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« on: February 08, 2010, 01:47:56 PM »

From : TONY PARISE <tpcpar@hotmail.com>
To : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject : FW: California
Date : Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:19:02 +0000

Subject: Fw: California]

The Mexicans are breaking our financial back. It's outrageous that it continues. This so called illegal immigration is just a euphamism for an invasion. Our political leaders have absolutely no courage to face this problem. We should let them know we are watching. We got enough shortastops.

IT’S ALL OUR OWN FAULT…..NONE OF US SAY OR DO ANYTHING!
 
WE’LL READ THIS AND SAY THIS IS TERRIABLE…..AND THAT’LL BE THE END OF IT, THEN SEND ANOTHER CHECK TO PAY FOR OTHERS TAXES.
 
 Fw: California
 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:46:00 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
 
Could it be one reason California is in such bad financial trouble?

Don't miss your favorite House speaker at the bottom.
If there ever was a time for our voices to be heard NOW IS THE TIME..
This is only one State...............If this doesn't open eyes, nothing will!

From the L. A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people)are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.

2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.

4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.

8 Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.

10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
(There are 10.2 million people in L. A... County . )

(All 10 of the above facts were published in the Los Angeles Times)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States ' annual population growth(and over 90% of California , Florida , and New York ) results from immigration... 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens .

We are fools for letting this continue

HOW CAN YOU HELP ?

Send copies of this letter to at least two other people. 100 would be even better...

This is only one State...............

If this doesn't open your eyes nothing will, and you wonder why Nancy Pelosi wants them to become voters!

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LET'S IMPEACH HER NOW BEFORE SHE DOES FURTHER DAMAGE!! WHAT AN IDIOT!!
IF YOU DON'T AGREE JUST DELETE--IF YOU DO--PASS IT ON!! WHERE DO WE GET THESE MORONS'

Windfall Tax on Retirement Income
Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That's what the Speaker of the House is saying. Read below...............
Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren't going to believe this.
Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds! Alas, it is true - all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!
This woman is frightening.
She quotes......' We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Marx say something like this?), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.' (I am not rich, are you?)
When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:
'We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as 'Americans'.'
(Read that quote again and again and let it sink in.) 'Lower your retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it'.

Send it on to your friends. I just did!! This lady is out of her mind and she is the speaker of the house!
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2010, 03:05:51 PM »

Snopes.com has an article on a similar e-mail with the same stats from a few years ago:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/taxes.asp
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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2010, 10:48:41 PM »

Snopes.com has an article on a similar e-mail with the same stats from a few years ago:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/taxes.asp

Interesting.  My experience with snopes is that they are pro power elite status quo (i.e. biased).  The fact that snopes was forced to agree as much as they did in their article means that there definitely is a problem that needs to be solved.  Also, snopes did not address Pelosi's windfall tax on retirement income or her claimed "justifications" for it, which, by far, is my greatest concern here.
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« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2010, 12:08:11 PM »

For what it's worth, Snopes has a separate article on the Windfall Profits Tax, which it deemed false:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/pelosi/windfall.asp

And for those who don't like snopes, here's factcheck.org's say on the matter:
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/print_did_pelosi_advocate_taxing_windfall_stock_profits.html

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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2010, 12:09:58 PM »

I think we're safe on that one, quoting factcheck.org:
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None of the supposed Pelosi quotes appears in any news source we were able to find in an extensive search of news databases, nor do they show up in archives of mainstream conservative commentators. Had Pelosi really advocated taxing the retirement accounts of thousands of American workers and giving the proceeds to “illegal immigrants,” one would imagine that Rush Limbaugh might have mentioned that.
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« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2010, 02:18:04 PM »

I think we're safe on that one, quoting factcheck.org:
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None of the supposed Pelosi quotes appears in any news source we were able to find in an extensive search of news databases, nor do they show up in archives of mainstream conservative commentators. Had Pelosi really advocated taxing the retirement accounts of thousands of American workers and giving the proceeds to “illegal immigrants,” one would imagine that Rush Limbaugh might have mentioned that.

At this point, regarding this issue, I would tend to agree.  However, with the fraud that calls itself our public government, you just never know.  An excellent example is the Obamacare fiasco that Pelosi and others tried to push through.  Unfortunately, the disinformation creeps who create false emails like this don't help either.
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« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2010, 01:34:59 PM »

Here's an interesting tidbit regarding the Obamacare fiasco: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/health/policy/12pharma.html
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« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2010, 12:37:43 AM »

Another interesting set of tidbits showing attornies at work behind the scenes no less:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031103144.html?hpid=topnews  (ref "...Senate Republicans said Thursday that they had been informed by the chamber's parliamentarian that the bill must be signed into law before the Senate could take up the fixes...")

http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Rules_and_Procedure_vrd.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentarian_of_the_United_States_Senate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Frumin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dove
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« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2010, 01:40:18 PM »

It looks like something did slip through with the Obamacare fiasco after all: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/04/26/costly-irs-mandate-slipped-into-health-bill/
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