Only in America

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 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.