Big Oil and their subsidies

Well once again the haves that want more try to discount their greedy pursuit of government hand outs before a Senate hearing.

They admitted...
Questioned about whether the tax breaks are essential to promote exploration, each executive admitted they are not but said the subsidies are similar to those enjoyed by other industries.

Seems simple enough.  If they want to act like children lets treat them as such.  Some Senator should have asked them after hearing this very lame excuse, "Well if your friends jumped off a bridge would you jump off the bridge too?"

In effect what they are saying is... no we don't NEED them but a few extra billion, at whose ever expense is a nice thing to have, but do we need them?  Well you know they are nice and we like them but you know...

What a crock.  Why even ask?  And you know their bought and paid for Senators then try and lamely attempt to make economically indefensible excuses ala  Orin Hatch.  No wonder most Americans hate government the way it works.

They see themselves as working their tails off and these fat cats come to town and act indignant that there should be even a question of continuing these 1930s subsidies.  Hmmm and no questions of how they came to the Capitol like the beating the auto execs took for coming to DC on private corporate jets?  Why not?

Next I am certain the RepubliCants will blame the poor for being poor and give corporations all they want and ask for and more.  Because god knows when you give to the greedy never satified rich it always trickles down to us common working folk who should be happy with what ever left overs are still on the table.

Trickle down economics... or as my grandfather used to say, " Don't piss down my leg and tell me it's raining."

By the way, Oil is at $100 a barrel and to bring oil to the surface, about 28 bucks a barrel.

The costs of Illegal Imigration

Bankruptcy 101

ALL OF THIS INFORMATION IS VARIFIED.  A MUST READ!!!

Here are some interesting statistics!

With all the talk about Social Security and Medicare going broke,  and school districts

not having enough money,  and many Hospital going bankrupt,   as well as State after State

going broke!  Read the attached and you judge for yourself….

  

It's easy to dismiss individual programs that benefit non-citizens until they're put together

and this picture emerges. Someone did a lot of research to put together all of this data.

Often these programs are buried within other programs making them difficult to find.  

A Real Eye Opener   ...   

WHY is the USA BANKRUPT?

You think the wars are costing us too much?  Read this : 

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/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8 < http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8> 

2.    $22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

Verify 

at:  http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML < http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML> 

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.  

Verify at:  

http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML < 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!

Verify 

at:  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt..0.HTML < 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.

Verify 

at  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML < http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML> 

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

Verify at:  

http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML < http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML> 

http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML < http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML> < http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML < http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML>  >  

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

Verify  at:  http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML < http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML>  < http://transcripts/ < http://transcripts/>  .. cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML%3E < ;;

8.$90  Billion Dollars a year is spent onillegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.

Verify 

at:  http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML < 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.

Verify 

at:  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC  RI  PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML  < http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC%20RI%20PTS/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 non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the U.S. 

Verify  

at:  http://transcripts.cnn..com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML < http://transcripts.cnn..com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML>

11.During the year of 2005, there were 4to 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 US from the Southern border.

Verify  at:  Homeland Security   Report:

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.

Verify 

at:  http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute..org/PDF/deportation.PDF < http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute..org/PDF/deportationPDF> 

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

Verify  at:  http://www/.  < http://www/..rense.com/general75/niht.htm>    rense.com/general75/niht.htm < 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 .  

Verify  at:   

http: //  www.drdsk.com/articleshtml < http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml>   

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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 delete the message.  If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the United States ..

The Dirty Secrets About Our Wars

America has purchased our wars at a high price.  Next time you hear a politician speak about "big government," ask him if he means the tens of thousands of contractors we have conducting our wars for us. Ask him at what cost have we given war fighting to private business.  In Iraq private contractors protect our diplomats.  In Afghanistan over 100 thousand contractors perform all manner of work and war that most Americans would think was done by our military.

These contractors and their contracts cost the American tax payer tens of billions of dollars.  Is this the capitalism we think of when we think of our free market system?  We have 100 thousand American troops of every stripe in theater plus all these contractors.  When is enough enough?  Our money and our might consume these small countries where we find ourselves.  Our presence by its very nature corrupts the culture and twists economic activity in an unhealthy way.

Yet we persist with pretence that we are doing good and if we leave... No, the mere thought we might leave, throws the whole world out of whack.  We must begin to lift the vale of our belief in our inherent goodness and see what we have wrought for what it is.