All False statements involving Chain email
The salaries of Wisconsin’s best-educated public school teachers were "slashed" by Gov. Scott Walker through a recent administrative rule change.
A Dallas proof-of-insurance ordinance resulted in area tow lots mostly filling with the cars of illegal residents.
Says Gov. Scott Walker is "openly" backing a move to abolish the state retirement system and convert it to a 401(k)-style plan that will reduce pensions "by at least a third" for current and retired public employees
"Florida is the first state requiring drug testing to receive welfare!"
State employees will have to pay 100 percent of their pensions and health insurance after 2012.
After Hurricane Katrina, "Dallas and San Antonio took in 5,000 to 10,000 refugees each, but (Bill) White brought in 250,000 and put them up in his 'buddies' empty apartment buildings and let the federal government pay their rents for over two years. They did not return to New Orleans, most of them are on welfare."
Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.
Once the U.S. government signs a U.N. treaty on conventional arms, "all U.S. citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments."
The Democrats' health care bills would provide "free health care for illegal immigrants."
The House health care bill provides for "free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession."
"The Congressional Budget Office -- supposedly non-partisan -- estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four (from cap and trade) will be $6,800 per year."
An Iowa policy "provides for a state round up of Iowa citizens who might be exposed to the swine flu virus."
A new bill "was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt."
Claims that former Sen. Tom Daschle said, "Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
"If Barack Obama would apply for a job with the FBI or with the Secret Service, he would be disqualified because of his past associations with William Ayers."
Barack Obama wants to "restore" the estate tax that George W. Bush "repealed."
John McCain will keep the estate tax at 0 percent, the same as it is now.
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