Email from Mike
TOP-10 “ONLY IN AMERICA”
OBSERVATIONS – BY A CANADIAN*
1) Only in America could the rich people – who pay 86% of all income taxes – be
accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any
income taxes at all.
2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates
against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney
General, and roughly 18% of the federal work-force is black while only 12% of
the population is black.
3) Only in America could they have had the two people most responsible for our
tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles
Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax
cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
4) Only in America can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah
and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by
the backlash.
5) Only in America would they make people who want to legally become American
citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of
dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the
country illegally just ‘magically’ become American citizens.
6) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and
sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as “extremists.”
7) Only in America could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check
or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
8) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil
companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the
return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less
than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).
9) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the
people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more
than it has per year – for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and
complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough money.
10) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a
$35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.
