This is astounding and infuriating.  Why isn't this in the papers?  Please read and pass it on.
  
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.    
 
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
 
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. 

Verify at: 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
 
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
 
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 
 
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal  aliens.
 
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/ TRANSCRIPTS/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
 
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.

Verify at: 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 
 
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   
 
Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.HTML
 
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.
 
Verify at: 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.'
 
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/PDF/deportation.PDF
 
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries  of origin. 
 
Verify at:  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  
 
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 country including every elected representative in Washington, D.C. - five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.