Thread: Has anyone seen anything in regards to this Bill today?

I saw this on Fire Society.

http://www.firesociety(DOT))com/forum/thread/19940/ALERT--Bill-in-the-House-of-Reps.-to-fund-La-Raza-/

Does the NAACP get the same amounts? How about CAIR? Asian groups?

Why do they need tax payer money when they have a bucket full of cooperate sponsors?

* As of 2005, the Hispanic population in the continental U.S. was 41.9 million, or 14.5% of the total population. An additional 3.9 million Hispanics were residing in Puerto Rico. It is projected that Latinos will account for more than one in four Americans by 2050.
* 50% of the Hispanic population is under age 25.
* 85% of Hispanics under 18 were born in the United States.
* Latino buying power is more than $736 billion.
* By 2010, it is expected that Hispanics will have more than $1 trillion in disposable income.
* The U.S. Latino population remits billions of dollars to Latin America: $45.8 billion in 2004.



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