A little over one year ago we here in America had the opportunity to vote. We were told by those on the left that we had voted for change.

People on this site love to point out where America was when Bush took over, conveniently disregarding the fact that we were in an economic downturn brought on by the burst of the tech bubble and we were already fighting rising gas prices, otherwise why would Bush have even mentioned it as an issue.

Well let's look at the results of that change sine then but first let's remember where we were as a country:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon and it keeps going up
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase)
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses)
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and by God we got it!

Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.
 
Quote of the Day..."My friends, we live in the greatest nation in
the history of the world.  I hope you'll join with me as we try to change
it." - Barack Obama

Let's move on to some specifics...

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.

 www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
Taxes under Clinton 1999                  Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400          Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000        Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250        Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800      Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000      Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750    Married making 125K - tax $31,250

And yes, if you make more money you save more money, as you should because you are paying more in taxes to start off with.

Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates... Oh Goody, even more reason for the liberals to love them.

It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.

PART 3:
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:
"Boy am 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 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.htm
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 Bi llion dollar s 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/TRANSCRIPTS/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 mariju ana, 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 back 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. "

I don't know the name of the suthor but we have all seen these facts before. Many of you here at VONA have done your best to dispute them, but damn... they are the real deal. As Obama said, "I mean it".
 
But what would I know; I'm just an Average American.

PS. Many thanks to the group who put this information together. You know who you are.