Posted on 02/06/2010 7:41:20 AM PST by Syncro
Amy Kremer of the Tea Party Express on now.
She is saying the bickering is unnecessary, and we need to support each other.
Don't back down because of negativity of some.
If you don't like what another group is doing, ignore them
We have one chance, and the time is now
We need to stick together.
Today is Ronald Reagan's 99th birthday!
Immigration is a big issue but not the only big issue.
The growth of government size and power is another very big issue . If this growth of government is not stopped then no other issue will matter as the U.S. will turn into the socialist USSR. No one is better than Palin is against big government.
Plus Palin is not for Amnesty for illegals.
If you think there is only one issue then you all need to have your head examined.
Oooh! Another pleasant response to a simple question.
We simply want to know what Palin's position is.
But, since you are incapable of acting like an adult I would guess you don't have the answer either. Do you?
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Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased from 203 million to 306 million, i.e., over 100 million. In the next 40 years, the population will increase by 135 million. Three-quarters of the increase in our population since 1970 and the projected increase will be the result of immigration. The U.S., the world’s third most populous nation, has the highest annual rate of population growth of any developed country in the world, i.e., 0.975% (2009 estimate), principally due to immigration.
Immigration, legal and illegal, has had and will continue to have a major and far-reaching impact across a broad spectrum of existential challenges that confront this nation, e.g., national security, the economy/global competitiveness, jobs, health care, taxes, energy independence, education, entitlement reform, law enforcement, social welfare programs, physical infrastructure, the environment, civil liberties, and a continued sense of national identity/shared sense of endeavor. Immigration is the defining issue of our time with enormous implications for the future of this nation and the preservation of our patrimony. Yet, seldom will you hear immigration mentioned by our political and intellectual elites in connection with these challenges.
Jobs and Wages – The latest data show 22.1 million immigrants holding jobs in the U.S. with an estimated 7 million being illegal aliens. By increasing the supply of labor between 1980 and 2000, immigration reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men by an estimated $1,700 or roughly 4 percent. Among natives without a high school education, who roughly correspond to the poorest tenth of the workforce, the estimated impact was even larger, reducing their wages by 7.4 percent. The reduction in earnings occurs regardless of whether the immigrants are legal or illegal, permanent or temporary. It is the presence of additional workers that reduces wages, not their legal status. We are bringing in 125,000 LEGAL FOREIGN WORKERS A MONTH NOW.
Energy Independence – Our pro-population growth immigration policies will account for about three-quarters of the projected increase of 135 million in our population over the next 40 years. This is the equivalent of adding approximately the combined populations of the UK and Germany. How does population growth impact our energy needs? According to Population-Environment Balance (PEB), 93 percent of the U.S. increase in energy use since 1970 can be attributed to population growth. In 1970 the US consumed 14.7 million barrels of oil a day compared to approximately 22 million barrels today with about 70% of the total now being imported. The Democrats are preaching conservation and Green technology, but fail to mention increased demand due to immigration-fueled population growth. We will have to run just to stand still in terms of meeting our future energy needs. If we were to reduce our annual immigration to 300,000 from the current 1.2 million, by 2060 the population would be 80 million less than the projected 468 million. How much energy would that save?
Health Care – 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. Our Emergency Rooms have been turned into free health care clinics for immigrants, legal and illegal, affecting the quality and timeliness of services and increasing medical costs subsidized by the insured and the taxpayers.
Education – Immigration accounts for virtually all of the national increase in public school enrollment over the last two decades. In 2007, there were 10.8 million school-age children from immigrant families in the U.S. Although immigrants account for 13 percent of the population, they comprise 21 percent of the school age population.
Social Welfare Programs – 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. Massive low-skill immigration works to counteract government anti-poverty efforts. While government works to reduce the number of poor persons, low-skill immigration pushes the poverty numbers up. In addition, low-skill immigration siphons off government anti-poverty funding and makes government efforts to shrink poverty less effective. Milton Friedman said, “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
The growth of government size and power is another very big issue .
The growth of big government is a product of immigration, which has driven population growth and added millions to the welfare rolls and to the Dem Party, the party of big government.
