Mass immigration: Suicide pill of the GOP

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LOL! Oy vey! Ve are a nation of immigrants!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34870

Posted: October 1, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

by Patrick Buchanan


© 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

Normally, the Census Bureau releases its Current Population Survey on a Tuesday, late in September, at the National Press Club. This year, the survey was released Friday afternoon, at the Census Bureau suburban headquarters in Suitland, Md.

When you see the numbers, you can appreciate why Karl Rove would want to get this behind us and move on.

• In 2002, median household income in the United States fell for the second year in a row, from $42,900 to $42,409. The national decline was 1.1 percent, but among Hispanics, the fall-off was 2.9 percent.
  
• The poverty rate – below $18,392 for a family of four – rose from 11.7 percent to 12.1 percent. But, among African-Americans, poverty rose from 22.7 percent to 24.1 percent of the population.

Certainly, the recession of 2001 and the "jobless recovery" go far toward explaining what the New York Times ominously described as "the second straight year of adverse changes in both poverty and income, the first two-year downtown since the early 1990s."

Like the Times, we all remember who was president in the early 1990s, as does George W. Bush.

But there are mega-trends in society that have been working for decades to keep the poverty numbers high and median incomes low. And though they feed the endless expansion of Big Government and prevent any downsizing of the Welfare State, these trends have been endorsed by a GOP Establishment that seems to be committing suicide in broad daylight. . . .