Phyllis Schlafly: "Minority Births Are ‘Not A Good Thing’" - Do You Agree?
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Yesterday, the New York Times reported on new census data which showed, for the first time, that non-white births made up over 50 percent of all births in the United States last year.
It marked an important milestone, indicative of a changing United States that has long been considered the world’s melting pot. Or, if you’re the conservative, Phyllis Schlafly-backed Eagle Forum, it’s a clarion call that America is in grave danger of being overrun by uneducated, un-American brown people:
It is not a good thing. The immigrants do not share American values, so it is a good bet that they will not be voting Republican when they start voting in large numbers.
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Instead, the USA is being transformed by immigrants who do not share those values, and who have high rates of illiteracy, illegitimacy, and gang crime, and they will vote Democrat when the Democrats promise them more food stamps.
Setting aside for a minute the offensive way in which the Eagle Forum dismisses all of “the immigrants” as thoughtless criminals, it’s telling that The Eagle Forum views this as simply a political problem. The Eagle Forum’s political allies have long insisted on treating immigrants as second-class citizens, and rather than pivot their policy proposals to better accommodate the nation’s shifting demographics, the group seems instead to want to curb minorities’ procreation.
The Eagle Forum doesn’t dwell on the fringes of the conservative movement either. The group still wields considerable influence in conservative circles, and has achieved more than a few legislative victories, like derailing the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and staunchly opposing bills aimed at protecting a women’s right to choose.
The post goes on to accuse immigrants — and, for reasons passing understanding, The New York Times for reporting on this — of seeking to “destroy the American family,” arguing that immigrants do not share American values. Of course, this is hardly the first time The Eagle Foundation has pushed xenophobia.
Read More: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/18/486574...
My family roots go back 500 years to America. My brothers were in the military, my brother and I both are educated with degrees from college.
If this statement is about any "un-educated brown person" as the article says, I find it hilariously wrong. I know MANY educated minorities.
It is the educated "idiots" that concern me. You know the ones that have compared a persons skin color to the intelligence of a person.
I actually cannot take these educated idiots who teach intolerance seriously. I was taught better than that.
Secondly, I was born and raised in Hawaii so I am used to living in a mix culture. Find it superior to living in a lilly white neighborhood behind gates with 50 guns in my house to protect me from some imaginary threat.
I will also say I am an atheist, no gods involved in my thinking or mores. And apparently christianity has been powerless to prevent what we are talking about.
My child is 7 years old 3/4 of his class English is their second language. The teacher need to give these children double the attention since they don't comprendo. The others speak Hindi and Japanese.
Muslims have large amounts of children as an invasion technique.
In twenty more years of over breeding they will be the majority of legal voters in Britain. They have successfully conquered England.
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Let me tackle the "militarily" one first. The U.S. came out of World War II in pretty good shape. Why? Mainly because the war was not fought on our soil so our industries were not in shambles as so many other countries were. Consequently, we didn't have to begin from scratch. Couple that with the Cold War era when we were constantly making certain that the Soviet Union didn't surpass us, and you can see why we would have the largest military.
As far as economically, that's currently on rather shaky ground. Historically the world's major commodities have been traded with the U.S. dollar as their base. I mean, how fortunate for us that Middle East oil is priced at U.S. dollars per barrel. If we have a problem, we'll just print more dollars. But there are rumblings of major changes happening - where the dollar will no longer be the standard for commodities such as oil. When that happens, hold onto your hat!
But I was speaking of the last 25 years of governance. Our current status is so positive because of the momentum built from 70 years ago. I haven't seen much of anything come out of Washington since that time that would cause me to consider us to be *anything more than* collecting on the residuals of what we used to be.
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Also the US was paid during the Lend Lease Agreement for its help
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Here is the economic growth of the US in 70 years:
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"The economy of the United States is a mixed economyand has maintained a stable overall GDP growth rate, a moderate unemployment rate, and high levels of research and capital investment. It has been the world's largest national economy (not including colonial empires) since at least the 1890s.Most of the economy is classified as services. As of 2012, the country remains the world's largest manufacturer, representing a fifth of the global manufacturing output.Of the world's 500 largest companies, 133 are headquartered in the United States. This is twice the total of any other country."
