And people complain about Iraq? Your thoughts?

[petesusn]

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/fiscalexec.html

3 $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal alie ns. 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% perc ent 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://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 legal 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 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 billio n o r 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!!!


Snopes is provided for doubters:

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

Social Security Change For 2008

The United States Senate voted to extend Social Security Benefits to Illegal Aliens beginning in 2008. The following are the senators who voted to giv e illegal aliens Social Security benefits. They are grouped by home stat e. If a state is not listed, there was no voting representative.
&nbs p; Alabama senators DID NOT vote for this raid on Social Security benefits!
Alaska: Stevens (R)
Arizona : McCain (R) (Flooded with illegal aliens every day!) (and wants t o be president and oversee a bankrupt social security program
Arkansas : Lincoln (D) Pryor (D)
California : Boxer (D) Feinstein (D) (State is going bankrupt and they still support illegals!)
Colorado : Salazar (D)
Connecticut : Dodd (D) Lieberman (D)
Delaware : Biden (D) Carper (D)
Florida : Martinez (R)
Hawaii : Akaka (D) Inouye (D)
Illinois : Durbin (D) Obama (D) (And Obama wants to be president and oversee a bankrupt Social Security System)< /U>
Indiana : Bayh (D) Lugar (R)
Iowa : Harkin (D)
Kansas : Bro wnback (R)
Louisiana : Landrieu (D)
Maryland : Mikulski (D) Sarbanes (D)
Massachusetts : Kennedy (D) Kerry (D)
Montana : Baucus (D)
Nebraska : Hagel (R)
Nevada : Reid (D)
New Jersey : Lautenberg (D) Menendez (D)
New Mexico : Bingaman (D)
New York : Clinton (D) Schumer (D) (ditto for Clinton from the Obama comment above!!)
North Dakota : Dorgan (D)
Ohio: DeWine (R) Voinovich(R)
Oregon : Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania : Specter (R)
Rhode Island : Chafee (R) Reed (D)
South Carolina : Graham (R)
South Dakota : Johnson (D)
Vermont : Jeffords (I) Leahy (D)
Washington : Cantwell (D) Murray (D)
West Virginia : Rockefeller (D), by Not Voting
Wisconsin</ U> : Feingold (D) Kohl (D)
Just for the sake of argument...what war crimes would that be?
jimmyd----...I can't thank you enough for your service. So from one vet (Vietnam/Gulf1) to another...WELCOME HOME
[email protected] for the kind words

 

[oldmarine08]

Add to that $480 Billlion a year we spend in foreign aide and

 

[jimmyd]

Your question is posed in a direct and accurate statement based on fact....very refreshing to see the truth in absolute fact.
Also (as an Iraqi war vet myself) I see money being spent for better progress over there where there was no democracy, and less progress over here for the money spent where there is a democracy.

And as far as our answerer 'ridge 63' with the "war crimes" comment, you don't know what you're talking about unless you see the;

Water purification plants
Hospitals
Sewers
Electrical power plants
Schools
Parks...........and...........
Kids finally out playing with their friends outside instead of hiding indoors, and everything else we are building over there for them (you know, the stuff that broadcast news never shows).
I have to state that you have no idea of what you're talking about, and that your answer is based on third hand information without getting your hands dirty doing some work in Iraq. Try going over there to volunteer if you feel so strongly about the issue instead of getting your professional military intelligence from your armchair in front of a TV.

 

[ridge63]

I think the money that has been wasted in Iraq on a war that should never have been fought, one half trillion dollars and counting would have been better spent on securing our borders. I also think Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and others should be locked up for the rest of their lives for the war crimes they have committed.