This is so sad; from a proud, strong country to a laughing stock of the world. Canadians Version of David Letterman's Top 10. Just makes you want to shake your head in disbelief, and, just maybe choke someone in charge. This is Canada's Top Ten List of America's Stupidity. Of course we look like idiots - we are! # 10 Only in America... could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 per plate Obama campaign fund-raising event. # 09 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 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black, 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics! # 08 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. # 07 Only in America... can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that we are insensitive and Muslims might be harmed by the backlash. # 06 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 they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens. (probably should be number one) # 05 Only in America... could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be called EXTREMISTS. # 04 Only in America do you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote. # 03 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). # 02 Only in America... could you 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. Our assets do not equal our liabilities. We're bankrupt. # 01 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 and haven't for generations. The world laughs at us. Source: http://www.usacarry.com/forums/politics-and-news/49173-only-america.html 美国政坛十大奇葩 10）只有在美国，才能看到花了35000美元、买一张奥巴马竞选筹款宴会门票的政客们，痛心疾首地指责有钱人的无耻贪婪。 9）只有在美国才能看到人们喋喋不休地抱怨对黑人的种族歧视，而完全不顾国家总统是黑人，总检察长是黑人，20%的政府工作人员是黑人的现实。黑人只占美国人口总数12.85%（2010年美国人口普查），每年政府权益的40% 流向黑人，是白人的3 倍，西裔的5 倍， 8）只有在美国才能看到两个对美国税法至关重要的人物:财政部部长和国家筹款委员会主席，明里大力提倡提高税率，却私下进行税务作弊以求尽量少地交税 7）只有在美国才能看到穆斯林极端恐怖分子以真主阿拉的名义残杀无辜，却被主流媒体袒护，担心民众的反弹情绪会伤害穆斯林 6）只有在美国才能看到合法移民要在自己的国家等候若干年，并支付成千上万费用才可能成为移民，而政府却在讨论如何尽快地将偷越国界线的非法移民尽快合法化 5）只有在美国才能看到那些信奉政府预算应该平衡，并坚守国家宪法的人被称为极端分子 4）只有在美国才能看到你买瓶酒或兑现支票需要身份证或驾照，可投票却不需要 3）只有在美国才能看到民众强烈要求对石油公司进行调查，怀疑他们利用高油价坑骗大众，却不顾一些石油公司（比如marothon oil) 的股本回报率比网球鞋制造商（比如耐克）的一半还不如 2）只有在美国才能看到有史以来政府每年征收比任何国家都多的税收，却还要多花数兆美元，基本上每分钟花费700 万美金，可还抱怨钱不够花 1）只有在美国才能看到缴纳全国总税收86%的富人阶层被一分钱税不缴的人指责缴的税不够多 这是怎么了？ Total American Muslim population share projected to grow Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/01/06/a-new-estimate-of-the-u-s-muslim-population/ 86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers By Terence P. Jeffrey | April 16, 2014 | 5:04 AM EDT Buried deep on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau is a number every American citizen, and especially those entrusted with public office, should know. It is 86,429,000. That is the number of Americans who in 2012 got up every morning and went to work — in the private sector — and did it week after week after week. These are the people who built America, and these are the people who can sustain it as a free country. The liberal media have not made them famous like the polar bear, but they are truly a threatened species. It is not a rancher with a few hundred head of cattle that is attacking their habitat, nor an energy company developing a fossil fuel. It is big government and its primary weapon — an ever-expanding welfare state. First, let's look at the basic taxonomy of the full-time, year-round American worker. In 2012, according to the Census Bureau, approximately 103,087,000 people worked full-time, year-round in the United States. "A full-time, year-round worker is a person who worked 35 or more hours per week (full time) and 50 or more weeks during the previous calendar year (year round)," said the Census Bureau. "For school personnel, summer vacation is counted as weeks worked if they are scheduled to return to their job in the fall." Of the 103,087,000 full-time, year-round workers, 16,606,000 worked for the government. That included 12,597,000 who worked for state and local government and 4,009,000 who worked for the federal government. The 86,429,000 Americans who worked full-time, year-round in the private sector, included 77,392,000 employed as wage and salary workers for private-sector enterprises and 9,037,000 who worked for themselves. (There were also approximately 52,000 who worked full-time, year-round without pay in a family enterprise.) At first glance, 86,429,000 might seem like a healthy population of full-time private-sector workers. But then you need to look at what they are up against. The Census Bureau also estimates the size of the benefit-receiving population. This population, too, falls into two broad categories. The first includes those who receive benefits for public services they performed or in exchange for payroll taxes they dutifully paid their entire working lives. Among these, for example, are those receiving veteran's benefits, those on unemployment and those getting Medicare and Social Security. The second category includes those who get "means-tested" government benefits — or welfare. These include, for example, those who get Medicaid, food stamps, Supplemental Security Income, public housing, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and Women, Infants Children. Let's examine this second category first, which the Census Bureau reports as "anyone residing in a household in which one or more people received benefits from the program." In the last quarter of 2011, according to the Census Bureau, approximately 82,457,000 people lived in households where one or more people were on Medicaid. 49,073,000 lived in households were someone got food stamps. 23,228,000 lived in households where one or more got WIC. 20,223,000 lived in households where one or more got SSI. 13,433,000 lived in public or government-subsidized housing. |
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