Blame Failures on UnDocumented Workers, NOT Right Wing Wars
The Fascists are the Fungus Among Us
The Wars are Cheap. It is Illegal Immigrants and Domestic Programs driving the National deficits upward. This is the message making its way across the right-wing illusion of what American should be – a fascist-racist state.
Is Iraq War and the War on Terror bankrupting us? I now find that to be RIDICULOUS!
That is the jest of this chain email message now making its way across the Right-wing, White power, anti-Immigration network. It is not the billions wasted on the wars that killed or is killing our national economy and adding to our National Deficit – it is the billions wasted on Illegal Immigrants.
We will not debate billions being wasted on Illegal Immigrants, others can fight that battle, and we agree with throwing the bums of both parties OUT. However to focus selectively on Illegal Immigration and downplay the bloated Defense Budget which is twice the amount wasted in comparison to immigration is ludicrous.
The right-wing spin machine notes that about $338.3 billion is being wasted on everything related to Illegal Immigration while conveniently leaving out THE FACT that the amount wasted on Illegal Immigration is only about HALF the Defense Budget for FY 2010 that came to $663.8 billion.
An email with talking points is making its way around the right-wing politicos, and not necessarily Republican. The Republican breakaway Tea Party, Constitutionalists, and such do have one thing in common with the Republican Party despite claims to throw out the Republican bums now in Congress.
In response to what the Right wing knows will become a political issue come November 2010 – THE WARS – is the American people’s war weariness and billions wasted on the occupation of Iraq and War on Terror, their Ultra-Conservative strategy is to claim that the wars are affordable and that it is social programs used by Illegal Immigrants that are bankrupting America.
The message is also chuck full of racism and anti-immigration innuendo. It’s obvious that the Peace Movement must join hands with the Immigration Reform Movement in preparation for the clashes that will come.
Without addressing exactly how much the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost, plus leaving the last eight years of the Bush administration in the dust of history, Right wingers now claim that the wars have not and are not bankrupting America.
Translation: Cut social programs but continue the wars, remember this next time someone asks you to vote for Ron Paul. Given Paul is a window dressing Republican and a wannabe Libertarian, he ran on a message of ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of Libertarian party platform, but can anyone from the right be trusted to do that. NOPE!
The answer is simple if a Presidential candidate [Obama] painted every demonizing color and with the liberal label cannot get us out of Iraq or Afghanistan what makes us think anyone from the right-wing is going to do so unless they have no other choice, the American public forces and exit strategy, or our troops simply stop deploying or fighting wars that the vast majority of Americans do not support.
This email was sent to me blind copy by a former business associate who either knows that I’m Pro-Peace and wanted to aggravate me or still thinks I’m a Republican. I don’t discourage such messages for I’m all for throwing the bums in both parties out, and on that we can agree. However, when twisting the billions wasted by the Pentagon and war profiteers to be an insignificant expenditure that do no harm to our national deficit is ludicrous.
Anyway with the November elections right around the corner, reader be prepared to be bombarded with right-wing spin convincing those of us who can still THINK that it is not WARS that cost so much but domestic programs or Obama’s socialism that doesn’t exists but in racists minds.
Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired, VT News Network
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this: A Right wing view of America’s economic meltdown.
What you will be reading below has been going on for many years and by both Parties. So if we don’t wise up and vote out all the incumbents on both sides we will be enslaved for the rest of our lives and also for our children and Grandchildren.
SO LET’S WISE UP AND DO IT THIS FALL. TWO ELECTIONS AND WE WILL HAVE ELIMINATED MOST OF THE DEAD BEATS ON THE HILL, IN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE.
WHY ARE WE BANKRUPT?
Informative, and mind boggling!
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 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. Fact Check
The reliable source used by the right-wing is the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). FAIR is an Anti-Immigration advocacy group PERIOD meaning they are not only anti-illegal immigrant, but anti-Immigration period to include a crack down on legal immigration.
