Not in the slightest. We have a far different country demographically, culturally, and economically than when FDR was President. In many ways, we are now reaping what FDR sowed. The chickens are coming home to roost.
When FDR took office, we were a nation of 125 million people, the vast majority of whom were of European origin. We didn't have the welfare state nor programs like affirmative action. Multiculturalism and diversity were not considered strengths. Our educational system inculcated American values and the vision of our Founders had a general consensus. The role of religion was more central. We didn't have widespread abortion or high rates of out of wedlock birth and children raised in single family households. The percentage of the population living in large urban centers was much smaller.
The US wasn't the world's biggest debtor. The size of government was relatively small. Many government agencies that we have today didn't exist. The New Deal led to the the Fair Deal that led to the Great Society and now to Hope and Change. SS, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc were spawned from these administrations to put us on the road to the welfare state and bankruptcy. Obamacare is the final piece of the welfare state and the last nail in the coffin of this country.
We are now a nation of 313 million. The 1965 Immigration Act changed the demography of this country forever.
The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 36 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 90 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. And by 2050, one in 5 residents of the U.S. will be foreign-born.
Currently, 1.6 million legal and illegal immigrants settle in the country each year; 350,000 immigrants leave each year, resulting in a net immigration of 1.25 million. Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased from 203 million to 313 million, i.e., over 100 million. In the next 40 years, the population will increase by an additional 130 million to 440 million. Three-quarters of the increase in our population since 1970 and the projected increase will be the result of immigration. The U.S., the world’s third most populous nation, has the highest annual rate of population growth of any developed country in the world, i.e., 0.963% (2011 estimate,) principally due to immigration.
The nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached 40 million in 2010, the highest number in our history. The U.S. immigrant population has doubled since 1990, nearly tripled since 1980, and quadrupled since 1970, when it stood at 9.7 million. Of the 40 million immigrants in the country in 2010, 13.9 million arrived in 2000 or later making it the highest decade of immigration in American history, even though there was a net loss of jobs during the decade. Growth in the immigrant population has primarily been driven by high levels of legal immigration.
57 percent of immigrant headed households with children use at least one major welfare program. We are importing poverty and hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts every year through our kinship system of immigration. 25 percent of the adult legal immigrants who enter each year lack even a high school degree. Our current pro-population growth immigration policies are fueling bigger and bigger government as we approach a population of half a billion within the next 50 years. Milton Friedman said that, “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.” We have both.
87 percent of the 1.2 million legal immigrants entering annually are minorities as defined by the U.S. Government and almost all of the illegal aliens are minorities. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under in the U.S. will be classified as minorities and by 2039, half of the residents of this country will be minorities. Generally, immigrants and minorities vote predominantly for the Democrat Party. Hence, Democrats view immigration as a never-ending source of voters that will make them the permanent majority party.
Since the 1965 Immigration Act, our pro-population growth immigration policies have fueled major demographic changes in a very short period of time. In 1970, non-Hispanic whites comprised 89 percent of the population; today they are 66 percent; and by 2039, they will be 50 percent. The Democrats, under the banner of multiculturalism and diversity, have forged a political coalition that depends on individuals coalescing around racial and ethnic identities rather than the issues. The continuing and increasing flow of minority immigrants, mostly poor and uneducated, provides a natural constituency for the Democrats, which see them as their principal source of political power.
If we are uable to repeal Obamacare--something impossible to do with Obama in the WH for the next 4 years--it will be embedded into our economy and give the government unparalled control over our lives.
There are 60 million ppeople on Medicaid (and 18 million will be added by Obamacare,) 54 million on SS, 47 million on Medicare, and 46 million on food stamps. Half of the population no longer pays income tax. By 2030 one in five residents of this country will be 65 or older, twice what it is now. In 1950 there were two workers for every retiree; today there are 3.3; and by 2030 there will be two workers for every retiree.
We have almost a $16 trillion debt and Obama will add another 4-5 trillion dollars in his second term. We borrow 42 cents of every federal dollar spent and just the entitlement programs, welfare, and debt servicing costs consume all of the tax revenue and about 60% of the federal budget.
If you believe that we can get out of the mess we are in now made worse by Obama in the next four years, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell to you. It may not matter who is in the WH in the next four years because we may already be too far gone to be resurrected, but Obama will be pressing on the accelerator as we head off the cliff. God help us.
Run the sky is falling. It's projected to occur by 2013.
“There are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics.”
Try measuring the American spirit for a change. We need worse, Obama will bring it. No alcoholic stops drinking until he hits his personal bottom.
Excellent summary and I could not agree more. Do you mind if I use that, giving you credit of course?
... It may not matter who is in the WH in the next four years because we may already be too far gone to be resurrected, but Obama will be pressing on the accelerator as we head off the cliff. God help us....
...fortunately, you inserted the above sentence in your post, because I was about to say that while your data is most impressive, and does indeed foretell the ultimate demise of the US as a world power, your original post indicated that if only Obama is stopped in 2012, then all will be right...your subsequent posts have made it clear that a cross of Washington and Lincoln in the WH in 2012 isn’t going to matter a hill of beans once the demographics start kicking in for real in about 25 years...hard to see in that scenario any optimism simply by denying Obama his lame duck second term...