All of this is very true! Thanks for sharing Bill.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Only in America > > > This is Canada 's Top Ten List of America 's Stupidity. Of course > we look like idiots … because we are. > > 10) Only in America .. could politicians talk about the greed of the rich > at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event. > > 9) Only in America .. could people claim that the government still > discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a > black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black > while only 14% of the population is black. 40+% of all federal entitlements > goes to black Americans – 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that > go to Hispanics! > > 8) Only in America .. could they have had the two people most responsible > for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) > and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn > out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes. > > 7) Only in America .. can they have terrorists kill people in the name of > Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be > harmed by the backlash. > > 6) Only in America ... would they make people who want to legally become > American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of > thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone > who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American > citizens. > > 5) Only in America .. could the people who believe in balancing the budget > and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists." > > 4) Only in America ... could you need to present a driver's license to > cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote. > 3) Only in America ... could people demand the government investigate > whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went > up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon > Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike). > > 2) Only in America .. could the government collect more tax dollars from > the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion > dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER > MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money. > > 1) Only in America .. could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income > taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay > any income taxes at all. > > > > > > > > > > = > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