87 percent of the 1.2 million legal immigrants entering annually are minorities as defined by the U.S. Government and almost all of the illegal aliens are minorities. By 2023 half of the children 18 and under in the U.S. will be classified as minorities and by 2042, half of the residents of this country will be minorities. Generally, immigrants and minorities vote predominantly for the Democrat Party. Hence, Democrats view immigration as a never-ending source of voters that will make them the permanent majority party.
Since the 1965 Immigration Act, our pro-population growth immigration policies have fueled major demographic changes in a very short period of time. In 1970, non-Hispanic whites comprised 89 percent of the population; today they are 66 percent; and by 2042, they will be 50 percent. The Democrats, under the banner of multiculturalism and diversity, have forged a political coalition that depends on individuals coalescing around racial and ethnic identities rather than the issues. The continuing and increasing flow of minority immigrants, mostly poor and uneducated, provide a natural constituency for the Democrats, which see them as their principal source of political power.
If you think there is only one issue then you all need to have your head examined.
You do not even have a clue as to how mass immigration since 1965 has drastically changed this country. I suggest you read Robert Rector's, Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts To paraphrase Vicne Lombardi, immigration is not everything, it is the only thing. Big government is one of the products. With one in 8 in this country now foreign born and heading towards one in 5 by 2050, we are becoming more and more Balkanized along ethnic, linguistic, and racial lines. And the vast majority of these immigrants have a much different view of the role of government than the vision of our Founders.
Plus Palin is not for Amnesty for illegals.
We figure that why sucks everyone should know about FR but alas...most folks are just not as informed as we are...if one just peruses FR daily they get a head’s up
Most of the thousands of government agencies like the EPA, FCC,FDA,FEC, NASA, dept of energy, dept of transportation, social security, welfare,dept of education, etc. were not created because of immigration but because of an ideology called marxism/liberalism/progressivism. The U.S. was made of immigrants and even up until the late 1800’s the government was small and limited even with the majority of Americans being immigrants . The government in the 1800's was not the monstrosity is now with thousands of agencies, thousands of laws etc. Every day many new laws get passed into law at the local , state, and federal level. Our private businesses and we the people are being chocked to death by government growth which includes more agencies all the time, new laws almost every day etc.
You clearly need help if think most of these agencies are being created because of immigration and that immigration is the only issue.
Did you even read what I wrote or comprehend it? I am not talking about illegal immigration. It is legal immigration that is more of a problem. We don't need 1.2 million LEGAL IMMIGRANTS A YEAR, most of whom are poor and uneducated. We will add 135 million to our population in the next 40 years, 75% due to immigration.
Big government is not caused by immigration. There were thousands of government agencies, thousands of government laws , and thousands of government programs created before the democrat Kennedys’ 1965 immigration act. Government growth is caused by marxism/liberalism/democrats/socialism . The U.S. was made of immigrants and even up until the late 1800’s the government was small and limited even with the majority of Americans being immigrants.
Again, you are missing the point. In 1960, we had a population of 179 million. Today it is 309 million. Most of the increase has been driven by immigration. If you almost double the population in 50 years, the size of government has to increase. Moreover, when you bring in people who are poor and uneducated they are going to be a net drain on the society hence Milton Friedman's statement.
FDR started the welfare state and it has grown ever since. Immigration has increased the costs and "need" for a welfare state. The larger our population becomes, the greater the size of the welfare state. Immigration either drives or significantly impacts every major challenge this country faces. It is a controlable variable that is an integral part of any solution to these challenges.
You clearly need help if think most of these agencies are being created because of immigration and that immigration is the only issue.
You clearly have a reading comprehension problem
WHO IS THIS?
Even if all immigration is stopped that won’t stop government idiots from writing more laws and creating more agencies.
I am for deporting illegals. I for abolishing govenrment agencies and getting government out of the economy and decreasing government size in relation to the private sector.
What don’t you understand that America is a nation of immigrants? It was the native Americans who were here first.
Europeans immigrated to America mainly in the 1700’s, 1800’s and 1900’s. The government didn’t start growing in size and power until the 1900’s.
