To the editor:The money we pay in taxes is there to pay the expenses of operating the government within the bounds of the Constitution. Instead, our politicians are using it to buy votes by giving away benefits welfare, health care, etc. from the public trough. In doing so they appear to be caring and concerned, but the real motivation is to build their own personal power base, assure their own re-election and heighten their chances of moving to a higher office. The Obama plan supported by the Democrats who don’t dare object because that would be political suicide to expand the tentacles of government is to make more of us dependent on government for our existence control over the proletariat. Where did we ever get the idea that the government had the obligation or the authority to bail out private businesses, take over the control of banks and manufacturers, and even approve the pay their executives receive?The usurped, unconstitutional and unrestricted assumption of authority by this administration has reached proportions never experienced in this country. It runs counter to the principles and practices that made the prosperity of this country the envy of the world. Left unchecked the dictates of this government will become so burdensome and restrictive we will reach a point in which the sheer cost and the individual freedoms we lose along the way will be beyond our ability to pay for or reverse. When that occurs, who’s going to pull the wagon when everyone wants to ride?DIANA ARENDTFlagstaff

via azdailysun.com Letters.

WHAT AN EYE OPENER!!!

Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal

Here is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the State of California or any other state…

You have 2 families…”Joe Legal” and “Jose Illegal”. Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California .

Joe Legal” works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted….”Jose Illegal”
also works in construction, has “NO” Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash “under the table”.

Joe Legal…$25.00 per hour x 40 hours $1000.00 per week, $52,000 per year Now take 30% away for state federal tax Joe Legal now has $31,231.00

Jose Illegal…$15.00 per hour x 40 hours $600.00 per week, $31,200.00 per year Jose Illegal pays no taxes… Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00

Joe Legal pays Medical and Dental Insurance with limited coverage $1000.00 per month $12,000.00 per year Joe Legal now has $19,231.00

Jose Illegal has full Medical and Dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00

Joe Legal makes too much money is not eligible for Food Stamps or welfare Joe Legal pays for food $1,000.00 per month $12,000.00 per year Joe Legal now has $ 7,231.00

Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for Food Stamps and Welfare Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00

Joe Legal pays rent of
$1,000..00 per month $12,000.00 per year Joe Legal is now in the hole minus (-) $4,769.00

Jose Illegal receives a $500 per month Federal rent subsidy Jose Illegal pays rent $500.00 per month $6,000.00 per year Jose Illegal still has $25,200.00

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.

Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal’s and Jose Illegal’s children both attend the same school.
Joe Legal pays for his children’s lunches while Jose Illegal’s children get a government sponsored lunch. Jose Illegal’s children have an

after school ESL program. Joe Legal’s children go home.

Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.

WAKE UP AMERICA before it’s to late ….

Bill Press makes the argument that Talk Radio has been forced to have a right wing bent and is only allowed because of a mafioso organization forcing the stupid citizens to listen to it when they would be much better served listening to garbage from “progressives”.

The fact is that nobody wants to listen to the whining drivel that emanates from most liberal shows. He says it himself that there are successful shows in a few markets but they are apparently not smart enough to duplicate the successful shows in other markets and grab the imaginations of their listeners with their “winning” ideology.

This means they have to mooch from the government to “level the playing field” since they are not talented, smart or whatever excuse is holding them back from the success they so crave but aren’t able to achieve without the assistance of a higher power.

Hmmm… being the birthday of Darwin and all, natural selection… evolution or whatever you want to call it would seem to apply here in the marketplace of ideas. Why not let it work instead of appealing to your liberal deity?

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 <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 <http://ww w.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!!!!!

It is sad that in our country many people look at tragedy as a meal ticket. Our tort society seems to think that there should be no bumps and bruises, but if there are, someone should pay even if no fault exists other than an act of nature.

Unfortunate things happen. US Airways has done a marvelous job taking care of the passengers of that miraculous flight. Why then must greedy mooching lawyers convince otherwise decent people that they have been harmed by a big entity that should pay out for trauma and suffering. For God’s sake these people still draw breath because US Airways invested in people, who when the time came, were able to act appropriately and save all on board from a far worse outcome.

Jane Chastain