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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Shh...the Brigadiers might hear you using logic and common sense. Can't have that...
10 posted on 01/03/2002 8:44:47 AM PST by Poohbah
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To: Poohbah
Shh...the Brigadiers might hear you using logic and common sense.

I don't believe there is much hope of that happening.

39 posted on 01/03/2002 10:07:37 AM PST by eskimo
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I'm virtually done reading "Death of the West," and it's a tour de force. Very well written, with vivid and interesting examples used to illustrate Buchanan's points.

Despite the way the book is being presented by some, the focus of the book is on the taking over of the culture-forming institutions in the West by quasi-Marxists, who have used their position of influence to preach hatred of Christianity of the West. The end result is the triumph of political correctness we see today. Buchanan treats the declining birth rates throughout the West primarily as a symptom of this broader Marxist-inspired malaise.

Since people seem focused on the immigration debate, though, Buchanan has the facts on his side there as well. As Harvard economist (and Cuban immigrant) George Borjas has shown, current immigrants are MORE likely than native-born Americans to get government handouts. As the National Reserach Center's study showed, mass immigration is NOT necessary to the American economy: that study found the net contribution to the economy from immigration was on the order of ten billion, a paltry sum in an eight trillion dollar economy. And economists have also found that this benefit has come at a cost, the declining wages of working-class Americans. Finally, as the 2000 election returns showed, immigrants are MORE likely than native-born Americans to vote for liberals.

As usual, Buchanan has facts and logic on his side, and all the politically correct can do is whine and call him names.

47 posted on 01/03/2002 10:31:23 AM PST by Thorin
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To: Poohbah
might hear you using logic and common sense. Can't have that..

Well, those are two things you are obviously lacking.

428 posted on 01/05/2002 12:52:24 AM PST by dougherty
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