Are American Hispanics Stupid ? They Have No Reason to Hate Trump

[protectionist]

Nothing other than the fact that when you start writing a sentence or paragraph, you first name the subject, and there after you can use pronouns to refer back to the subject.

The subject is Mexico. The pronouns used are "they" which clearly refers back to "Mexico", or in this case he uses the third person plural "they" meaning "Mexicans" rather than just "Mexico" which would be "it".

So you tell me which word in what Trump said you think "they" refers back to.

I don't need coaching, fool. I already coached & corrected you.

 

[protectionist]

Yes, he said Mexicans. But he didn't say ALL Mexicans. so to anyone who isn't trying to spin his words into something bigoted, because they think that will be a useful tool for them politically, he obviously was talking about those particular Mexicans who ARE rapists, murderers and bringing drugs. Now stop LYING.

No, he didn't say "ALL Mexicans". Nor did he say "some Mexicans" or "Many Mexicans". He said "Mexico" and then referred to Mexico in the third person plural. So "they" would be the people from "Mexico", and people from "Mexico" happen to be what?

What you're trying to do is pretend he didn't say what he said, and that he meant something else. He may well have meant something else. But get this. A politician who can't say what he thinks should not be worshiped. He should be seen for what he is, someone who will open his mouth before thinking and get himself into trouble.

So, what he ACTUALLY SAID was that "Mexicans are rapists", now, this might not be considered to be all, but a generalization at best, but even so, even as a generalization, Mexicans aren't rapists. Some are. Most aren't.

But again, the worrying thing is that mouth on Trump.[/QUOTE]
We all know what he said. And we also all know the BULLSHIT of the Trump-bashers.

 

[protectionist]

Do native people deserve to be paid more for working less hard than other people?

There shouldn't BE any "other people."

 

[frigidweirdo]

Nothing other than the fact that when you start writing a sentence or paragraph, you first name the subject, and there after you can use pronouns to refer back to the subject.

The subject is Mexico. The pronouns used are "they" which clearly refers back to "Mexico", or in this case he uses the third person plural "they" meaning "Mexicans" rather than just "Mexico" which would be "it".

So you tell me which word in what Trump said you think "they" refers back to.

I don't need coaching, fool. I already coached & corrected you.

Oh, now we move on to the insults.....

 

[protectionist]

We've been hearing these sob stories for years about poor employers who supposedly hav eto have foreign workers. What nonsense. All over America, workers are working in tougher jobs than picking fruit and vegetables, and many for less money that 9.25/hour. Think stocking shelves in deaprtment stores is easy ? Try it sometime. Stockers in Target get minimum wage > $7.25/hour.

Want to hear about some really tough, dirty, and dangerous jobs ? Try being a construction worker in the US Army Corps of Engineers. I was for 5 years. We (Americans) in the Army National Guard, built an M4T6 bridge across a river whose regular bridge was damaged by a hurricane. We worked sunrise to sunset, 94 degrees, high humidity, heavy weight army fatigues (long pants/longsleeve shirts), worked both rain or shine, wore steel pot helmets, full pistol belt with canteen and pack, combat boots.
Now comes the interesting part. After getting the BIG, black, rubber floats strapped together, and all across the river, we then started loading the BALKS. They're 20 feet long, 2 feet wide, 2 feet tall, made of steel, and weigh half a ton each. IN the army, there are no cranes. These balks have HANDLES on them. 10 on each side. After unloading these monsters off the truck. WE lug them. From the truck, down a rough, bumpy slope to the bridge site. Then again, the sergeant says "Ready....Heave" And we lift (50 pounds per man), and we carry it on to the bridge, and put it in place. Hopefully, it's not wet and slippery.

This is absolutely the hardest work there is in America. No, there were no foreigners there. No Mexicans. Good thing. We didn't have any paramedics on hand to administer to them, when they faint, just from watching us.

PS - I haven't seen too many Mexicans among those cops and firemen who died at the world trade center on 9-11. Or with too many firefighters right now. Or the troops in Afghanistan. Or in the coal mines in Kentucky.

Also, the notion that Americans won't do jobs that immigrants will, was dispelled by US Census Bureau data studied in 2011 that showed that notion was FALSE.

Of the 472 civilian occupations examined, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Moreover, native-born Americans still comprise 46 percent of workers even in these occupations.

• Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly immigrant (legal and illegal) are in fact majority native-born:
  
  • Maids and housekeepers: 51 percent native-born
  • Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 58 percent native-born
  • Butchers and meat processors: 63 percent native-born
  • Grounds maintenance workers: 64 percent native-born
  • Construction laborers: 66 percent native-born
  • Porters, bellhops, and concierges: 72 percent native-born
  • Janitors: 73 percent native-born

I believe the problem with the farms is that the employers don't want the Americans (who know their rights), not that the Americans don't want the jobs.

In companies where raided by ICE, and illegal aliens arrested, they had long lines of Americans outside the building the next day applying for those jobs.

Recent Raids Work, Open Up Jobs for Americans | NumbersUSA

 

[protectionist]

Because there are so many ways that immigration and the population growth from it harm America, it's difficult to talk about it all except in outline form as I've done previously. So to better view the harms I'll take one at a time and give each a better look. Infrastructure is an interesting one, and I think I even forgot to mention it in my list. I've written whole OPs on individual catastrophic threatening infrastructure problems like the Wolf Creek Dam in southern KY, and the California delta levees, and those are important enough in themselves.

Not though, this is an overall picture of infrastructure suffering at an increasing scale due to population growth and heavy use of infrastructure. The American Society of Civil Engineers periodically releases a report card on the state of the nation's infrastructure systems. In its 2009 report it assigned the following grades:
Aviation D
Bridges C
Dams D
Drinking Water D-
Energy D+
Hazardous Waste D
Inland Waterways D-
Levees D-
Public Parks and Recreation C-
Rail C-
Roads D-
Schools D
Solid Waste C+
Wastewater D-
Each of the above infrastructure systems is subject to increasing pressure as population increases. Choices must be made between investment in infrastructure expansion, and maintenance of existing infrastructure investments. If population were stabilized, resources would then be dedicated to only maintenance or replacement of existing infrastructure systems.
I don't know why the national electrical grid is not on this list (maybe it's too far gone ?) but if it was, it would be a D- if not an F. It's in horrible shape, with periodic blackouts occuring in many areas, and is susceptible to an entire nationwide shutdown in the event of a nuclear EMP attack, or solar flare.

American Infrastructure Report Card | Society of Civil Engineers

 

[protectionist]

In conjunction with the American Society of Civil Engineers' report card on the state of the nation's infrastructure systems that I posted in Post # 114, now I'll focus on DAMS. Population rise (now primarily from immigration) increases the stress on these, as more and more people need drinking water coming from the reservoirs that these dams hold back. In those cases where the dams produce hydroelectricity, the more people you have, again, the more demand you put on the utitilty to supply electricity to more and more people, and the more and more wear and tear on the dam.

The average age of the 84,000 dams in the US is 52 years old. The nation’s dams are aging, and the number of high-hazard dams is on the rise. Many of these dams were built as low-hazard dams protecting undeveloped agricultural land. However, with an increasing population and greater development below dams, the overall number of high-hazard dams continues to increase, to nearly 14,000 in 2012. The number of deficient dams is estimated at more than 4,000, which includes 2,000 deficient high-hazard dams. The Association of State Dam Safety Officials estimates that it will require an investment of $21 billion to repair these aging, yet critical, high-hazard dams. This is approximately the same number as the loss of $$ from the US economy to remittances to Mexico, sent each year by Mexican immigrants.

The infrastructure issue isn't just about dangers that will occur in the future (without massive expenditures to mitigate them). It is a combination of that and disasters that have already occured. One of these is a coal ash dam run by the Tennessee Valley Authority in Kingston, TN, which breached, spilling over a Billion gallons of hazardous waste across a 300 acre stretch of the Emory River. Coal ash (or fly ash) is powdery residue that remains when coal is used for power production. It's loaded with the toxins arsenic and titanium. Might this happen again ? Possible, especially when one considers that there are hundreds of coal ash dams throughout the US.

In 1976, the Grand Teton Dam, in Idaho, breached. 14 people died in the flooding. Hundreds of homes and other structures were destroyed. The most recent dam failure was the Ka Loko dam in Kilauea, Hawaii. This earthen dam, over 100 years old gave way in 2006, after a heavy rain.

Numbers : There are 85,000 dams in the USA, 4000 of them are unsafe, and 1899 of those are high hazard meaning they likely could kill people if they breach. These have quadrupled since 2001. (this is just by nature, not considering terrorist attack).