America’s population increased many times over in the 1800’s mainly driven by immigration. Yet the government did not grow. what about that don’t you understand?
By 1900 America’s population had grown many many times the original number but the government was still very limited, small and didn’t not control the people’s lives and economy like it does now. What about that don’t you understand? In fact immigration rate was greater as percentage of population because the population was smaller. You say that now we have 1.2 million immigrants per year but that is only 1/3 of 1% of the 300 million population. In the 1800’s immigration rate was greater yet the government didn’t grow and the government wasn’t crippling the economy and takingthe people’s freeedom.
The many thousands of government agencies created like the EPA, FDA, FEC, FCC, NASA, IRS, HUD, HHS, dept of energy, dept of transportation, etc. have nothing to do with immigration. There are in addition thousands of thousand page laws that have increased government power and size that have nothing to do with legal or illegal immigration. seek psychiatric help or get a brain.
Immigration is a major contributing factor to the increase in the size of government. In the next 50 years we will be a nation of half a billion people with 75% of that growth attributable to immigration, a controllable variable, not a given. We were a nation of 125 million when FDR began his welfare state. Our legal immigration levels remained fairly level between 1920 to 1965 at 300,000 a year. They are now at 1.2 million.
I am for deporting illegals. I for abolishing govenrment agencies and getting government out of the economy and decreasing government size in relation to the private sector.
So am I but how are you going to achieve that when you are importing poverty and changing the demographics of the country that will make the Dems the permanent majority party? Immigrants and minorities vote Dem. By 2023 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities and by 2042 half of the country will be. Almost half of Americans don't pay any income tax. Immigrants use social welfare programs more than twice as much as the native born. 75% of the population growth of this country comes from immigration. And the vast majority of these immigrants come from the third world and have a much different view of the role of government.
What don’t you understand that America is a nation of immigrants? It was the native Americans who were here first. Europeans immigrated to America mainly in the 1700’s, 1800’s and 1900’s. The government didn’t start growing in size and power until the 1900’s.
If you knew your history, you would know that there was a tremendous backlash against immigration in the 1920s, which resulted in legislation that limited the numbers and where the people came from. It was the 1965 Immigration Act that changed this country forever Did you know that immigrants in the late 1800s and early nineteen hundreds had higher educational levels than the native born? Today. just the opposite is the case.
Immigrants in the United States, 2007: A profile of America's Foreign-Born Population
America is not a nation of immigrants. About 85% of the people were born here. FYI: My wife is an immigrant; my grandmother was an immigrant. I am an immigrant activist who lobbies on the Hill on immigration issues. I have also lived 25 years of my adult life overseas in 9 different countries.
Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. The big difference today is that many of these immigrants are not assimilating. Professor Huntington described very well these differences in his essay, The Hispanic Challenge and his book, Who are We? Our national identity and patrimony are at stake as we have an unprecedented number of foreign born in this country, 40 million, and within 40 years one in five.
In fact immigration rate was greater as percentage of population because the population was smaller. You say that now we have 1.2 million immigrants per year but that is only 1/3 of 1% of the 300 million population. In the 1800’s immigration rate was greater yet the government didn’t grow and the government wasn’t crippling the economy and takingthe people’s freeedom.
I provided you the figures above. One in 8 this country is foreign born, the highest it has been in over 80 years. In a decade, it will be one in 7 the highest in our history. So even using that phony measure, immigration is higher than it has ever been.
It is not the 1800s or 1900s any more. We have changed from an agrarian society to a technological one and we are the third largest country in the world in terms of population, i.e., 310 million.. In 1900 Amercia's population was 60% rural; today it is 21%. In 1900, total government spending at all levels equaled about 5.5% of the economy; by 2003 it was more than 36%. The welfare state started with FDR, but we brought in many immigrants in the early 1900s from Eastern Europe and many of them were socialists and communists.
There are in addition thousands of thousand page laws that have increased government power and size that have nothing to do with legal or illegal immigration. seek psychiatric help or get a brain.
You really are a jerk and an uninformed one as well. Milton Friedman said that “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.” We cannot continue to import poverty and think that we can roll back the welfare state and the growth of government. We didn't have a welfare state during the earlier great waves of immigration.
