[T.L.Sink]

You certainly raise some profound and disturbing questions and I don't presume to have the answer(s). My hope is that when this crisis becomes so devastating Americans will be forced out of denial and assume control because they'll realize that the very survival of the nation is at stake.

We're already becoming balkanized by special interest lobbies, not least of which is the illegal "no borders" lobby.

Can I refer you to my reply (#3) to Joe Boucher under "U.S. Population to Hit 300 Million" - in today's News/Act. ?

I'd be curious to hear your views on that. Regards,

[wgflyer]

Well, regarding your post #3, let me put it this way. I spent the better part of my life abroad, often in some pretty raunchy third world areas. I always held in the back of my mind a bright and shining remembrance of sparkling America. But each time I returned I found that America resembled the same seedy places I had reluctantly visited. Trash and litter abound. Our city parks would look no different if they were in Panama City, Panama. The symptoms of decay are endless. One notes that each time I returned there were more sections of town with bars or roll-up doors on shop windows and entrances, bars on residential windows, and more gated communities patrolled by dial-a-cops, more homeowners assns, and much more trash on our streets. I returned from the third world to...the third world!

What's left of America cowers deeper and deeper into denial and self built prisons, all the while electing liberals. In most depressed regions of the world that I have seen those few who are able to make a decent living isolate themselves from their "lessers". In America they once lived side by side. Now the middle class is raped to subsidized a new mass of foreign born poor who come to plunder with no goal other than plunder...and they are welcomed by the likes of Bush. This is not the nation into which I was born.