According to Brad Iarossi of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the number of unsafe dams is growing at a 45 degree angle on the graph, while the number we repair each year is a straight line (no increase or decrease). This gap is going to get wider and wider, until we get a funding source, and start reversing this trend, or we start having a major collapse of dams nationwide.

It is critical for dams to be inspected to certify mechanical gate function, that spillways aren't jammed with debris, and filters are not clogged, and yet, states have cut dam inspection due to lack of funds. Dams have been going without these critically necessary inspections. In 2007, Texas had 7 inspectors for 7,400 dams. The state was only able to look at 239 dams. That is 97% of the dams going UNinspected. Also in 2007, Iowa had 2 inspectors for 3,344 dams, and even one of those two was part-time. They only got to inspect 128 dams (96% went UNinspected). Alabama, with over 2,000 dams, doesn't even have an inspection agency to monitor dams.

So this brings us to the poster child of all problem dams in America. The infamous Wolf Creek Dam in southern Kentucky. It is over a mile long. and holds back the largest man-made reservoir east of the Mississippi. In fact, it is said that the Wolf Creek Dam is so huge that most of the other dams of the eastern US, could be fit into it. It was built in the 1940s on karst (highly porous limestone). experts concluded in 2997, that without urgent repairs, it would probably fail within 5 years. The US Army Corps of Engineers lowered the lake to reduce pressure on the dam. Five other major dams were built on porous limestone before engineers knew the ramifications of building on porous foundations, but Wolf Creek is probably the mist hazardous. It's failure effect is on the level of enormous. Six Million acre feet of water of Lake Cumberland would pour into the Cumberland River gushing downstream at 40 ft/second, flooding cities and towns for hundreds of miles. Scores of people would be killed and damages would be in the Billions.

Attempts to fix the dam have been minimal. Grout has been poured into the dam's numerous sinkholes, by the Army Corps, where water was detected seeping through the dam, but the seepage continued. In 1975, the Corps drove a 2,000 foot long barrier into the earthen half of the dam to stop the leaks. In 2004, new wet spots appeared. The Corps again poured grout into the limestone as a way of prepping the dam for a new wall. The Corps says the dam will be safe until the wall work is finished in 2012.

So what then is the overall view of this catastrophe waiting to happen by outside objective observers (in its worst possible, hopefully not probable), case ? In outline form, it could be put like this :

1. Heavy rains raise the level of Lake Cumberland and soak the earthen section of the dam.

2. Sinkholes form on the grassy surface of the dam.

3. They work their way up to the top of the dam, and the crest of it, including the roadway, begins to give way.

4. Lake Cumberland pours through the dam and erodes the dam from side to side, creating a 600 foot wide & 200 foot deep gap.

5. The powerful tsunami rushing down from the dam picks up trees, trucks, power lines and other debris, creating a battering ram at the front of the surge, simply obliterating everything in its path. (Think Japan).

6. In 2.5 days, the surge travels 280 river miles and hits Nashville, the state capitol.

7. Nashville is submerged under 20 feet of water. Titan Stadium will look more like Seaworld.

8. Thousands of people along the Cumberland River are killed.

Source: the HISTORY CHANNEL

 

[protectionist]

Electric Power - America relies on an aging electrical grid and pipeline distribution systems, some of which originated in the 1880s. Investment in power transmission has increased since 2005, but ongoing permitting issues, weather events, and limited maintenance have contributed to an increasing number of failures and power interruptions. While demand for electricity has remained level, the availability of energy in the form of electricity, natural gas, and oil will become a greater challenge after 2020 as the population increases, mostly due to immigration.

http://kut.org/post/population-growt...-electric-grid

Energy consumption is a factor of both per capita use and population size. Population size includes the issue of immigration. U.S. energy consumption and the resulting environmental impact of the production of greenhouse gasses has been steadily increasing in total amounts even though per capita consumption has been decreasing.
U.S. energy consumption increased by about 34 percent from 75.8 quads (quadrillion [1015] BTUs) in 1973 to about 101.5 quads in 2007. Over this same period, per capita energy consumption decreased by 6.4 percent. The reason for the increase in energy consumption is due to the 43.1 percent increase in the U.S. population.

