Even though American lifestyle has reverted back to the early 1960’s or late 1950’s, because of the degraded dollar (The buck has lost a third of its value in the last five years), there are still those who live as we lived 100 years ago, or as we might live 50 years from now, if the process continues. Examples are Mexicans, Chinese and Indians, to name three. These people want to come here and even with minimum wages and living in hovels, they are better off here than at home. So they do everything they can to cross borders and enter the US. This influx of foreigners, with no hindrance to speak of by the United States, has further caused our downfall.
Coupled with the eternal welfare system, when Mexicans cross into America and pick vegetables for a pittance, they harm us. After their work day, they or their kids go on criminal rampages which break all records in brutality. The statistics are frightening. Two thirds of all births in L.A. County are to illegals. 35% of all inmates in California prisons are illegals. Over 300,000 illegals in L.A. County are living in garages. The FBI says that half of all gang members are illegals. 60% of all HUD properties are illegals. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking only. In L.A. county, 5.1 million people speak English, and 3.9 million speak Spanish. They common dirge is, “We’d starve if they didn’t come in to harvest our crops, because Americans won’t work for those wages.” Nuts. If Americans would starve if they didn’t work, as happened before FDR’s welfare, they’d do anything to live and eat. John Steinbeck painted a pretty accurate picture of starvation and doing anything to get a job when he wrote, “The Grapes of Wrath.” Rent the movie and watch Henry Fonda and his family do anything to get work. FDR’s welfare came in sort of, but the fact is that without work, people would starve if government didn’t give handouts.
Illegals many times make more than minimum wage in the fields where they work, or wherever they work for that matter. There’s no welfare at home, so they sneak across our borders to just survive. Tens of billions of increasingly worthless dollars are wired back to Mexico every week, as a sort of welfare program in Mexico, because they have none. If the bums who are on the dole were cut off from the dole, you’d better believe they’d pick lettuce and be damned glad to do it. Being hungry isn’t fun. Receiving welfare checks is wonderful. It allows worthless people to eat, commit crimes such as robbery and rape. It is a grand thing to be able to live without work, which literally millions of Americans do with impunity. All the while they mutter that they wouldn’t think of working in the heat, picking fruit or vegetables in California. Why should they?
Illegals are getting free medical care, free schools for their non-English speaking kids, handouts of all kinds, and now drivers licenses in New York State. (Does anyone really know what Hillary believes?) Those who come here and don’t want to pick fruit, commit endless crimes, with only a small fraction of them solved. Governments of all states, except possibly Arizona, seem to take this mess with a wink and nod, and doing nothing to hinder the mass exodus from Mexico into America. Arizona of course, has Sheriff Arpiao, who treats criminals as they should be treated. He makes them live in tents with no coffee, TV, or other conveniences, and there’s nothing they can do about it. Isn’t that great? No wonder he continues to be re-elected. Suppose our borders were guarded, possibly with the 160,000 troops brought home from Iraq? Suppose the borders were posted with huge signs in Spanish which would read, ” NOTICE: Anyone crossing this border will be shot.” Suppose loudspeakers spoke these words in Spanish at 90 decibels, on a continuous basis, night and day at crossing points? Suppose Mexican TV was plastered with ads with such warnings? Suppose that American private property owners were allowed to shoot to kill anyone crossing onto their land? (Most of the American-Mexican border is private property.) You would shoot to kill a trespasser in your home, why not on your land, after fair warning was given which could not be misunderstood?
Why not, as they are caught, regardless of circumstances, send them back instantly? Why don’t banks refuse to wire money to Mexico? Why does the ACLU sue the city of Hazelton Pennsylvania for millions of dollars, when they pass an ordinance prosecuting anyone who knowingly rents to or hires an illegal? (I just sent a contribution to them to defend themselves). Why, why, why?
Those who are too far away to cross the borders, many times do it anyway by going into Mexico legally, and then crossing the borders illegally. Those who don’t do that, get jobs answering the phones in India, or making stuff for us to consume in China. As I finish this, the TV just announced that “Peeps” the long favorite candy of some, has transferred their manufacture to China, thus ’saving money,’ for the manufacturer. I never liked them anyway, but I damned sure won’t buy them now, nor Hershey, who is transferring its manufacture from Hershey Pennsylvania to Mexico. Even at 50 cents an hour with no benefits, Chinese are richer by far than their non-working fellow citizens. In other words, we are on our way down from our former wonderful way of life with lots of jobs,
America is buying stuff cheaper, now that it is made from China. This make the D.C. Gang less pressured and be able to lie more about inflation. According to their twisted thinking, if we can now buy a widget cheaper when it comes from China than it sold for when made in Toledo Ohio, America is better off. Not so, because this is just dragging us down to their level, and equalizing us. I don’t want to be equal to Chinese or Mexicans. The law of averages says that by bringing in stuff made by 50 cent an hour labor and having phones answered by $2 an hour labor, they are rising at our expense, and we are going down in our life style because of them. It’s all the cost of a degraded dollar.
Could Hershey stay in Pennsylvania and Peeps stay in the US by raising their prices? Yes, but as with votes in congress, one will be outvoted by the rest. Maybe China would invent “Beeps” and copy the formula. Maybe Mexicans would steal Hershey’s trademark with impunity and begin making their own chocolate. It is no excuse for Peeps or Hershey, and I can’t forgive them any more than the hundreds of other manufacturers who have turned tables on America. The D.C. Gang could raise tariffs to cover the degraded dollar and put Americans back to work, but we’d then really suffer a decreasing lifestyle and they’d all get thrown out of office too. Sending manufacture and phone answering overseas is the last gasp of a dying nation. A feeble effort to stay afloat after the ship has been torpedoed by the D.C. Gang.
The utter shallowness of Washington D.C. and the lack of guts is shocking. Every one of them knows that the debts they continually vote for are totally un-payable. Everyone of them knows that illegals are killing us, as is China and India. Every one of them knows that they could seal the borders and stop spending more than they take in. The all know that wars are a huge mistake, and are usually gotten into because of a failing economy and political ambitions. Yet they continue, year after year, term after term, decade after decade. Watching the political debates shows that Ron Paul is the only one with an ounce of sense, and even Democrat Dennis Kucinich makes a bit of sense also, but they are railroaded off the scene by the media or made fun of by saying that he has seen a UFO. I’ve seen several of them and even photographed one. Heaven only knows what the media would do to me if I ever ran!
Is there a solution for a decaying America? Yes, but it lies not in our backyards. It lies in Washington D.C. the home of thousands of lobbyists and 535 legislators on the take. More Friday.