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What if?
gearheaddad
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God forbid that this will ever happen, but what if some kind of law was passed where we were forced to surrender our guns, would the Feds pay us a "fair" price for them? Yeah, I know, they're not getting mine, either, but, "what if?"
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What if the same Congress and President pass the "USA Patriot Act II?"
What if we're stuck between the Democrats wanting to take away our rights and the Republicans wanting to take away our rights? What then, ladies and gentlemen?
If any one has any ideas that they don't mind sharing, please do so.
What if you're right?
And he was just another nice guy
What if you're right?
What if it's true?
They say the cross will only make a fool of you
And what if it's true?
What if he takes his place in history
With all the prophets and the kings
Who taught us love and came in peace
But then the story ends
What then?
But what if you're wrong?
What if there's more?
What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for?
What if you jump?
And just close your eyes?
What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise?
What if He's more than enough?
What if it's love?
What if you dig
Way down deeper than your simple-minded friends
What if you dig?
What if you find
A thousand more unanswered questions down inside
That's all you find?
What if you pick apart the logic
And begin to poke the holes
What if the crown of thorns is no more
Than folklore that must be told and retold?
You've been running as fast as you can
You've been looking for a place you can land for so long
But what if you're wrong?
Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a
Column titled, 'Mexican Visitor's Lament' -- 10/25/07.
She interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while
Visiting Denver last week. Hernandez said, 'They (illegal aliens) pay rent,
Buy groceries, buy clothes... What Happens to your country's economy if 20
Million people go away?' That's a good question - it deserves an answer.
Over 80 percent of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration
Stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America?
The answers may surprise you!
In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico, it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominant language again.
In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and grand-kids - would move back 'home', mostly to Mexico. That would save Coloradans an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 billion) annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration costs. It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone.
Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals.
Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67 percent drop-out/flunk-out rate because of thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our gridlocked cities in Colorado.
Denver's four percent unemployment rate would vanish as our working
Poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
In Florida, 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State back to America, the rule of law, and English
In Chicago, Illinois, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free experience.
If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home' -- If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home', the U.S. Economy would return to the rule of law Employers would hire legal American citizens at a living wage. Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they wouldn't be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 Billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local, state and city coffers.
No more push '1' for Spanish or '2' for English. No more confusion
In American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages that
Degrade the educational system for American kids. Our overcrowded schools
Would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in
ESL and free breakfasts and lunches
We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who
Distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country.
In cities like LA., 20,000 members of the '18th Street Gang' would
Vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from
Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!
Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American deaths by illegal aliens!
America's economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers get rich. Over $80 billion annually wouldn't return to the aliens' home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America's economy - which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt.
At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California, Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupt out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act.
Americans wouldn't suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country-brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders.
Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities. It would also put the 'progressives' on the horns of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11 percent of our greenhouse gases.
Over one million of Mexico's poorest citizens now live inside and along our border from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California in what the New York Times called, 'colonias' or new neighborhoods. Trouble is, those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, electricity, roads or any kind of sanitation. The New York Times reported them to be America's new 'Third World' inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonias. (I've seen them personally in Texas and Arizona; it's sickening beyond anything you can imagine.) By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico.
We should invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own countries and/or make a better life in Mexico. We already invite a million people into our country legally more than all other countries combined annually. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy within our borders and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation. It's time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our way of life.
Interesting Statistics. Here are 14 reasons illegal aliens should vacate America, and I hope they are forwarded over and over again until they
are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them:
1. $11 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare
to illegal aliens. http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 billion dollars are spent each year on food assistance
programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal
aliens. http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal
aliens. http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary
school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of
English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
5. $17 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars PER DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal
aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for
welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are
caused by the illegal aliens.
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.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year 2005, there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our southern border with 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.
http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, estimates 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.org/publications.php?b=deportation
13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances
back to their countries of origin. http://www.rensecom/general75/niht.htm
14. The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex
crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!'
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!!
If this doesn't bother you, then just delete the message.
Otherwise, forward this to everyone you know!
I also read that the unions say they will not make any concessions to help.
I was thinking that if I were an employee of the "Big 3", would I be willing to take a 5 or 10% pay cut in order to keep my job and benefits? If it was only temporary, until if and when things turn around for the auto industry, I sure think I would do it. I realize we all want to make as much money as we can, but it seems a shame with so many out of work they wouldn't want to help themselves and keep their jobs. Also, would a 5 to 10% paycut from the very top to bottom be enough to save the auto industry? I wonder!
What if on the day I went to the gunshop to pick up the FAL,the AK,and the Thompson[all loaded before put in the truck}some punks had decided to carjack me or some other equally stupid thing.
I know someone is thinking I would be the stupid one for carrying 90 rounds loaded in the dreaded assault rifles. I also had 7 in the Colt and 14 in the Glock. It's an old habit of mine.I don't see much point in an unloaded gun.Only the pistols had rounds in the tubes.
Imagine if I'd been pulled over at a safety check.That's what they do around here to look for drunk drivers.Every vehicle is stoppped and checked.
That would have been hilarious.
Big Daddy my heros have always been cowboys,they still are it seems
What have we allowed to happen to our Republic?
I think it hits the nail on the head and funny[:D][}:)]
+1
Pearl Harbor is the direct result of following page one from the Gun Broker playbook: Threats and intimidation will actually scare people into doing what we want.
"Mister President (FDR), it is not a good idea to move the fleet from the west coast. Pearl Harbor is a death trap. The channel is narrow and shallow and maneuvering room is severely limited. In addition; Hawaii is at the end of a very long supply chain and if anything were to happen it would take weeks to bring in equipment by ship. On top of that, Hawaii is vulnerable to air attack because we have nowhere near the numbers of land based planes needed to maintain an air cap. The Japanese can strike from any direction. We know it can be done because for ten years the Navy has held training attacks on the Army air defenses at Pearl Harbor, and we were always successful. I strongly advise you reconsider".
"Nonsense Admiral Richardson (who was the actual commander of the Pacific Fleet). We need to scare the Japanese so badly that they'll not only pull out of China, old Tojo will come hat in hand begging me for a non aggression pact. The best way to do this is to show overwhelming force. All that these people understand (page two of the GB agenda playbook) is FORCE and the best way to do it is to project naval power and this is why the Fleet must be moved to Pearl Harbor ASAP"!
Oh yes, the Japanese were truly terrified. The result of FDR's intimidation was a speech he later gave before the Congress which began, "Yesterday, December Seventh, 1941...
Everyone know yesterday was March 4th, not December 7th. [;)]
Pretty silly. Sad thing is how many GB'ers believe GB APPROVED GROUP THINK as if it were carved in stone.
What makes you ignorant * liberals think that every time someone says something bad about Obama that they're a republican?? Many of us out here hated Bush almost as much as we do that idiot in the white house now!!
quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
Pretty silly. Sad thing is how many GB'ers believe GB APPROVED GROUP THINK as if it were carved in stone.
What makes you ignorant * liberals think that every time someone says something bad about Obama that they're a republican?? Many of us out here hated Bush almost as much as we do that idiot in the white house now!!
Not a liberal.
Did not call you a Republican.
Didn't like Bush either, his announcement for the Presidency is what finally made up my mind to quit the Republican Party and be an independent. So yes I know plenty of other conservatives who disliked Bush.
Just the same, when liberals came out with all this insulting crap it pissed me off. All this insulting behavior does nothing to work any problem, address any issue, it all just makes life tougher for both sides:
All just so much useless noise.