The role of immigration in population increase and its role in increased energy consumption results from the growing rate of immigrant admissions (legal immigration) supplemented by large scale illegal immigration and the growing admission of long-term nonimmigrant workers. From 1975 to 2007, the United States admitted 27 million immigrants. Thus direct legal immigration accounted for 31.5 percent of the U.S. population increase during this period.

The pattern of increased energy consumption and population growth may be seen also when examining sectoral use. In the residential sector, consumption increased by 44.7 percent between 1973-2007 while per capita consumption remained virtually unchanged. By contrast, in the industrial sector, energy consumption was virtually unchanged between 1973 and 2007 while per capital consumption actually declined about 30 percent as industry installed more energy efficient production equipment or moved offshore. When per capita energy consumption data in the commercial and industrial sectors are added together, the total declined by about 16 percent while total energy consumption in these two sectors increased from 42.2 quads to 50.9 quads (21%). Thus, once again, this 8.7 quad increase may be attributable entirely to population growth.

it is important to note that immigration is the principal reason the natural rate (births less deaths) of population increase is so much higher in the U.S. than in Europe. The 2000 U.S. Census data show that the Hispanic or Latino population segment, which has surged as a result of immigration, accounted for 12.5 percent of the population but 18.7 percent of all live births, The Census Bureau estimates a total fertility rate (births) of 2.049 for women of all races and 2.921 for women of Hispanic origin 42.3 percent higher.

The increase in energy consumption as a result of population growth shows clearly that the United States would not be able to achieve meaningful CO2 emission reduction, such as called for in the Kyoto Protocol targets, without serious economic and social consequences for American citizens unless population growth is sharply reduced. This necessitates a sharp curtailment of immigration the principal factor in population growth. Failure to address the immigration issue is only rendering the energy problem more intractable. The longer the United States continues to grow at a rate of about 3 million people per year, the more precarious will become the existence of each of us and our children and the sooner that undesirable and traumatic major forced adjustments will arrive.

http://www.fairus.org/issue/energy-u...nd-immigration

 

[protectionist]

Traffic Congestion - Oh God!! Hell is upon us. Lucky for me I'm 70 years old, retired, and don't have to fight the traffic every morning to get to work. But for all those millions of people who do, they can "thank" the immigration lobby for much of their stop & go miseries, and all of how much they're getting worse. Here's a few reports from around the country >>>

California > With five of the nation's 20 most congested metro areas, Californians wasted 871 million hours and 673.5 million gallons of fuel sitting in traffic in 2005.9 In the San Fernando Valley area, the average morning rush-hour speed of 31 mph is expected to fall to 16 mph by 2025 as new drivers crowd the already saturated roads.10

• Florida > Total vehicle miles traveled doubled in the last 20 years and are expected to rise a further 50 percent by 2020.11
• Texas > Traffic is growing so quickly that even if public transit use were to double, the gain would be canceled out by population growth in as little as three months, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation.12
• Northern Virginia > Within the next 15 years, increase in population will be two to three times greater than the planned increase in highway capacity, according to the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board.13
• Atlanta > Known as the “Poster Child of Sprawl,” Atlanta is the nation’s fastest growing city. It is also among the deadliest for pedestrians and motorists.14 Congestion on the overcrowded roads results in a traffic accident every 2.8 minutes in the metro area. The accidents further aggravate congestion, and cost $4.7 billion per year.
• Chicago > Rush hour now lasts almost eight hours a day. If time is money, each year Chicago commuters waste $3,014 per person while killing time in Chicago’s traffic jams. Wasted gas adds an addition $402 to the bill. Meanwhile, the freight industry loses an estimated $1 billion per year due to traffic congestion.16

Los Angeles > has been the most traffic-choked urban area in the country for 20 years running.17 State officials say the number of miles driven on Los Angeles and Orange County roads will increase 40 percent by 2020, due in large part to the sustained influx of immigrants into the region’s suburbs.

• Sacramento > Even with $15 billion in planned road improvements, congestion will increase 400 percent by 2020.

Anybody in this thread living in any of these traffic congestion hotspots ? If you are, think about immigration the next time you crawl along on your way to work, or trying to get back home after a hard day's work.

http://www.fairus.org/issue/traffic-congestion#end10

 

[protectionist]

One of the items on my HARMS of Immigration list was Introduction of foreign diseases. One of these being brought in to the US by immigrants is leprosy. Due to the increase in immigrants from Mexico, India, Africa and other Third World nations, there has been an increase in the number of reported leprosy cases.