"The United States entered the 21st century with an economy that was bigger, an...
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http://www.newser.com/story/1...
http://247wallst.com/2011/04/...
Also the US was paid during the Lend Lease Agreement for its help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but I digress.
Here is the economic growth of the US in 70 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://krakow.usconsulate.gov...
http://infopedia.usembassy.or...
"The economy of the United States is a mixed economyand has maintained a stable overall GDP growth rate, a moderate unemployment rate, and high levels of research and capital investment. It has been the world's largest national economy (not including colonial empires) since at least the 1890s.Most of the economy is classified as services. As of 2012, the country remains the world's largest manufacturer, representing a fifth of the global manufacturing output.Of the world's 500 largest companies, 133 are headquartered in the United States. This is twice the total of any other country."
"The United States entered the 21st century with an economy that was bigger, and by many measures more successful, than ever. Not only had it endured two world wars and a global depression in the first half of the 20th century, but it had surmounted challenges ranging from a 40-year Cold War with the Soviet Union to extended bouts of sharp inflation, high unemployment, and enormous government budget deficits in the second half of the century. The nation finally enjoyed a period of economic calm in the 1990s: prices were stable, unemployment dropped to its lowest level in almost 30 years, the government posted a budget surplus, and the stock market experienced an unprecedented boom.
In 1998, America's gross domestic product (the total output of goods and services) exceeded $8.5 trillion. Though the United States held less than 5 percent of the world's population, it accounted for more than 25 percent of the world's economic output. Japan, the world's second largest economy, produced about half as much. And while Japan and many of the world's other economies grappled with slow growth and other problems in the 1990s, the American economy recorded the longest uninterrupted period of expansion in its history."
" the United States had been undergoing profound economic change at the beginning of the 21st century. A wave of technological innovations in computing, telecommunications, and the biological sciences were profoundly affecting how Americans work and play. At the same time, the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the growing economic strength of Western Europe, the emergence of powerful economies in Asia, expanding economic opportunities in Latin America and Africa, and the increased global integration of business and finance posed new opportunities as well as risks. All of these changes were leading Americans to re-examine everything from how they organize their workplaces to the role of government. Perhaps as a result, many workers, while content with their current status, looked to the future with uncertainty."
Digital History, Steven Mintz. "Digital History". Digitalhistory.uh.edu. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
Vargo, Frank (March 11, 2011). "U.S. Manufacturing Remains World’s Largest". Shopfloor. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
"Emerging countries catch up with the U.S.
Since the 1970s emerging countries have caught up with rich countries. These countries are learning to produce the same products and services that previously only the U.S. and a few other countries could produce. Real income growth in North America, Europe and Japan has been slower than previously. The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, created the largest trade bloc in the world in 1994.
Since 1976, the US has sustained trade deficits with other nations, and since 1982, current account deficits; the nation's long-standing surplus in its trade in services was maintained, however, and reached US$140 billion yearly in 2008 and 2009. In recent years, the primary economic concerns have centered on: high household debt ($11 trillion, including $2.5 trillion in revolving debt)," The economic problems arose not because of war but unregulated capitalism, risky financial decisions being financially rewarded, sub-prime mortgages, people spending money they didn't have. I'll look for a graphs.
Zuckerman, Mortimer B. (December 15–22, 2008), Editorial: Heading Off a Depression, US News and World Report
Bivens, L. Josh (December 14, 2004). Debt and the dollar Economic Policy Institute. Retrieved on July 8, 2007.
"Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs" article by Peter S. Goodman in The New York Times February 20, 2010
Associated Press (January 30, 2006).US savings rate hits lowest level since 1933MSNBC. Retrieved on May 6, 2007.
Cauchon, Dennis and John Waggoner (October 3, 2004). The Looming National Benefit Crisis. USA Today
dollar hits record low against euro, oil prices rally
US recession 'began last year', BBC News, December 1, 2008, retrieved December 1, 2008
Nevertheless, as was pointed out, unregulated capitalism (lawmakers giving into lobbyists in return for perks) and business run amok is at the heart of our current problems - so I'm still failing to see how our white-dominated government has done any more than bring us to the brink of the same disaster for which you're criticizing other countries.