Posted on 05/06/2011 10:43:06 AM PDT by wagglebee
PUERTO RICO, May 5, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - There’s a troubling reason for the low number of domestic applications to major universities in the United States, says professor Krzystztof Silwa, a candidate for the presidency of the of University of Puerto Rico: the applicants have been killed.
“Do you know what is happening in the United States? In 1973, they established legal abortion. More or less 50 million abortions have been committed or done in the United States, which means that they have killed an entire generation in the United States,” Silwa told the university’s Search Committee, which is interviewing three candidates for the job.
“At the moment we don’t have students. We are asking for them to come almost on our knees,” he added.
According to Silwa, the shortage of students caused by abortion has led university administrators in the U.S. to try to fill the rolls from other countries.
“They have given everything to defend their positions. To maintain their positions, for example, in one university they have brought 4,000 students from outside and that’s how they’re maintaining their positions.”
According to the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chinese universities are facing a similar problem, due to the nation’s plummeting birth rate, which has been brought about by massive abortion and contraceptive measures imposed by the government through its “one child policy.”
You must be young, the immigration situation was out of control 35 and 40 years ago.
I'm not buying that at all, over 65s are only about 1/8th of our population. Americans were pretty close to zero population growth when the foreigners started flooding in by the tens of millions, with a huge birthrate.
That may be true right now, but with the huge number of baby boomers reaching 65 every year, that is going to change really fast.
Not to mention the "old, old" population - people who are living into their nineties, and even older, due to advances in medical technology.
The massive increase in population was driven by immigration, not by people born 50 and 80 years ago, getting old.
Note the size of Reagan’s proposed anmesty: tiny in comparision with what a present day one would. For the first ten— fifteen years the immigrants had competition. That began to fall away around 1985 as the effects of the birth dearth began to be felt. Of course, one has to distinguish between pro and anti-birth people. Already by 1960, the Protestant Establishment and the main-line protestants had begun to abandon their earlier views on marriage and child-bearing. Back in the ‘50s there was a lot of talk about Catholics and the number of kids they had, especially when the Catholics were Mexicans. The mantra was: child-birth causes poverty, and the one-boy, one girl family begins to become the norm. The invention of the pill, though, was what began to knock the birth rate down and “necking”began to go out of fashion.
Too many colleges, not enough vocational schools.
Not everybody was meant to go to college.
PR has the highest rate of abortion in Latin America after Communist Cuba, and it doesn't look like the pro-life movement has been that successful in changing public opinion.
By 1970 many of us were already being pushed out of jobs and housing by mexicans, I would say that Democrat policies were the most harmful and that most of the blame has to go to the Catholics that voted Democrat and gave us the Kennedys.
With no Kennedys, then we would still be America.
But there was no flood of immigration that early. The first hint of what was going on can be seen the census figures of 1980. Until about that time, migration was largely limited to the border states.
Yes, border states such as Texas, and California are real. Those of us that were having to deal with the growth, variety, and the changing attitude and demeanor of immigration were well aware of it without having to wait to read about it.
Well, it works both way. During the Depression, many Mexicans left the states and went home. The big difference betwen 1935 and 1975, was the new “safety net” that immigrants were able to draw from. Johnson’s Great Society programs have contributed to this, big-time. So in hardtimes, there is less reason to go home. Another thing is the corrupt state of Mexican government and less attraction to “home.” If you recall the “Godfather,”lots of Sicilians went home to retire. and not just because they were running from the Law. With a little money, a guy could live much above his parents’ station back in Sicily. Less of that in Mexico.
The 1965 immigration act made us the grubby gold ring for the entire non European world, not just Mexico.
But it’s not just the immigration law. Besides, in most respects, it is what the law was before 1920. Besides, its just another case of the upper class telling us which tunes to dance. We ape the English, or the Germans, or whatever. They decide that multiculturalism is the thing. If we don’t just follow along like puppy dogs, they jerk on our leashes.
It is not like the pre 1920 law at all, it doomed the United States.
The Nativists of the 1850s thought that the Irish and German immigrations had changed American forever—and they had. But the culture was strong enough to absorb the new elements. Plus there was the small distraction of the Civil War. Plus there a West to be won. There was, however, a common faith that bound even as it divided.
The nativists of 1850 had a point, Catholic immigration led to the eventual destruction of America, if you follow demographics as closely as you seem to, then you realize that we don’t exist as “America” by sometime in the near future, for example 2050.
The land will be here, the name will be here, but it will not be what we created, or anything even close to it, or related to it.
The Engish might say it all began to go down hill after the Scotch-Irish began to come. The Puritans could no abide them and chased them out.
Face, it you are talking about an American that never was.
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