Why We Are Bankrupt

A friend sent me this, and I thought it was worth passing on. It's definitely food for thought. You can check out the links for verification of the statements.

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:

Boy, was 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 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 acts.

• $11 Billion to $22 Billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
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• $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
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• $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
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• $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally who cannot speak a word of English!
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• $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
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• $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
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• 30 percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
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• $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & Social Services by the American taxpayers.
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• $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
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• The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are likely to create a huge additional crime problem in the US.
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• During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 milion 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.
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• The National policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230Billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46Billion annually over a five year period.
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• In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45Billion in remittances to their countries of origin.
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The total cost is a whopping $338.3 Billion Dollars a year. Talk about stimulus money — How much of our failing infrastructure could that fix every years and how many jobs would that create?