Got one of those emails....

[Bigmack]

... secondhand from a Progressive.

Here's the email...all bold and in color, of course...

My problems with the IRS

They sent my Income Tax forms back!!

In answer to the question, 'Do you have any dependents?',

I listed....... 12 million illegal immigrants, 10 million crack heads, 20 million unemployed bastards too lazy to work, the entire cast of The Jerry Springer Show, 102,000 people in 144 penal institutions in Florida, 2 million leftovers from Katrina, all of the House of Representatives and most of the Senate.

Apparently, this wasn't an acceptable answer.
- - - -
My response to "Reply All"

Wow...

This is such bullshit.

12 million "illegals"... 8 million of whom work at low-pay jobs. They pay taxes... state, local, sales.. including Social Security, which they cannot collect... Since undocumented workers have only fake numbers, they'll never be able to collect the benefits these taxes are meant to pay for. Last year, the revenues from these fake numbers — that the Social Security administration stashes in the "earnings suspense file" — added up to 10 percent of the Social Security surplus. The file is growing, on average, by more than $50 billion a year. The non-partisan National Research Council found that when the taxes paid by the children of low-skilled immigrant families, most of whom are illegal — are factored in, they contribute on average $80,000 more to federal coffers than they consume.
http://reason.org/news/show/122411.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090902874.html

2 million addicts... heroin, coke, crack in the US ... how are they your dependents? There are 12 million alcoholics in the US. You want to arrest them (see the prison comment below) or treat them? Neither is cheap.
http://www.peele.net/faq/addicts.html

There are 70 applicants for every job.... not 20 million unemployed bastards.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/06/graduates-face-tougher-jobs-fight

Florida prison population...? Florida is a basket case. What does that have to do with anything? We have 2 million people in US prisons.. a 700 % increase since 1970. We have more people in prison than any other country on earth... including China. Which ones do you want to release? Oh... and it costs about $30,000 to house one prisoner.... 3 times what it costs to keep a kid in school

Your dependents are actually corporations like GE, Exxon, Chevron, Boeing, Citigroup.... who paid NO income taxes, had record profits, and offshored their money along with the jobs of Americans. Your real dependents are the banks who got loans totaling $16 TRILLION from the Federal Reserve and those same banks who got TARP bailout money in 2008 to the tune of $1.6 Trillion.

[csziggy]

1. Great comeback!

:yourock:

[Drale]

2. OMG I wish someone actually trying this bullshit

the IRS would have them arrested for tax fraud so fast their gold plated wallets would melt.

[gateley]

3. EXCELLENT response!

:headbang:

[Remember Me]

4. Brilliant response

thanks for sharing it.

[jberryhill]

5. "My response to "Reply All""

Bravo.

I hit "reply all" on those things every time now... which is rarely.

What's fascinating is how sometimes I'm told I'm being rude for hitting "reply all". My response is that someone saw fit to send it to all of us, and I am not going to consent by silence to such rubbish.

[zeos3]

7. +1

:applause:

[we can do it]

17. I Do It To- Been Told I Have Unmitigated Gall When Calling Out the BS

sorry - but when you recycle the same shit on a yearly basis or spread ridiculous unfounded lies, you deserve what you get.

[jberryhill]

19. I just don't understand that reaction...

In these people's opinions it is "not rude" to blast some hateful screed to dozens of people, but it is "rude" to call it out as a hateful screed to the same dozens of people.

I want to figure out how to inject stuff into the "forward this email" superhighway.

This crap doesn't write itself. Someone, somewhere, comes up with this manipulative crap and despite the usual amateurish touches, the kind of fact-mangling that goes on in them does not, IMHO, happen by accident.

[MedicalAdmin]

21. You don't want to be treated with gall?

Then don't do anything to deserve it.

[reggie the dog]

6. actually if 10 million crackheads exist

that is proof that crack should be legal, one in about 30 people is addicted to crack and what do you know we cant even tell.....

[Fleshdancer]

8. **stands up and applauds**

Your response actually makes me wish I had someone who emails me crap like this just so I could have the opportunity to cut and paste your response and reply to all.

Great job!

:applause:

[abq e streeter]

9. Excellent.

Of course to the braindead/brainwashed idiots like the one who sent that to you, refuting their tenuous grasp on reality using easily verifiable facts are just more proof of some nebulous coordinated attack by them there marxist/socialist/ liberals.

[SusanaMontana41]

10. Right on! n/t

[MountainLaurel]

11. May need to save this somewhere

So that it's handy if I ever see this on FB.

[Bigmack]

12. Save... that's the answer..

I got tired of responding to these things by researching every time one of them popped up in an email or on some newspaper opinion board, so I kept all my research on one word processing document. Now I just copy-and-paste.

email/posting is about "illegals"... go to document... copy... paste... send.

Budget..? I have one about the "defense" budget eating up any money we have.

Taxes...? I have several about the corporations not paying taxes.

No fuss, no muss.

I even saved comebacks with various levels of snark for when they write back about my post/response.

[eridani]

13. Hope you hit "Reply Alll"

Pure magic for making sure that those emails don't get sent to you as often.

[obxhead]

14. K&R

[Amonester]

15. Awesome!

Maybe it's just me, but I sure would include this right after the last paragraph: George W. Bush, was the REPUBLICAN president when that all time's record-breaking bailout scam happened.

[JoeyT]

16. Reply all doesn't really help educate people that aren't willing to learn.

But it will keep your inbox clear when people learn not to send you chain emails.

[jberryhill]

20. IMHO, it has an impact

What these emails tend to do, if left unresponded, is to convey the impression of broad agreement.

I could be wrong, but I "reply all" simply to get the message out that there are those who do not agree with it.

I sometimes get back friendly "thank you" notes from other recipients whom I don't even know.

[treestar]

18. Wonderful response!

I hate those smug right wingers - claiming to be better than everyone else. They deserve that smack down.

[DirkGently]

22. Nice. +