ITīS TIME AMERICA DROPPED DOWN TO THE POVERTY LEVELS OF THE REST OF THE WORLD
Frosty Wooldridge
September 12, 2008
Grinding poverty exists in Africa, China, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South America, Indonesia, Russia and many other parts of the world. It chokes its victims in a vice-like grip of futility. It features disease, an uneducated populace, corruption and starvation.
Itīs called the Third World. Most of us have no clue how much suffering exists outside America while we spend $9.2 billion on weight loss programs every year.
Nonetheless, hundreds of letters arrive in my email box weekly from around America. But several times a month, letters arrive from foreign countries. One angry writer from Madras, India, a Mr. Singh, expressed his dim view of a piece I wrote concerning H-1B visas that displaced jobs from American citizens.
"I suppose you think Iīm the enemy," he said, "because I have taken one of your out-sourced jobs as well as an entire factory of workers here in India. However, we can make the product cheaper than you Americans. Your artificially high wages can not compete with our labor market. Besides, itīs time Americans drop their artificially high standard of living to the poverty levels of the rest of the world."
I wrote back, "Is it possible that you maintain an artificially low standard of living by sustaining an artificially high overpopulation level of 1.1 billion people? Wouldnīt India be better off with only 300 million like America? Wouldnīt China be better off with 300 million instead of 1.3 billion? Wouldnīt Bangladesh with 144 million people in a landmass the size of Ohio be better off with only a million? Wouldnīt your standard of living rise to the level of a First World country if you had a smaller population?"
Singh wrote back, "I never thought of it that way," he said. "You make an interesting point."
Nonetheless, he made an cogent point. America IS dropping its standard of living for all its citizens as this country suffers an invasion by millions of immigrants annually. Most people donīt realize the world population grows by 77 million annually which creates an endless line awaiting entry into the portals of America. Since 1965 when the Immigration Reform Act opened the floodgates to one million immigrants annually, we have been inundated with over 70 million. Still the world grows out of control with no end in sight.
How are we becoming impoverished like the Third World? For starters, the USA stands neck deep in $9.4 trillion debt. Consumer debt adds up to $2 trillion. Credit cards average a $9,149.00 balance according to Brian Williams at NBC. We pay $500 million of our tax dollars daily for interest on the debt.
Every state is in financial crisis. California runs a $14 billion debt. Texas stands at $10 billion according to the Dallas Morning News. But more frightening is the city and county debt across Texas that stands at $86.6 billion.
According to an Associated Press piece "Black Children in Deepest Poverty Up 50%" by Genaro C. Armas, May 1, 2003. The number of black children in extreme poverty rose sharply last year. From 622,000, the numbers stand at 932,000 and rising.
The United States runs a $700 billion a year trade deficit. Why? Simple. H-1B and L-1 visas removed one million U.S. jobs in the past 10 years. In-sourcing, out-sourcing and off-shoring of American jobs have left millions of us in unemployment lines. To top that off, legal and illegal immigrants sent $61 billion to their home countries last year. Thatīs $20 billion to Mexico, $25 billion to South America and $16 billion to Asia. Finally the drug trade annually siphons $100 billion in hard currency out of the United States. And the coup de Gras from last year was the cost of the Iraq War at a $544 billion budget spending deficit.
Notwithstanding, high school and college kids canīt find jobs because 12 to 20 million illegal aliens already work them.
Is America dropping down to Third World wages, standards of living and quality of life?
As we import over two million legal and illegal immigrants annually, yes, we diminish our own work force into the lowest standards of living. "Overpopulation can be avoided only if borders are secure; otherwise poor and overpopulated nations will export their excess to richer and less populated nations. It is time to turn our attention to this problem." Garret Hardin.
Are we complying with Singhīs idea that itīs about time we drop to the rest of the worldīs poverty levels? If the aforementioned items and Hardinīs thoughts are any indication, the answer is "Yes," weīre well on our way.
Sources: "Carrying Capacity, Growth and Resource Wars" by John Cairns, Jr.