To put into perspective the increase in immigration in this country in just sheer numbers, fully one-thrd of all the people ever to move to the US, starting from the first Siberian to cross the Bearing land bridge in search of game, have arrived since 1965. Demography is destiny.
Immigration is a major contributing factor to the increase in the size of government. In the next 50 years we will be a nation of half a billion people with 75% of that growth attributable to immigration, a controllable variable, not a given. We were a nation of 125 million when FDR began his welfare state. Our legal immigration levels remained fairly level between 1920 to 1965 at 300,000 a year. They are now at 1.2 million.
I am for deporting illegals. I for abolishing govenrment agencies and getting government out of the economy and decreasing government size in relation to the private sector.
So am I but how are you going to achieve that when you are importing poverty and changing the demographics of the country that will make the Dems the permanent majority party? Immigrants and minorities vote Dem. By 2023 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities and by 2042 half of the country will be. Almost half of Americans don't pay any income tax. Immigrants use social welfare programs more than twice as much as the native born. 75% of the population growth of this country comes from immigration. And the vast majority of these immigrants come from the third world and have a much different view of the role of government.
What don’t you understand that America is a nation of immigrants? It was the native Americans who were here first. Europeans immigrated to America mainly in the 1700’s, 1800’s and 1900’s. The government didn’t start growing in size and power until the 1900’s.
If you knew your history, you would know that there was a tremendous backlash against immigration in the 1920s, which resulted in legislation that limited the numbers and where the people came from. It was the 1965 Immigration Act that changed this country forever Did you know that immigrants in the late 1800s and early nineteen hundreds had higher educational levels than the native born? Today. just the opposite is the case.
Immigrants in the United States, 2007: A profile of America's Foreign-Born Population
America is not a nation of immigrants. About 85% of the people were born here. FYI: My wife is an immigrant; my grandmother was an immigrant. I am an immigrant activist who lobbies on the Hill on immigration issues. I have also lived 25 years of my adult life overseas in 9 different countries.
Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. The big difference today is that many of these immigrants are not assimilating. Professor Huntington described very well these differences in his essay, The Hispanic Challenge and his book, Who are We? Our national identity and patrimony are at stake as we have an unprecedented number of foreign born in this country, 40 million, and within 40 years one in five.
In fact immigration rate was greater as percentage of population because the population was smaller. You say that now we have 1.2 million immigrants per year but that is only 1/3 of 1% of the 300 million population. In the 1800’s immigration rate was greater yet the government didn’t grow and the government wasn’t crippling the economy and takingthe people’s freeedom.
I provided you the figures above. One in 8 this country is foreign born, the highest it has been in over 80 years. In a decade, it will be one in 7 the highest in our history. So even using that phony measure, immigration is higher than it has ever been.
It is not the 1800s or 1900s any more. We have changed from an agrarian society to a technological one and we are the third largest country in the world in terms of population, i.e., 310 million.. In 1900 Amercia's population was 60% rural; today it is 21%. In 1900, total government spending at all levels equaled about 5.5% of the economy; by 2003 it was more than 36%. The welfare state started with FDR, but we brought in many immigrants in the early 1900s from Eastern Europe and many of them were socialists and communists.
There are in addition thousands of thousand page laws that have increased government power and size that have nothing to do with legal or illegal immigration. seek psychiatric help or get a brain.
You really are a jerk and an uninformed one as well. Milton Friedman said that “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.” We cannot continue to import poverty and think that we can roll back the welfare state and the growth of government. We didn't have a welfare state during the earlier great waves of immigration.
To put into perspective the increase in immigration in this country in just sheer numbers, fully one-thrd of all the people ever to move to the US, starting from the first Siberian to cross the Bearing land bridge in search of game, have arrived since 1965. Demography is destiny.
Hi, Yes, I carry FR cards with me most of the time.:) I give them out every chance I get. Have met many lurkers who just need a little push to join and post. I tell them we need their ideas and comments. Others who have not heard about FR are always pleased to take one of my cards and usually say they will visit FR.
