Look at my location on my profile and you can guess what I do for a living. Legal immigrants have to prove that they or the petitioner whether it be family or employment-based can support themselves. But, for the most part, once they're in the U.S....it's a quick trip to the public assistance line. Also, non-immigrants with valid documents routinely enter the U.S. because they know Medicaid will foot the bill for any type of medical expense. Just say the word "Mary Kay" (sic), and they know what you're talking about. I apologize for the length of what follows, but I lost the link to it and just had to cut and paste.
We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context
>his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration
>overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of
>America's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the
>name of Victor Davis Hansen talked about his latest book, "Mexifornia,"
>explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the
>entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until
>it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
>
> Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and
>gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat
>spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United
>States. He said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too
>self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America. It is not that hard
>to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold
>Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An
>autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'"
>
> "Here is how they do it," Lamm said: "First, to destroy America, turn
>America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country." History
>shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of
>two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an
>individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be
>bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: "The
>histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are
>histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy." Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and
>Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for
>autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria
>suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques,
>Bretons, and Corsicans.".
>
> Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, "Invent multiculturalism'
>and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of
>belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences.
>Make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are
>due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other
>explanation is out of bounds.
>
> Third, "We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without
>much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As
>Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: "The apparent
>success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been
>achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once
>dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we are left
>with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together."
> Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own
>language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the
>salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various
>cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather
>than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."
>
> "Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least
>educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated,
>and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass
>have a 50% dropout rate from high school."
>
> "My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations
>and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic
>identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all
>minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the
>majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure
>on the majority population."
>
> "My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship ,
>and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I
>would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide
>are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not
>killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most
>historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation
>together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they
>belonged to the same race; they possessed a common Language and literature;
>and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic
>games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these
>bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and
>geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. "E.
>Pluribus Unum" --From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the
>emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize America
>as surely as Kosovo."
>
> "Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to
>talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word
>similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and
>paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and
>debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having
>established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine
>of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our
>immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has
>been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every
>individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions
>of them."
>
> In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow.
>Profound silence followed. Finally he said,. "Lastly, I would censor Victor
>Davis Hansen's book "Mexifornia." His book is dangerous. It exposes the
>plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed,
>don't read that book."
>
> There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous
>cloud above every attendee at the conference . Every American in that room
>knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly,
>darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Discussion is being
>suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our
>educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that
>practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.'
>American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a
>Third World in America - take note of California and other states - to
>date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of
>George Orwell's book "1984." In that story, three slogans are engraved in
>the Ministry of Truth building: "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," and
>"Ignorance is strength."
>
> Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the
>conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply
>in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster
>stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and
>destroy everything in its path especially The American Dream.
don't forget the kids that didn't get born after 1970 who would not only be workers, but also contributing into Social Security for you `young whipper-snappers' to collect later in life!
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