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A GLARING OMISSION.
May 15, 2006 -
May 22, 2006
During President Bush’s prime time speech on immigration Monday night he threw out a lot of numbers. A 1,200 mile border with Mexico. 6,000 National Guardsmen who will patrol that border under his plan. 6,000 new Border Patrol agents who will be added over the next couple of years. Those are all very interesting numbers. But the most important number was ignored by the President: how many immigrants will be allowed into this country if we follow his lead?
A study conducted by the Heritage Foundation (www.heritage.org) released on May 15 has the answer -- and the number is huge! In fact, the number is so large it is hard to understand how the President could overlook it. According to the study, if the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA) pending in the U.S. Senate is passed into law about 103 million people will immigrate into the U.S. over the next 20 years. ONE HUNDRED AND THREE MILLION. That number represents about one-third of the current U.S. population. In fact, the influx of immigrants into this country would increase from about a million a year to nearly 5 million a year if the President and the sponsors of CIRA have their way.
Under current immigration limits, about 19 million new immigrants will lawfully enter the U.S. over the next 20 years. But CIRA would increase that number by 84 million -- or more, since the actual number of immigrants the law would permit is much higher, about 193 million. If that full number allowed under the bill actually show up they would amount to 60% of the current U.S. population. Think America will be different in 20 years if nearly half of our population is foreign born? Speaks something other than English? Has loyalty to a country other than this one?
And can our taxpayers bear the burden that comes with this influx? The Heritage Foundation report also delves into the dramatic expansion of the welfare state that will accompany this flood of immigration:
• Half of all adult illegal immigrants lack a high-school degree. Among Latin American and Mexican immigrants, 60 percent lack a high-school degree and only 7 percent have a college degree. By contrast, among native-born U.S. workers, only 6 percent have failed to complete high school and nearly a third have a college degree.
• Immigrant households are about 50 percent more likely to use welfare than native-born households.
• Immigrants without a high-school degree (both lawful and unlawful) are two-and-a-half times more likely to use welfare than native-born individuals.
In his speech, the President called for a “reasoned and respectful” debate on immigration reform. Perhaps the President should start by putting the real numbers on the table so the debate can be based on the facts and truthful disclosure. America has been and remains a nation of immigrants; but no nation can survive and assimilate the sort of flood that the CIRA will produce. America is on the brink of the abyss and both political parties seem poised to push us over the edge. It is past time for Americans to push back.
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GUMBEL'S GAFFE GETS HIM A PASS. -
February 18, 2006 -
February 25, 2006
Despite the nearly hysterical hype by NBC and the sporting world, most Americans have been tuning out of the Winter Olympics. Most television networks chose to air re-runs rather than challenging the expected viewing domination of the Olympics. But those who chose to go head to head with the Olympics have fared very well. “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Desperate Housewives,” and “American Idol” are among the shows that won the battle for viewers by huge margins.
Maybe it is because curling is th... |
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BIGGER POLITICAL SHIFT MAY LOOM. -
February 6, 2006 -
February 13, 2006
Last Friday Democrat State Senator Don McLeary announced he was switching to the Republican Party. Although Republicans already enjoyed a numerical majority in the State Senate, the move by McLeary gives the Republicans an even larger margin of 18-15 over the Democrats. That margin is, however, much more significant than the numbers themselves indicate.
First, despite Republicans gaining a 17-16 numerical majority following the 2004 elections (the first Republican majority in the State... |
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BEWARE OF BOGUS POLLS -
January 8, 2006 -
January 15, 2006
BEWARE OF BOGUS POLLS
As we enter into another election year, politicians at every level will seek our attention, votes and money…and not necessarily in that order. In addition to being inundated with television commercials, direct mail pieces, radio ads, and automated phone calls we will also be subjected to numerous polls.
Candidates use polls internally to determine which attacks, and responses to opponents’ attacks, are most effective in “moving” voters one direction or an... |
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IT IS CHRISTMAS, GET OVER IT! -
December 1, 2005 -
December 7, 2005
It’s become an annual ritual. Each December we engage in a fight for Christmas against those who wish to eliminate it from existence. Now, the Anti-Christmas Crowd (ACC) does not target the holiday itself. Billions of dollars in Christmas sales, and all the taxes that pour into government coffers with those sales, would be lost if the holiday was actually eliminated. No, they just want to rid the world of the word “Christmas” due to the presumably harmful religious connotations associated with... |
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TIME FOR REAL HEALTHCARE REFORM IN TENNESSEE -
September 20, 2005 -
September 27, 2005
For over a decade Tennessee has struggled to manage the economic “black hole” of TennCare without ever addressing two key fundamental principles that must be a part of offering affordable access to health care: accountability and responsibility. Instead of fixing TennCare in reliance on those principles we have instead chosen to apply a series of expensive band-aids that allowed uncontrolled costs, rampant fraud and abuse, and fundamental design flaws which continue to threaten to break the back... |
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