According to research done by Ben Whitford in Leprosy In America: New Causes of Concern, an average of 130 leprosy cases are discovered each year among immigrants. The leprosy cases are mainly in areas of the United States with a high immigrant populations, such as in New York, Texas, California, and Florida. According to Whitford, because many American doctors have very little experience in treating the disease, leprosy in its early stages is often mistaken for eczema or diabetes.

It might be advisable for Americans to not get too close to immigrants (legal or illegal). You can't be too careful when it comes to foreigners and foreign diseases. Look Out!!

Leprosy: Ancient Disease Posing a New Challenge in America

 

[protectionist]

Because illegal immigrants, unlike those who are legally admitted for permanent residence, undergo no medical screening to assure that they are not bearing contagious diseases, the rapidly swelling population of illegal aliens in our country has also set off a resurgence of contagious diseases that had been totally or nearly eradicated by our public health system.
According to Dr. Laurence Nickey, director of the El Paso heath district “Contagious diseases that are generally considered to have been controlled in the United States are readily evident along the border ... The incidence of tuberculosis in El Paso County is twice that of the U.S. rate. Dr. Nickey also states that leprosy, which is considered by most Americans to be a disease of the Third World, is readily evident along the U.S.-Mexico border and that dysentery is several times the U.S. rate.

A June, 2009 article in the New England Journal of Medicine noted that a majority (57.8%) of all new cases of tuberculosis in the United States in 2007 were diagnosed in foreign-born persons. The TB infection rate among foreign-born persons was 9.8 times as high as that among U.S.-born persons. It should also be kept in mind that among U.S. citizens who contract TB their exposure to the disease may well have come from exposure to a non-U.S. citizen, which might make the infection rate actually considerably higher than the 9.8 times figure.

The pork tapeworm, which thrives in Latin America and Mexico, is showing up along the U.S. border, threatening to ravage victims with symptoms ranging from seizures to death. ... The same [Mexican] underclass has migrated north to find jobs on the border, bringing the parasite and the sickness—cysticercosis—its eggs can cause[.] Cysts that form around the larvae usually lodge in the brain and destroy tissue, causing hallucinations, speech and vision problems, severe headaches, strokes, epileptic seizures, and in rare cases death.

The problem, however, is not confined to the border region, as illegal immigrants have rapidly spread across the country. Typhoid struck Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1992 when an immigrant from the Third World (who had been working in food service in the United States for almost two years) transmitted the bacteria through food at the McDonald’s where she worked. River blindness, malaria, and guinea worm, have all been brought to Northern Virginia by immigration.

http://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-...&ObjectType=35

1. Statement on behalf of the American Medical Association to the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, U.S. House of Representatives, May 7, 1991.
2. Liu, Yecai, et al., “Oveseas Screening for Tuberculosis in U.S.-Bound Immigrants and Refugees,” New England Journal of Medicine, June 4, 2009.
3. Houston Chronicle, November 3, 1992.
4. Influx of Exotic Diseases Keep Doctors Hopping,” Fairfax Journal, May 8, 1992.

It might be noted that just because the prescribed formula for legal immigration includes vetting of incoming immigrants, this quite often is not the case. As noted by the former head of USCIS recently said the workload of processing immigrants is so large, that often, a great many are just rubber-stamped in without any vetting whatsoever, just to keep from being totally swamped. Thus, some infectious diseases could be coming in with legal immigrants as well as illegal one

 

[frigidweirdo]

I believe the problem with the farms is that the employers don't want the Americans (who know their rights), not that the Americans don't want the jobs.

In companies where raided by ICE, and illegal aliens arrested, they had long lines of Americans outside the building the next day applying for those jobs.

The problem with farms is they want to make a profit. In order to make the highest profit they want to have the cheapest workers for the amount of work they put in.

Native USAers don't want to be doing this work. Foreigners will do this work because the wages for them are better than for the native USAers, because the amount they can buy with this money in their home country is far more than in the USA.

Now, profit and all of that is more a policy of the right than the left. Squeezing as much out of the people is definitely a right wing sort of aspiration.

So....

