It is estimated that Unsolicited Email (SPAM) costs American businesses $42 billion per year according to Ferris Research. Broken down, that's 85% in productivity losses, 10% in hiring guys like me to stop SPAM, and 5% in preventative software.

But why am I blaming you? Actually, I'm guilty too. As it turns out, The Mr. and Mrs. tax payer funded White House revealed that it hired a private communications firm to distribute unsolicited spam to help sell President Obama's health care plan.

It's bad enough that they have to "sell" this health care plan, but to use tax dollars to do so, and on the backs of private business?

For those of you who think this is not such a big deal, let me put this problem into perspective; I run an Email server for my clients. Using the Google SPAM calculator, it estimated that SPAM is costing the total of my Clients over $1,000 per year. If it wasn't for our anti-spam policy (which costs me thousands of dollars per year), the estimate would jump to over $100,000 per year and most likely, I would be out of business.