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“Verity
- the quality or state of being true or real; Balderdash –
nonsense.”
Miriam-Webster
Online Dictionary
Verities
& Balderdash
Only
in
America
Edited by
Bob Robinson
This came
from an unknown source, please be advised that the information
presented here
has not been verified.Regardless, from my humble perspective, there’s a
grain
of truth in each point. Read it and weep...
Only in
America---Top Ten
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 fret 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 giving anyone who sneaks into the country
illegally
a free ride to 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 can 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.
A
progressive government pledge...
“If
it aint broke we will keep fixing it
until it is.”
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