Nurturing democracy ‘on the cheap’
Posted by Conservative Soldier on April 9, 2008
Everytime Sen. Barack Hussein Obama spews his contemptible campaign trail rhetoric opposing the Battle of the Ages being waged in cities and villages across Iraq by courageous patriots, American and Iraqi alike, he often refers to the cost of this war on terror. He even dares to suggest to his spongelike masses that the cost of war hits them directly in their pocketbooks, and that it is crippling the American economy.
If BHO is truly concerned about the U.S. economy, I suggest he review a list that is appearing in credible forums across the blogosphere. Here it is.
Fourteen initiatives that cost more than the war in Iraq:
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1. $11 billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 billion 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 a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 billion a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and … they can not speak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
5. $17 billion 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 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 a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
9. $200 billion 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 is 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 U.S. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were four to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border. Also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens come 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 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/articles.html#Illegals
Total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!
