Did You Know?

POW's
The number of Americans taken prisoner in World War II was 130,201.
Source: Infoplease

Father of the Oil Well
Edwin Drake, not to be confused with the English explorer Sir Francis Drake, is credited with having "discovered oil" on August 27, 1859, near Titusville, PA. Drake was the first to successfully drill for oil and create an oil well.
Source: Answers.com




32 Million Unregistered Voters
Can you believe it? That's the number of people who reported to the U.S. Census Bureau that they were not registered to vote in 2004. Here are some of the reasons given for not registering to vote.

1. 15 million gave as a reason the fact that they were not interested in the election or politics. That's nearly half!
   
2. 6 million said they had failed to meet the registration deadlines.

Less frequent responses for not registering were:

1. Voting ineligibility.
2. Permanent illness or disability. I don't get this one
3. Not knowing how to register
4. Feeling that their vote would not make a difference
5. Lacking residency requirements

Source: U.S. Census Bureaw

300 Times Bigger 40 Years Later

From its modest $1 billion budget in 1966, the Medicaid program’s cost has rocketed. It now costs taxpayers approximately $300 billion a year.

In other words, the more money spent to fight so-called poverty puts more people on welfare (government assistance). The total population hasn’t grown 300 times its size. Wasn’t the opposite supposed to happen?
Perhaps Medicaid was created for buying votes.
Source: Congressional Research Service.

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