Posted on 08/06/2008 10:15:02 AM PDT by NYer
I don’t know about you, but my “cultural values” don’t include engaging in a breeding contest with third world peasants whose plan for economic survival and feeding their too-many children is to sneak into the US and do menial labor.
You know it's coming and the justification will go something like this: "You aborted our peers, reducing the number of taxpayers; now we're euthanizing the social security beneficiaries".
Can't say I blame them.
That's true but there is one big difference between the US and the rest of the world. Europe has brought in workers from the Middle East, the majority of whom are Muslim. Our immigrants are Christians! You have seen the Muslim riots in Paris and London ... contrast that with Mexicans who believe in Jesus Christ.
Then we wonder why the world does not love us anymore.
No. The weight is already there. In the dirt. In the grain. In the water. The weight on the earth would be the same even if the population doubled instantly.
Joking I was.
Absolutely. If you aren’t independently wealthy they will start euthanizing the unproductive elderly.
And yet no mention of the total savings to society from not having to pay to take care of children for two-decades or more, taxes to pay for more schools and more teachers, followed by the cost to parents and society of college and grad schools.So you claim the next generation is a net expense to the current one?
Since 1970 our population increased by 100 million, ...And our standard of living has done what since then?
Most immigrants are on welfare to start ...An interesting claim. NONE of my immigrant relatives have EVER been on welfare. What data supports your claim?
That's called a pyramid scheme, and is unsustainable.Nonsense. A growing population and groing productivity (both have defined the United States for the last 30 years and more) are far from a "pyramid scheme". Shame on you for claiming that having children is the same as a criminal fraud.
Whose standard of living? The gap between rich and poor has never been wider. We are taking on the profile of a third world country.
I always get suspicious when people use Democratic Party talking points on FR.
Immigrants in the United States, 2007: A profile of America's Foreign-Born Population
The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 33 percent, compared to 19 percent for native households.
The poverty rate for immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) is 17 percent, nearly 50 percent higher than the rate for natives and their children.
34 percent of immigrants lack health insurance, compared to 13 percent of natives. Immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for 71 percent of the increase in the uninsured since 1989.
The current influx of poorly educated immigrants is the result of two factors: first, a legal immigration system that favors kinship ties over skills and education; and second, a permissive attitude toward illegal immigration that has led to lax border enforcement and non-enforcement of the laws that prohibit the employment of illegal immigrants. In recent years, these factors have produced an inflow of some ten and a half million immigrants who lack a high school education. In terms of increased poverty and expanded government expenditure, this importation of poorly educated immigrants has had roughly the same effect as the addition of ten and a half million native-born high school drop-outs.
Some 38 percent of immigrant children live in families headed by persons who lack a high school education; Minor children of first-generation immigrants comprise 26 percent of poor children in the U.S.; and One out of six poor children in the U.S. is the offspring of first-generation immigrant parents who lack a high school diploma.
First-generation Hispanic immigrants and their families now comprise 9 percent of the U.S. population but 17 percent of all poor persons in the U.S.; and Children in Hispanic immigrant families now comprise 11.7 percent of all children in the U.S. but 22 percent of all poor children in the U.S.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Immigration, legal and illegal, is one of the main reasons for this diparity. The immigrants are depressing wages at the lower end of the scale and they are largely undeducated. The Hispanic out of wedlock birth rate is 50% and the high school drop out rate is about the same. This is the social pathology for failure in this society.
The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 33 percent, ...So the VAST majority do NOT use welfare. That makes your claim that "Most immigrants are on welfare ..." an obvious lie. Vary sad.
The gap between rich and poor has never been wider.What data backs up that claim?
We are taking on the profile of a third world country.Really? How so?
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See my posts above. Hatred seems to blind some folks.
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