Replying to Only in America

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 while 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 fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash. Meanwhile, the Administration labels a terrorist's killings at Ft. Hood as 'workplace violence' 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 to 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 photo ID driver's license to cash a check, buy alcohol, buy allergy relief 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 companies is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike). And while the oil company makes 11 cents per gallon, the government reaps 42 cents. 9) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year (total spending of $7 million PER MINUTE), and yet complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money. 10) Only in America could the 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.