The Fix to the Social Security Crisis and Immigration Crisis

Questions and Answers Blog ^ | 2/16/2005 | qandablogger

[qandablogger]

Lately I have been hearing so much about the social security crisis and the immigration crisis. President Bush is spending much of his “political capital” on his attempt to fix the social security crisis. Bill Bennet on his radio show Morning in America has spent almost two weeks discussing the issue of the immigration crisis.

While I agree with both that we do in deed have problems in these areas, none of the discussions that I hear seem to get back to the root cause of the problem and hence have no real chance of coming up with a good solution.

I know my analysis is going to be very unpopular, and I know that I am going to get trashed for saying it, but I have learned to do and say (and write about) what the little voice in my head tells me to do.

In the standard analyses of these problems we hear of a shift in the demographics as a cause for the social security crisis. We have fewer and fewer people paying into the system. But the analysis never goes any farther. Why do we have fewer people paying into the system? Because we have aborted 42 million babies since Roe V. Wade. This seems so simple and clear to me, yet it is never discussed. We are reaping what we have sowed. We want things our way, and now we are seeing the consequences.

In the immigration debate we hear that we need workers that will take all of these low paying jobs. Believe it or not again the abortion issue comes in. We have killed 42 million babies. Out of that population of babies, some of them would have taken these low paying jobs. I know that thought sounds just terrible to our politically correct society, but it is indeed true. Yes, it is true some would have lawyers, some would have been Doctors, some would have been factory workers and some would have been laborers. It is just a fact of life.

So how did we get to where we are? I think the bottom line is this; man is by his very nature evil. We want what we want and we want it now! We wanted no fault divorce so that when my fancy burned for someone else I could easily get out of my obligation. Hence destroying the fabric of the family. I wanted to have sex with whoever I wanted to have sex with without any consequences hence we want easy access to abortion with no shame attached.

We have sowed the wind and we are reaping the whirlwind.

What is the solution?

2 Chronicles 7:14 “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

The real solution is healthy God-fearing families having healthy God-fearing children. This is not rocket science.

[Zeppelin]

Right on!

[ThePythonicCow]

I have one other unpopular explanation for the immigration crisis: the minimum wage, various payroll taxes, and social programs.

The minimum wage makes wages less than a certain amount illegal. The various payroll taxes raise the minimum cost of a legal worker to probably $6 or $7 per hour.

If low wages are illegal, only illegals will have low wages

In past generations, large number of immigrants came in at low paying jobs, later to work their way up the economic ladder. Some of my ancestors came in from Ireland during the potato famine.

Then sometime during the last century, Americans decided that it was not right that large numbers of workers worked for subsistence wages, and passed various minimum wage and worker protection laws, and safety nets and social programs like medical care, welfare, and public education. I suspect that the socialist/marxist/union/communist sympathesizers in our country had alot to do with that.

Now the next wave of cheap labor is coming in, by the millions, from Mexico. The public safety net is strained to the breaking, and the only way they can be hired is illegally. Economics being a fairly powerful force, then that is the way they are hired.

The real solution is more than our nation will likely have the stomach for - repeal the minimum wage, and many of the social welfare, medical and educational programs.

I could support a guest worker program if:

• You had to apply for it from Mexico.
• It allowed for below minimum wages.
• Such workers could not get ordinary state drivers licenses or most social benefits.
• Illegals found here would be fingerprinted and sent home.
• Laws against hiring unregistered illegals were enforced.

The impact of shipping millions of workers home would be substantial, so should be spread out over a period. Say perhaps the illegals would have a month long period during which they had to register and be fingerprinted and given a deportation date, selected by lottery, over the next 90 days. Not later than their deportion date,they would have to pass through immigration at the border, heading south into Mexico. They could not come back until they had been accepted by the guest worker program. They don't follow these rules, and they cannot be accepted into the guest worker program. If they get caught here, after breaking these rules, they get deported. Employers must check the id's of legal guest workers, and fingerprints, against government records, or pay stiff fines if caught hiring without a check.