 

[protectionist]

Malaria, Dengue, Hepatitis A-E, Chagas Disease, Tuberculosis, MDR TB, Leprosy, HIV, Guinea Worm, Whooping Cough, Cystiscercosis, Morgellon's,

All these diseases and pathogens, and a plethora of others that are not endemic to the US, are being brought in by unscreened illegal aliens, who then spread them to an unsuspecting population. These diseases will give you something to think about, the next time you are eating at a restaurant with the grunt work being done by illegal aliens who didn't have medical screening before preparing and handling your food.

Impacts of Illegal Immigration: Diseases

 

[frigidweirdo]

One of the items on my HARMS of Immigration list was Introduction of foreign diseases. One of these being brought in to the US by immigrants is leprosy. Due to the increase in immigrants from Mexico, India, Africa and other Third World nations, there has been an increase in the number of reported leprosy cases.

According to research done by Ben Whitford in Leprosy In America: New Causes of Concern, an average of 130 leprosy cases are discovered each year among immigrants. The leprosy cases are mainly in areas of the United States with a high immigrant populations, such as in New York, Texas, California, and Florida. According to Whitford, because many American doctors have very little experience in treating the disease, leprosy in its early stages is often mistaken for eczema or diabetes.

It might be advisable for Americans to not get too close to immigrants (legal or illegal). You can't be too careful when it comes to foreigners and foreign diseases. Look Out!!

Leprosy: Ancient Disease Posing a New Challenge in America

And you can't tell who is an immigrant or not, so stay away from people who are darker than you are.

 

[protectionist]

How long will it be before the worst plague of modern mankind arrives on US shores ? No time at all. It's ALREADY BEEN HERE. That insidious virus which, if contracted, you have, essentially, little or no hope of survival. The Zaire strain of EBOLA.

BTW, it can also be brought here in infected animals as well as humans, and the Reston strain of Ebola has killed many monkeys here in the USA, which were shipped here from the Phillipines.

 

[protectionist]

Seeing as how ultra-liberal, immigrant ass-kissers love to point out how European immigrants, centuries ago, wreaked havoc on the North American Indians (often wrongly referred to a "Native American" *), when they brought measles, smallpox, malaria, and influenza, across the Atlantic to the New World, they ought to thereby be all the more on their guard for foreign diseases being brought here now, by 21st century immigrants. This is especially so since many of the diseases from abroad are as bad or worse than those of past centuries (Ex. Ebola, AIDS, SARS, Bird Flu, Chagas' Disease, etc).

Cholera is still very active in the 3rd world (Asia, Africa, and South America) with 131,943 cases in 52 countries, and 2,272 deaths in 2005. It is particulary likely to flare up in times of war, famine, or natural disaster, which 3rd world countries are so prone to. It is also known that the cholera organism can live outside the human body in aquatic environments, making it difficult to eradicate, if/whenever it gets into American borders.

Americans ought to go to immigration centers where vetting is done and monitor the work, to insure that EVERY immigrant is being vetted fully, and no rubberstamping is going on. If they find it, then, people ought to shout out in a loud voice > "Hey! That guy was passed over!".........Look Out!!

 

[protectionist]

Typhoid, spread contagiously by the bacterium, Salmonella typhi, is a hideous disease that causes blinding headaches, stomach aches, rashes, and dangerous high fever. It is fatal in about 20% of cases. It is another of the diseases that is rare, or absent entirely, in the developed world, but still common in the undeveloped 3rd world (endemic in Central and South America, Africa, and Asia).

Annual incidence of cases is about 17 million, with 600,000 deaths a year. Another reason to regard immigration as a serious harm, with little or no benefit to it. What make it even worse is that some people can be carriers of the disease, and capable of infecting others, while not showing any symptoms of it themselves, as in the true case of "Typhoid Mary".

Mary Dobson, Diseases: the Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers; Quercus, 2007

http://www.amazon.com/Disease-Extrao.../dp/1847240143

 

[protectionist]

In 2008, the Bush administration contended the money Mexican immigrants sent south can rebuild the Mexican economy, and thus reduce immigration. However, there is no evidence the inflow of money is reducing the outflow of people. Mexico has become addicted to this influx of money which has become their second highest source of income, second only to their oil exports.

In 2006, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) reported that remittances received by Latin American and Caribbean countries had climbed in 2008 to a total of nearly $70 billion. This amount was triple the amount received in 2001. (See chart ).