The Social Contract, Fall 2003 Associated Press piece "Black Children in Deepest Poverty Up 50%" by Genaro C. Armas, May 1, 2003
"Population, Evolution and Birth Control" by Garret Hardin
Federal Debt Figures: U.S. Department of Treasury
California debt figures: Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggerīs office
Texas Debt Figures: Texas Bond Review Board
Itīs called the Third World. Most of us have no clue how much suffering exists outside America while we spend $9.2 billion on weight loss programs every year.
Nonetheless, hundreds of letters arrive in my email box weekly from around America. But several times a month, letters arrive from foreign countries. One angry writer from Madras, India, a Mr. Singh, expressed his dim view of a piece I wrote concerning H-1B visas that displaced jobs from American citizens.
"I suppose you think Iīm the enemy," he said, "because I have taken one of your out-sourced jobs as well as an entire factory of workers here in India. However, we can make the product cheaper than you Americans. Your artificially high wages can not compete with our labor market. Besides, itīs time Americans drop their artificially high standard of living to the poverty levels of the rest of the world."
I wrote back, "Is it possible that you maintain an artificially low standard of living by sustaining an artificially high overpopulation level of 1.1 billion people? Wouldnīt India be better off with only 300 million like America? Wouldnīt China be better off with 300 million instead of 1.3 billion? Wouldnīt Bangladesh with 144 million people in a landmass the size of Ohio be better off with only a million? Wouldnīt your standard of living rise to the level of a First World country if you had a smaller population?"
Singh wrote back, "I never thought of it that way," he said. "You make an interesting point."
Nonetheless, he made an cogent point. America IS dropping its standard of living for all its citizens as this country suffers an invasion by millions of immigrants annually. Most people donīt realize the world population grows by 77 million annually which creates an endless line awaiting entry into the portals of America. Since 1965 when the Immigration Reform Act opened the floodgates to one million immigrants annually, we have been inundated with over 70 million. Still the world grows out of control with no end in sight.
How are we becoming impoverished like the Third World? For starters, the USA stands neck deep in $9.4 trillion debt. Consumer debt adds up to $2 trillion. Credit cards average a $9,149.00 balance according to Brian Williams at NBC. We pay $500 million of our tax dollars daily for interest on the debt.
Every state is in financial crisis. California runs a $14 billion debt. Texas stands at $10 billion according to the Dallas Morning News. But more frightening is the city and county debt across Texas that stands at $86.6 billion.
According to an Associated Press piece "Black Children in Deepest Poverty Up 50%" by Genaro C. Armas, May 1, 2003. The number of black children in extreme poverty rose sharply last year. From 622,000, the numbers stand at 932,000 and rising.
The United States runs a $700 billion a year trade deficit. Why? Simple. H-1B and L-1 visas removed one million U.S. jobs in the past 10 years. In-sourcing, out-sourcing and off-shoring of American jobs have left millions of us in unemployment lines. To top that off, legal and illegal immigrants sent $61 billion to their home countries last year. Thatīs $20 billion to Mexico, $25 billion to South America and $16 billion to Asia. Finally the drug trade annually siphons $100 billion in hard currency out of the United States. And the coup de Gras from last year was the cost of the Iraq War at a $544 billion budget spending deficit.
Notwithstanding, high school and college kids canīt find jobs because 12 to 20 million illegal aliens already work them.
Is America dropping down to Third World wages, standards of living and quality of life?
As we import over two million legal and illegal immigrants annually, yes, we diminish our own work force into the lowest standards of living. "Overpopulation can be avoided only if borders are secure; otherwise poor and overpopulated nations will export their excess to richer and less populated nations. It is time to turn our attention to this problem." Garret Hardin.
Are we complying with Singhīs idea that itīs about time we drop to the rest of the worldīs poverty levels? If the aforementioned items and Hardinīs thoughts are any indication, the answer is "Yes," weīre well on our way.
Sources: "Carrying Capacity, Growth and Resource Wars" by John Cairns, Jr.
The Social Contract, Fall 2003 Associated Press piece "Black Children in Deepest Poverty Up 50%" by Genaro C. Armas, May 1, 2003
"Population, Evolution and Birth Control" by Garret Hardin
Federal Debt Figures: U.S. Department of Treasury
California debt figures: Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggerīs office
Texas Debt Figures: Texas Bond Review Board
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