the USA BANKRUPT?
 You think the war in Iraq cost us too much? 
Read this:

Boy, was I confused. I was hammered with the propaganda that  the Iraq war and the war on terror that was 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 also 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://www.fairus.org/site  I was able to find and display this site 9-29-10.

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: www.cis.org/articles  I was able to find and display this site 9-29-10.


3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid  for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML  same site as above.


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  same site as above.


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  unable to display this site.


6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML unable to display this site.

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

Verify  at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML  unable to display this site.


9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify  at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC%20RI%20PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML  I have no idea why I   couldn't get CNN to display.


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%C2%A0   ditto.

11. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin.

Verify at: http://www/..rense.com/general75/niht.htm  unable to display this site.

12. 'The Dark Side of Illegal  Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .'
Verify at:

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The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A

YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME HAVING TROUBLE
UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY;

IT IS  $338,300,000,000.00

WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.

Are we THAT stupid? YES, FOR
LETTING THOSE IN THE U.S.CONGRESS GET AWAY WITH LETTING THIS HAPPEN YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!!

If this doesn't bother you then just forget the message. If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you tell it to every legal resident in the United  States.


The Staff: Does anyone notice that the CNN site can not or will not display all the information any longer?

History Lesson on Your Social Security Card

 

Yes, it o.k. to check out the snopes link below! http://www.snopes.com/politics/socialsecurity/changes.asp   History Lesson on Your Social Security Card Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn't know this. It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it.  Be sure and show it to your kids. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts!!! Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message was removed. Our Social Security Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program.   He promised:  1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary, (No longer Voluntary) 2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program, (Now 7.65% on the first $90,000)   3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year, (No longer tax deductible) 4.) That the money the participants put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, (Under Johnson the money was moved to The General Fund and spent) 5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income. (Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed) Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put away' -- you may be interested in the following: ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---- Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it? A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratically controlled House and Senate.  ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -- Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding? A: The Democratic Party. -------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----- Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities? A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the 'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the  US ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants? AND MY FAVORITE: A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it! ------------ -- ------------ --------- ----- ------------ --------- --------- Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away! And the worst part about it is  uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn't so. But it's worth a try. How many people can YOU send this to or tell about it? Actions speak louder than bumper stickers. AND Now,  CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES 100% RETIREMENT FOR ONLY SERVING ONE TERM!!!   Do Not VOTE for any Democrats during the 2 November election !!!!!!!!