Posted on 09/22/2014 6:50:14 AM PDT by wagglebee
In 1970 89% of the population was non-Hispanic white. The Immigration Act of 1965 changed our demography forever.
The last 100 million people destroyed us as a nation, and turned us into a grubby bus stop of overcrowded cities and big government as our communities were destroyed, and we became a dog eat dog place of concrete and greed and short term gains and big city politics devoured states.
Demography is destiny. Add to that the welfare state that was placed on hyper-drive under LBJ's Great Society. One out of every two Americans receives a check from the government.
The 35.4 Percent: 109,631,000 on Welfare
What did taxpayers give to the 109,631,000 the 35.4 percent of the nation getting welfare benefits at the end of 2012?
82,679,000 of the welfare-takers lived in households where people were on Medicaid, said the Census Bureau. 51,471,000 were in households on food stamps. 22,526,000 were in the Women, Infants and Children program. 20,355,000 were in household on Supplemental Security Income. 13,267,000 lived in public housing or got housing subsidies. 5,442,000 got Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. 4,517,000 received other forms of federal cash assistance.
But the 109,631,000 living in households taking federal welfare benefits as of the end of 2012, according to the Census Bureau, equaled 35.4 percent of all 309,467,000 people living in the United States at that time.
When those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits were added to those taking welfare benefits, it turned out that 153,323,000 people were getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012.
Here's a question that just occurred to me: what accounts for the 25-45 age cohort bulging out in the projected 2060 census? That would seem to suggest a big uptick in fertility rate in births starting in 2015, but I don't see that. Or are they accounting for a surge in immigration starting in 2015?
No, sex within marriage does not lead to a culture of hedonism. Marriage is part of God’s plan and sex within that context is always virtuous— assuming no-fault divorce is eliminated, which just turns marriage into serial adultery. For men of virtue, the purpose of marriage is much greater than sex, but my comment was intended to mean that even for men of lesser virtue, sex was only culturally acceptable within the bounds of marriage, so they were forced to become virtuous by accepting monogamy.
True, but the 1965 Immigration Act was JFK’s baby, not LBJ.
JFK was obsessed with replacing us with foreigners that would support his party and it’s agenda, his efforts that consumed so much of his life in the 1950s and 60s, and that he wrote a book promoting, became the Act that passed after his death, and in his name.
“[focusing]...on our own salvation” implies “living chastely”.
Recent immigration has had only a tiny impact on the nations age structure. If the nearly 14 million immigrants who arrived in 2000 or later are excluded, it raises the average age in the United States in 2010 from 37.4 years to 37.6 years roughly two months.
You can check out the Census Bureau data here--U.S. Census Bureau Projections Show a Slower Growing, Older, More Diverse Nation a Half Century from Now
The ACS and CPS can be used to provide insight into the impact of immigration on the size of the U.S. population. Table 6 reports six different methods using the 2010 ACS and CPS to estimate the effect of immigration on U.S. population growth since the last census. The first column in the table shows that between April 2000 (the control data for the Census) and July 2010 (the control data for the ACS) the U.S. population grew 27.9 million. The first three rows of Table 6 use the number of immigrants who arrived in the United States in the last decade to estimate the impact of immigration on U.S. population growth. As already indicated, in 2010 13.9 million immigrants indicated that they had entered the country in 2000 or later. Because those who arrived in the first three months of 2000 should already have been counted in the 2000 census we reduce this figure by 390,000, or three months worth of new immigration, to account for those who arrived in the first quarter of 2000. It is reasonable to view the 13.47 million immigrants who arrived over this time period as the basis for estimating immigrations effect on population growth because this flow reflects current U.S. immigration policy both legal immigration and the level of resources devoted to controlling illegal immigration.
Thank you.
The way you framed it was that men got married to “get sex”. There was no mention of lofty goals that you are now mentioning.
Yes, men want sex. So do women. In the past the only way to have sex without being driven from polite society was to be married, which was a strong incentive for men (and women) to marry.
Don’t be silly. Who would dispute what the government tells us?
I keep forgetting about those darn illegals!
The Gang of 8 bill will triple legal immigration to 33 million over the next decade.
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