Jacques Youssef

The Promises of a President

Posted by Jacques on October 6, 2009 | 2 Comments

Mr. President, it has been 10 months since you took the office of the presidency and my question to you is are we better off now than we were before?

Have you kept any of the promises that you made during your campaign? Lets go through some of them and see:

You promised to withdraw our troops from Iraq. You promised to bring our troops out of Afghanistan. You promised  health care for all the Americans without raising tax dollars. So far your track record is not off to a good start as non of the promises have been fulfilled.

You also promised to fix the economy. In this issue you would get a failing grade. The deficit is on the rise, unemployment is in double digits, foreclosures have become a very serious problem and getting worse. You had promised transparency in government and to keep us informed of how all the tarp money was spent yet billions stand unaccounted for. Billions of our tax payer dollars Mr. President!

This money, our money, should have been used to recharge the economy. Instead however it seems to have been used to make certain corporation richer so that they could afford to reward their CEOs and executive with larger bonuses all at the expense of the American tax payers.

Furthermore, why are we still spending billions of dollars to fight terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan? In order for us to win the war against terrorism, we must first start here in our own country. We must secure our borders and stop illegal immigrants from entering as they wish. We must reform our intelligent services and equip them for this task. When terrorism no longer has the ability to attack and terrorize innocent people, it will cease to exist.

Mr. President, sending another 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan will not make us win this war! We are fighting a phantom. Our troops are trained to fight a classic war against an opposing side’s soldiers. They were never trained to fight this type of war against and almost unseen enemy.  It has been proven over and over, that a well trained professional army is not equipped to fight this type of battle. Please go back and look at the results of Vietnam; look at the result of the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan; what about the mighty Israeli army against Hezbalah in Southern Lebanon? The list goes on and on…

In the history of modern warfare, no professional army has ever been able to defeat militants, who fought in small groups hidden amongst the civilian population. How can an enemy like this successfully be pursued?  We must bring all our troops back home, secure our border, stop illegal immigration, strengthen our intelligent services and save the lives of our troops!

Mr. President, your first priority must be the economy of this country! We must be first on your list! You must start the engine of the economy, not by taxing the average American to death, but by allowing the money to be invested in creating new jobs and wealth; not by spending it on corporate bailouts and foreign wars.

It is your legacy Mr. President. I hope you will make the right choices. The American people must be your top priority. Remember if we succeed you succeed and this is how your presidency will be judged. Please keep your promises to the American people and set yourself apart from the other politicians in Washington as you said you would during the elections.

Thank you for your support.

-Jacques

The State Of The Union Today Part 2

Posted by Jacques on September 19, 2009 | 1 Comment

Our unemployment is 10% and rising fast. Many fail to recognize however, the 5% of people who have been unemployed for more than one year and are no longer able to collect unemployment. If we were to add these two numbers together, the unemployment rate would really come out to 15%, the highest since the Great Depression.

With such high unemployment rates, our government has allowed twelve million illegal immigrants to enter the United States and take jobs away from American citizens. To put this further into perspective, let’s take a moment to calculate the amount of money tax payers spend yearly to support these illegal immigrants.

I will try to be very conservative with my number so that everyone understands how our government is robbing our money to give it to illegal immigrants who have broken the law.

Also I will discuss who is really benefiting from this cheap labor. It is most definitely not you or I, the average American citizen. Instead the vast majority of illegal immigrants work in the agricultural industry.  Even so, our fruits and vegetables continue rising in price and we find ourselves paying more and more to put food on our tables. Obviously it is the rich owners of the huge agricultural companies who benefit from this by being able to pay illegal immigrants much less then they would have to pay American workers who should be getting these jobs.

The same twelve million immigrants who are here illegally taking American jobs send almost 80% of their money back home. This money gets transfered in small amounts through Western Union and similar outlets making it untraceable.  Not only are these immigrants working here illegally, but they are reaping the benefits of our great nation while not paying any taxes and sending most of the money they earn out of the country.

Let me go back and give you some figures that illustrates why our health care system, schools , hospitals,  and tax payers are shedding their money to support these illegal immigrants.

Assuming our government is not lying and there are only 12,000,000 illegal immigrants here:

If the average family is four people then we have approximately two million four hundred thousand illegal families in the USA. As mentioned before I am being very conservative with my numbers. Considering the average family will cost about $5,000.00 in health care a year, and the average child will cost about $6,000.00 a year to educate then the numbers work out in this way:

• Health care cost          2,400,000 families x $5,000.00= $12,000,000,000.00

• School cost                   4,800,000 children x $6,000 = $32,400,000,000.00

In addition, the tax revenue  from the illegal immigrants’ income of approximately $120,000,000,000 should be about $25,000,000,000. These taxes are of course never collected since these immigrants are working here illegally.

If we add all these number up we come up with $70,000,000,000 that is being stolen from our pockets yearly.

Could we please ask our senators and congressmen to stop ignoring this major problem. They have been elected by us to serve the American people, not special interest groups and foreign illegal immigrants.

It is our land and our children’s future at stake. Let us reclaim our land once and for all and ensure that our politicians are serving the American people as they should be and that the immigrants in this country come here legally and join in the burden all Americans have to endure.

-Jacques