Posted on 05/19/2009 7:33:29 AM PDT by RWB Patriot
To the delight of the hard left, the fork-in-the-road debate continues in the Republican Party: “Shall we be inclusive (read, bring people into the party who believe in big government, higher taxes, more government regulation, more government takeover of private industry, and more interference in the lives of American citizens) or shall we remain steadfast to traditional conservative principles?”
The great fear, of course, is that if Republicans try to please their core constituents (Gee, why would anyone want to do that?), they will never regain the White House, the Senate, or the House of Representatives.
If Republicans want to put the final nail in their extinction coffin, they need only to continue playing the role of progressive-conservatives. That is term, of course, a contradiction in terms, which is why voters find it so offensive. Many party members believe that the way to power (which, unfortunately, is what politics is all about) is to be better bone throwers than Democrats.
That’s right, throw bones to “the poor,” the unemployed, “minorities,” union members, the elderly, people whose houses are in foreclosure … and on and on the list goes. Bone throwers all have one thing in common: tired arms.
When a country is flooded with chazzers (see Part I of this article), each bone that is thrown only succeeds in bringing cries for still more bones … until, alas, there are no more taxpayer bones to pick. And when there are no bones to pick, there are no bones to throw.
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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 80 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 net immigration of 1.25 million. Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased from 203 million to 306 million, i.e., over 100 million. In the next 40 years, the population will increase by 135 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., 0.975% (2009 estimate), principally due to immigration.
Milton Friedman said, “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.”
What good is having power if not to defend the liberty of the individual. Those politicians in it just for the money, the status, the ego-satisfaction, and the other perks of power, most of them, need to go ahead and join the Democrats.
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