Hubby and I went from Nashville to Winfield, AL to visit relatives. We are now in GA for tonight and will be home tomorrow as early as possible. We are still unwinding from driving and our wonderful seven day vacation in AL and TN! Needless to say, the banquet with Sarah was awesome! All the posts by our Freeper friend, “Freedom’s Worth It”, certainly express what the evening was like. :)Jean
Yes, I didn't here Huck's comments, but have known for some time that he is a RINO Socialist. Isn't is wonderful how the DEMS and RINOS are imploding daily over the ever growing grassroots movement that is going to vote them ALL OUT? We will do it without a designated “leader” and we will replace them with “real constitutional leaders” of our choice! Keep an eye on the next “special election” in my state of Florida on April 13th. We will be sending Ed Lynch to Congress to take Wexler’s vacated seat! :)
Hi there STT and Mr. STT.
So glad to know you got to your next destination safely and are bound for home tomorrow!!! (prayers for travleling mercies for that trip too).
And so glad to have met you and hubby and wardaddy and mrs wardaddy! AND all the Teapartiers we met!
Even if the banquet food had been awful, and if all the lights and audio had gone out and we couldn’t hear one word of what Sarah Palin said - I would be grateful for the chance to have me you all!
But, ha ha ha ha ha, despite all the best attempts at disruption by ....you know....the people/forces who don’t like us....the food wss fantastic, the lights stayed on, the audio video feeds were perfect - and, to top it all off - we were prssent - and got to relay to others - the gist of the most important event in the current revolution - so far! Woohoo - you can’t get any better than that!
OH - AND it all was broadcast for millions to see/hear by none other than all those media outlets who hate our/her guts!
Is life good or what?
(Drive safely home STT and thank you for being the traveling ambassador that you are. Gotta get some of those FR business cards!)
thanks for report! is there a list anywhere of the FReepers that were at the convention? I so much wanted to be part of the event.
OH - AND it all was broadcast for millions to see/hear by none other than all those media outlets who hate our/her guts!
Is life good or what?
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YES AND YES AND............
After a speech today, a headline reads, “Sarah Palin likens global warming studies to ‘snake oil’” and a reporter in the room during the evening session, tweets, that Sarah just said, “Al Gore thinks I’m a sinner!”
LOL.
LIFE IS GOOD!
GO SARAH!!!
I don’t know of such a list.
But the ones I know who were present include yours truly, seekthetruth, (her other half), wardaddy (his other half), Recon Dad, and Freedom Poster.
Am sure there were others but don’t know who else was there from FR.
The Teaparty movement is so huge that almost everyone I have spoken to about it know at least one person who is involved in it!
WOOHOO!!!
(but shhhh, don’t tell anyone)
Would have loved to have met you there too!
I know many wanted to be there but couldn’t be for an assortment of reasons.
My being there was sort of a fluke that just worked itself out by God’s grace and good humor!
So, I fully understand (and would be having the same) aching feelings of, um....let’s be honest - jealousy, wishing I could have been there, etc, etc. etc. That’s how I felt after reading all the reports of the 9-12 march which I did not attend.
But = that ballroom could not hold all of Freeperdom, you know. It could not hold all of the Teaparty movement participants either (the two of which overlap in many ways).
I was just very happy that the lsm broadcast THE SPEECH live on all their networks of hatred.....LOLOLOL!!!!
Was that rich or what???
Am sure there will be many similarly inspired events in many locations across the country that FReepers will be able to attend, participate in, lead, or help with.
The speech was of course THE highlight of the event (and the only part of the weekend that I could attend since the rest were sold out by the time I woke up and got myself signed up to attend....) But the entire convention is a model of, I believe, what is going to be the most effective focus of the TP movement going into the 2010 and 2012 elections locally, statewide, and nationally.
I commend the Tea Party Nation for it all.
OH - ROFLMAO!
See I wouldn’t know about that if you hadn’t reported it here! LOLOL.
thanks!
What is Free Republic if not an army of reporters unmatched in the entire world!
I am just trying to connect those proverbial dots....LOL.
DollyCali: “You betcha” we both LOVE “Citizen Sarah America”!!!
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