Posted on 04/03/2004 11:22:26 AM PST by MegaSilver
In 1960, when JFK defeated Nixon, America was a nation of 160 million, 90 percent white and 10 percent black, with a few million Hispanics and Asians sprinkled among us.
We were one nation, one people. We worshipped the same God, spoke the same English language, studied American history and English literature, honored the same heroes, read the same books, watched the same TV shows, went to the same movies and saw ourselves as defenders of Western civilization against the godless communism of the Soviet Empire.
We were confident and proud of who we were. That was yesterday. But due to the Immigration Act of 1965 and the cultural revolution of the '60s, that America is now gone forever. And as one studies the latest projections of the Census Bureau, the America of our grandchildren will be another country altogether, a nation unrecognizable to our parents, a giant Brazil of the North.
In 2050, there will be three times as many people living here as in 1960 -- 420 million. White Americans will be a minority, 49 percent, and falling. Hispanics in the United States, more than 100 million, will be equal to the population of today's Mexico. Our Asian population will be almost as large as our African-American population today.
By countries of origin, America will be a Third World nation. Our cities will look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.
Writing in Foreign Policy, Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, author of Who We Are, raises an alarm about the huge infusion of Hispanics into the Southwest, and for many reasons.
Much of this mass immigration is illegal. Vast numbers are coming here only to work. They are not assimilating. They do not want to become Americans. They are concentrating in states bordering Mexico, which is their country and a nation with a historic grievance against us. They are holding on to their language and culture, creating a Hispanic nation within our nation. By 2050, there will be scores of millions of people living here whose loyalty is to a foreign country.
Moreover, as multiculturalism has captured our schools and colleges, immigrant children will have prejudices and grievances against America and the West reinforced as they learn. The academic elite that controls these schools already paints America as a nation with a rancid history of genocide, slavery, racism, oppression and imperialism.
Is the Census Bureau future the future that Americans wish? No. Are they willing to risk it for their grandchildren? No.
Why, then, does that future appear inevitable?
Answer: Though a majority of Americans wish to preserve the land they grew up in for their children, our elites -- political, academic, cultural and corporate -- are either unwilling to conserve that America or indifferent to its disappearance.
Most Americans want immigration cut back and all illegal aliens sent back. Why is the will of the majority, expressed in polls and referenda, not reflected in law or policy? Because we no longer live in a democratic republic; we are ruled by a managerial elite.
America's corporate elites want an endless supply of cheap labor. Our judges throw out popularly enacted laws to which they object. Our academic elites work to see ''white, racist America'' disappear. Our neo-Marxist cultural elites wish to be the gravediggers of the West and of Christian culture. And America's conservative party, the Republican Party, believes that Hispanics hold the key to retention of presidential power and is anxious not to offend Mexican President Vicente Fox.
If, by 2050, the America we grew up in has become a Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart, it will be because of the treason of the elites, and our lack of will to overthrow them.
Here in Mo. a person can take a driving test in Spanish to get a license. Yet I've never seen one road sign that has any Spanish on it. Seems kind of dangerous to me if we have folks out there driving who can read road signs in English.
You must be a very rich lady if you think CA property taxes are low. Property taxes are based on the value of the home, and home values are very high, thus high property taxes. You can't really find a decent home in southern California for under $300,000. We just finished digging up $7,000 for our property taxes.
Young couples find that they must have two incomes to pay for a home and the taxes and their kids' education, all the while being forced to help support the millions of illegal aliens here. It's not a good thing, and the stealing from citizens to pay for illegal aliens must stop.
I do feel sorry for young couples who are trying to buy their first home here in southern Cal, and many of them can't, so they buy inland and have very long drives to their workplace on our crowded freeways. I'm glad I'm old.
Housing in the ghetto has never been that bad in LA. Visitors from other countries have often remarked on how fine our "ghetto" housing looked, compared to their image of a ghetto. But there are other indicators--the murder rate, welfare dependence, drop out rate, standardized test scores, drug use and gang membership. I remember talking to a black woman from Louisiana years ago. She had come here with her husband to work during WWII. For her the fifties were a golden era. On hot summer nights in South Central she and her husband would sleep in the back yard. Now she has bars on her windows and never goes out at night, let alone to sleep.
But bad as problems are in the black ghetto, it's the Hispanic part of town where the greater problems are now. There are more hispanics than blacks and their numbers are growing much faster. Furthermore, because of the open borders, the promimity of Mexico, the new residents aren't assimilating. We're being assimilated to Mexican values, as shown by the looting that followed the Rodney King trial riots. Try asking someone these days about free speech and the first amendment. They don't know what you're talking about. Their attitude is no one has the right to say anything that offends me. So much for Jeffersonian democracy.
To: wardaddy; iconoclast
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Here you go.
Peronism is an Argentine political ideology based on the ideas and programs associated with former president Juan Perón.
Perón was a pragmatic figure, and through the course of his long career his views would frequently change. His ideology was nevertheless marked by some constants, including:
* Strong authoritarian central leadership, with strict control of opposition forces. * Freedom from foreign influences. * A third way approach to economics; neither communist nor capitalist, but instead incorporating some elements of both
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416 posted on 04/03/2004 8:17:05 PM CST by Dane [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 401 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
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I see a link to an article but no date and your the one who posted it. Also freepers have links at post 76, 200, 252, and 309. No dates are given of those articles at those noted post. You should be consistent in your trivial criticism of peoples habits here when posting.
We bought our house in 1985. And we too fixed it up. New roof, earthquake proofing, new patio and new kitchen. If sales prices of a couple of houses on my block are any indication. Our house has tripled in value. If you don't mind my asking, what multiple do you figure for yours?
Sh#t.
I'm moving.
I have no idea, but if they're equal to ours, or if they're more, they're too much.
We're taxed every time we turn around here in CA. We have millions of illegal aliens to support, of course.
Here in Los Angeles the ballots come in three or four different languages. I always wondered why that was, given that immigrants have to pass an English test before they can become a citizen and vote. Does this mean they never did learn English? Or that they never became citizens in the first place? (Which raises the question, why are they voting?) About ten years ago, a Cal State professor did a little study of voter registration lists. He took a sample of Spanish surnames and then actually went to the trouble to see if he could determine if they had citizenship. If I recall correctly he was unable to verify American citizenship status for about 15% of the Spanish surname voters.
I never know if Pat is lamenting his fallen culture or his fallen career.
I don't think he sees a difference.
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