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1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of
the rich
at a $40,000 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 dodgers who are in favor
of higher
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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