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. Fact Check
The above reliable right-wing link comes from the Center for Immigration Studies, another right-wing think tank similar to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Again note the emphasis is not only on illegal immigration but a crack down on legal immigration as well.
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Fact Check
Ditto above, the CIS is a right-wing think tank totally against immigration in any form except of course selective immigration quotas you can bet are based on the immigrant being white.
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! Fact Check A broken link!
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Fact Check
This source is from CNN right-wing propagandist Lou Dobbs one of a few anti-immigration instigators while others of course can be found on Fox, Shaun Hannity, and of course the master – Rush Limbaugh.
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Fact Check Another broken link!
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Fact Check
Same biased data from Lou Dobbs’ instigation report.
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. Fact Check Yet another broken link!
9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Fact Check
Yep, another broken link, these folks need to provide stronger evidence than BROKEN LINKS to source data. Point: broken links frankly prove NOTHING!
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 US. Fact Check
From the same Lou Dobbs right-wing propaganda show on CNN.
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. Fact Check at Homeland Security Report. Yet another BROKEN LINK!
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. Fact Check
The National Policy Institute is a White People’s Rights think tank based out of Augusta, GA. Their racial theme is that white America is an endangered species. And we quote:
“White Americans have been led to believe that “diversity” and “multiculturalism” are sacred. We’re conditioned to be shy when it comes to standing up for our own beliefs. But doesn’t every race, ethnic subculture, and special interest—from left-handers to lesbians—have all sorts of organizations working for them? Isn’t it about time someone spoke for us? It’s not just the minority lobby who opposes our interests while advancing their own: even America’s white leaders—conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats—routinely push for policies that disadvantage their own [WHITE] people.”
Is it any wonder that the Anti-Immigration Movement is spear headed by the KKK and other White Supremacists groups and white militia movement?
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin. Fact Check
We are amazed that they even use a left of center source, The Rense Report, to make a point.
14. ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States. Fact Check
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 [WHITE] CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.
VT Editorial Comment
by Bobby Hanafin, VT
What these selective talking points fail to mention is that even taking away the Right wing spin of this message the total cost of $338.3 billion is about HALF the Defense Budget for FY 2010 that came to $663.8 billion. http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12652
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.
Not sure why anyone wants US to forward this to every legal resident (meaning Green Card holder) when the bulk of sources used come from organizations who want to crack down on ALL IMMIGRATION!!!
Readers are more than welcome to use the articles I’ve posted on Veterans Today, I’ve had to take a break from VT as Veterans Issues and Peace Activism Editor and staff writer due to personal medical reasons in our military family that take away too much time needed to properly express future stories or respond to readers in a timely manner.
My association with VT since its founding in 2004 has been a very rewarding experience for me.
Retired from both the Air Force and Civil Service. Went in the regular Army at 17 during Vietnam (1968), stayed in the Army Reserve to complete my eight year commitment in 1976. Served in Air Defense Artillery, and a Mechanized Infantry Division (4MID) at Fort Carson, Co. Used the GI Bill to go to college, worked full time at the VA, and non-scholarship Air Force 2-Year ROTC program for prior service military. Commissioned in the Air Force in 1977. Served as a Military Intelligence Officer from 1977 to 1994. Upon retirement I entered retail drugstore management training with Safeway Drugs Stores in California. Retail Sales Management was not my cup of tea, so I applied my former U.S. Civil Service status with the VA to get my foot in the door at the Justice Department, and later Department of the Navy retiring with disability from the Civil Service in 2000.
I’ve been with Veterans Today since the site originated. I’m now on the Editorial Board. I was also on the Editorial Board of Our Troops News Ladder another progressive leaning Veterans and Military Family news clearing house.
I remain married for over 45 years. I am both a Vietnam Era and Gulf War Veteran. I served on Okinawa and Fort Carson, Colorado during Vietnam and in the Office of the Air Force Inspector General at Norton AFB, CA during Desert Storm. I retired from the Air Force in 1994 having worked on the Air Staff and Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon.
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