Forwarded to me by a friend. So sad.
Merle
Only in America---Top Ten
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> 1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich
> at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.
>
> 2) Only in America could people claim that the government still
> discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President,
> a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is
> black. 12% of the population is black.
>
> 3) Only in America could we 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 we 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 we 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 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 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.
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Bill Anderson
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