Remittances provide temporary financial relief at the household level and increase foreign exchange earnings for the receiving country (Mexico), but they also have an equal negative effect on the balance of payments of the sending country (USA). Want to find an important reason for the lackluster US economy ? Look no further. How would a garden be, if every year, more and more nutrients were extracted out of its soil ?

1. Taylor, J. Edward, Jorge Mora, and Richard Adams. 2005. “Remittances, Inequality, and Poverty: Evidence from Rural Mexico.” Research Program on International Migration and Development. DECRG. Mimeo. World Bank

 

[protectionist]

Even as the federal government expands its criminal investigation of companies hiring illegal aliens, it has been helping those same workers send money home cheaply. In 2001, Presidents George Bush and Vicente Fox devised programs to reduce the cost of sending remittances abroad, as part of the Partnership for Prosperity Program, an initiative to promote economic development. New remittance programs, such as Directo a Mexico, aim to bring Mexican migrants into the mainstream U.S. financial system, regardless of immigration status.


Directo a Mexico, allows customers without Social Security numbers to wire money through the Federal Reserve System to Mexico's central bank (Banco de Mexico) at little cost. About 27,000 transfers are made through the program each month.2 Banks and other financial institutions eager for Hispanic customers have joined in. Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Harris Bank, long examples of soul-selling, have launched initiatives to capture a larger share of the Latino immigrant market. U.S. banks have lowered transfer fees, accepted the matricula consular (Mexican consulate-issued ID cards) as identification, acquired stakes in Mexican banks, and established cooperative arrangements to facilitate remittances. If any of these players had an ounce of decency (or American patriotism, they wouldn't even think of sabatoging American workers this way, BUT, they're all in it for one thing > maximizing PROFITS. (and includes not looking around to see whose getting hurt).

1. U.S. Department of State. “U.S. Mexico Partnership for Prosperity” March 22, 2002
2. Hennessy-Fiske, Molly. New York Times “Illegal Aliens Have An Amigo: The Fed” February 26, 2007
3. Orozco. Manuel. Institute for the Study of International Migration ”The Remittance Marketplace: Prices, Policy and Financial Institutions” June 2004

 

[protectionist]

For decades, scientists have been saying that the United States' lakes, rivers and aquifers are going to have a hard time quenching the thirst of a growing population in a warming world. A recent report from NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences does not alleviate those fears. It showed that nearly one in 10 watersheds in the U.S. is "stressed," with demand for water exceeding natural supply -- a trend that, researchers say, appears likely to become the new normal.

"By midcentury, we expect to see less reliable surface water supplies in several regions of the United States,"said Kristen Averyt, associate director for science at CIRES and one of the authors of the study. “This is likely to create growing challenges for agriculture, electrical suppliers and municipalities, as there may be more demand for water and less to go around.”

And a recent Columbia University Water Center study on water scarcity in the U.S. showed that it's not just climate change that is putting stress on water supply, it's also a surging population.Since 1950, there has been a 99 percent increase in population in the U.S. combined with a 127 percent increase in water usage.

"All cities and all businesses require water, yet in many regions, they need more water than is actually available — and that demand is growing," said Upmanu Lall, director, Columbia Water Center said to Business Insider. "The new study reveals that certain areas face exposure to drought, which will magnify existing problems of water supply and demand."

Far from a complete list of regions that may develop potential water scarcity issues across the nation (just take a look at either CIRES' or Columbia University's maps to see how widespread this issue could be in the U.S.), here are 11 major U.S. cities, listed in order of population, that could be deeply effected by water shortages in the not too distant future:

1. Salt Lake City, Utah

2. Lincoln, Nebraska

3. Cleveland, Ohio

4. Miami, Florida

5. Atlanta, Georgia

6. Washington, D.C.

7. El Paso, Texas

8. San Antonio, Texas

9. San Francisco Bay Area, California

10. Houston, Texas

11. Los Angeles, California

Do you live in any of these 11 cities or their SMSA (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area) ? If you do, LOOK OUT!!

The entire southern half of California (heavily inundated with immigration population growth) is especially in a precarious situation because of the California delta levee situation. If an earthquake (like the 1989 Loma Prieta quake) were to strike just a little closer to the levees (about 50 miles northeast of San Francisco), it could cause fresh water supply to almost the entire southern half of the state to be shut down for 2-3 years. This would cause an instantaneous, mass evacuation of 20 million people, and would be (other than war) the most truamatic event in US history.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/04/water-shortage_n_4378418.html

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