Why the cut in average  U.S.  BENEFITS  and  the Needed  Higher  Taxes ?
WHAT COSTS MORE  PER YEAR THAN THE IRAQ WAR?
    'snopes' is provided for doubters:
 
    I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again
    until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading
    them. I have included the URL's for verification of the following
    facts.  All  Political  Candidates  for  ANY  Office should address this !!!

    1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
    each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77 <http://tinyurl.com/zob77>

    2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
    such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
    http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
    <http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html>

    3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal
    aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

    4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
    education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of
    English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

    5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
    American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
    <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html>

    6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
    social services by the American taxpayers.
    http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

    9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
    by the illegal aliens.
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's
    two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
    their
    children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

    11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
    that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal
    aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine,
    meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern
    border. Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

    12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of
    mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
    cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'

    http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

    13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back
    to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

    14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex
    Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States'.
    http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

    The total cost is a whooping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR !