WHY THE CUT IN U.S. SENIOR BENEFITS?
Here are 14 reasons why the US has to cut benefits to senior citizens. "Snopes" is provided for any doubters. I hope the following 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 the following facts.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Bank of America Credit Cards for Illegals
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1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
FAIR: : Immigration and Welfare
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.
Center for Immigration Studies
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Center for Immigration Studies
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!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP.../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.
CNN.com - Transcripts
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
CNN.com - Transcripts
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
CNN.com - Transcripts
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services b y the American taxpayers.
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.
CNN.com - Transcripts
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
CNN.com - Transcripts
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, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. 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."
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.o...eportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
Wooldridge - How Much Further Into This Nightmare?
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States".
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whooping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR !