Illegal alien migration into the United States costs American taxpayers $346 billion annually reported by the National Research Council. While employers of illegal aliens rake-in billions of dollars, the US citizens subsidize what may be called organized “Slavery in 21st Century America.”
While Congress facilitates outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring of American jobs by the thousands weekly, that same Congress imports 182,000 legal immigrant monthly who need jobs. Another estimated 100,000 illegal aliens arrive each month without jobs. All those immigrants seize jobs from American citizens at slave wages.
What happens to the American taxpayer?
“Immigrants are poorer, pay less tax, and are more likely to receive public benefits than American citizens,” said Edwin Rubenstein, reporting on the National Research Council’s new book: “The New Americans: Economic, Demographics and Fiscal Effects of Immigration.” The Social Contract Winter 2007-08. www.thesoicalcontract.com
The NRC found that the average immigrant household receives $13,326 in federal welfare and pays $10,664.00 in federal taxes. Thus, American taxpayers shell out $2,682.00 for each immigrant household.
In addition, the report showed that immigrants affect 15 different executive agencies of the U.S. government.
- Earned Income Tax Credit—fraud is rampant and IRS does little to verify existence of children.
- Clean Air and Climate Change—these goals are unattainable as long as US population grows—driven by unending immigration.
- Emergency medical treatment—US taxpayer money provides $250 million a year to help hospitals defray costs for illegal aliens.
- Bureau of Land Management—the Interior Department spends $1 million to mitigate environmental damage done by illegals crossing US southern border.
- Migrant educational grants—intended to help states educate children of illegal workers. More fraud from over-counting.
- Office of Foreign Labor Certification—immigrant workers depress wages for US citizens resulting in declines in federal revenues at $100 billion annually.
As shown on CBS with Katie Couric this past week, 300,000 pregnant Mexican women cross the border to birth their babies, known as ‘anchor babies’, in American hospitals at an average cost of $6,000.00 per birth with no complications. If the child suffers heart defects, Downs Syndrome, Autism or any other problems, the costs jump to $500,000.00 with long term care into the millions of dollars. All footed by the America taxpayer!
Not mentioned in Couric’s report, that child enjoys free breakfasts and lunches through 13 years of publicly funded education at an average cost of $7,000.00 per year. Additionally, American taxpayers foot the bill for all medical and housing assistance for the child and mother. More hidden costs add up with ESL classes to teach the child English. Connecticut alone suffers 120 languages in their schools while Colorado suffers over 40 foreign languages that cripple their classrooms.
The list of expenses paid for by American taxpayer soars with time and numbers of illegal aliens. Additionally, legal immigrants sponsor their relatives in chain migration and family reunification at US taxpayer expense.
These immigrants take American jobs while they burn American taxpayer funds for immigrant welfare. This all happens while the US national debt approaches $10 trillion. Immigrants flood into this country while jobs cascade out to China where we owe $1 trillion in T-bills as of 2008. Additionally, we suffer a $700 billion annual trade deficit.
Once those illegal aliens hit this country, half of them work off the books and do not pay $401 billion dollars annually according to the 2005 Bear Stearns Report. Additionally, they form the second largest underground economy in the world. Both legal and illegal immigrants send $80 billion back to their home countries in cash transfers on untaxed money.
When does it end? Not any time soon! Who pays? You do! Like the proverbial golden calf, the United States taxpayer bleeds to death daily while our president and Congress fiddle, faddle and scratch their generous rear ends while they facilitate the death of America’s middle class.
Our politicians create the problems they campaign to solve; but once in office, as John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have proven with their time in the U.S. Senate—they work more against Americans than for them. The proof in the aforementioned report is, as they say, “in the pudding!”
Final note: I am looking for thinkers, writers and advocates to add to my monthly “Master Mind Think Tank.” In reality, our politicians create the problems that they campaign to solve. They never solve them; thus we spiral into deeper national chaos. I need new ideas and new creative thinkers to help me bring our most pressing issues onto the front burner: overpopulation in America caused by ceaseless legal and illegal immigration. As you know, the recent PEW report shows immigration adding 100 million people to our country in 30 years. We need to stop it and we need to stop it now. Join me in saving our civilization. frostyw@juno.com
Additionally: I am working on a book about loss of friendship. Have you lost a best friend? How did you feel? How did it happen? What caused the loss of your best friend? How did it affect your life? How did you heal from the emotional pain? If you would like to write two to five type-written pages, your story will be included in this forthcoming book with attribution or keep your name private. Please state that you give permission for me to use your story in this book: “Losing Your Best Friend: Missing Pieces”. Today, in America, our communities and friendships shatter because of misunderstandings, jealousies and high speed living. This book will help others who have suffered the loss of a best friend. frostyw@juno.com
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at his website www.frostywooldridge.com
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An old joke I used to tell often in my younger days is this: “Why do Mexican women swim the river and come here to have their babies?” The answer is : “Cuz Dr. Pepper costs 50 cents.”
Sure, that was a silly, insenstive, perhaps politically incorrect joke to tell, but rooted in my rural West Texas upbringing, it was a funny joke to tell while processing cattle or throwing down some beers at a honky-tonk.
Yet, perhaps, in reality, it is very true.
I have a family member who brown-nosed his way into taking over my wife’s extensive and very large family farming and ranching operation, due to a death in the family. Three years before, I chose to move to this valley and purchase a business in Aspen, thinking I’d probably end up back there running the farm and ranch with him when that day came. Anwyay, his foreman, Abe, has worked that land for ten years now. He lives in a beat up ol’ farm house on the farm with his family of four. A home he’s actually made quite nice over the years. He lives in the U.S. for 8 months every year, working his ass off, making American money, which is worth much, much more than a peso. He is a friend of mine, a good man, a man who understands why I choose to not be associated anymore with a business of government welfare and subsidies and hand-outs (another story I should tell!)
Recently, on a self exploring mission of finding myself again, perhaps a turning 40 middle-age renassiance… I ended up on his “ranch” in Mexico. He is building a home that makes my 3/4 of a million dollar upper middle class home here in this valley appear as a dump.
If I were in his shoes, I’d most likely be doing the same thing. He is participating in a “free world” economy. (funny what NAFTA really resulted in…) Coming here, legally, working his ass off, being lawful, responsible, etc. He makes good money, cash money. He sends that money home to Mexico, weekly, deposits it into an account, and manages his dealings and future life there in Mexico…. all with American money, while paying a Mexican accountant who was educated at an American University (my alma mater, to be exact.)
I actually admire him, because he is a human being, a person, a good person, a family man, a businessman.
He gets treated like shit often here in the U.S. because he is Mexican. Sure, welcome to the the United States of America. Yet, I treat him with respect. Albeit, I get back in my truck and drive away and wonder to myself… “what the hell is wrong with this picture?”
Pehaps I should just move to Mexico. Perhaps I should find me a place, and come here on a work visa and make all the money I can and take it back to Mexico to build my own mansion, to manage my own ranch. Perhaps some reverse psychology, reverse economics? Not sure, but that is reality, that is what is happening.
This is America? This is what I hope to pass on to my child and future generations? The land of opportunity? Opportunity for what? For others?
Building a fence along our entire southern border? What? You know how many towns and places unmentioned I’ve been to along our border? I’ve been there, many times. I used to buy cattle with my Dad in many of those blips on the map, with poor Mexican boys washing our windshield at every stop, with good lookin’ Mexican women flaunting their tits and everything else into our truck, looking for a satisfying cheap American buck. We’d rob them of their cattle, for cheap, really cheap, and we’d put some “American” medicine and feed on them, and sell them at absorbant profit at American cattle auctions, within the American free-enterprise system, many of which were hedged on the Chicago Board of Commodity Trading. So, sure, perhaps we rob the Mexicans too, on a daily basis.
Perhaps its time we simply bring our foriegn expenses and industrial military complex dollars back to our shores, and simply enforce the laws we have. Perhaps we can change the National Guard weekend parties into something more useful and subsantial by guarding our borders 24/7.
I rafted and camped in Big Bend National Park last month. At least a hundred times during that trip, I looked at places in the terrain and understood just how freakin’ easy it would be come into this country undetected. I also remembered just how much time and effort and lives and money we spent and still spend on guarding terrains such as that in other countries… i.e. Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.
I also was reminded of just how incredibly futile it would be to try to build a fence through that terrain. Are you kidding me? Have you been there and the hundreds of other places along our border like that? Put boots on the ground in those places, often. Pick’em up, send ‘em home. In time, they just might think it ain’t worth messing with the American military. In time, they might just start to refocus their efforts on their own country, and not ours, at our expense, at our cost, at our future. Enough for now. — B. Jon Traylor