4-25-07 Border Plots
The illegal alien amnesty plot seems to be moving forward, to some extent, in that nothing of any great import is being done by congress to stop it. Consequently, the situation merely goes along unaffected. One would attempt to make sense of this by supposing that there may be some missing information about it. Conspiracy theorists love this sort of situation, and there's plenty of noise to be found and heard of plots, agendas, etc.
But what the long term scenario for America's future solvency involves are some very simple statistics, and acceptable statistical projections. The population has a constantly increasing average age (baby boomers growing older, decreased family sizes, etc). Producing members of the society, essentially, foot the bill for those non-producing members, young and old. As long as the ratio of producing versus non-producing people is well above 4 or 5 to 1, sustained solvency is something that can be expected. Unfortunately, the projections into the next ten years demonstrate that this ratio will drop to 2 to 1. There is only one way to reverse this trend, ie- new blood.
This problem is much more pronounced in Japan, by the way, and it is becoming a problem in other first world countries, as well. There is no conspiracy to flood America with illegal aliens, but there is a draw for aliens to come and work in this country, and that draw is quite simple... we really do need them.
Meanwhile, the fringe and collaborative segment of the country that has a big emotional bond against the "alienization of America" has been talking it up on the air this week, in an event that I posted about just three days ago.
So far, the noise that's been made by FAIR in their annual "Put Their Feet To The Fire" event appears to have been minimal. The only reportage that I can find about it is fringe and collaborative.
Meanwhile, the concurrent trucker's strike that was planned seems to have fizzled completely (I couldn't find any news stories about it at all).
But there is a little activity taking place, over on the left coast, where Teamsters and others are suing the US Department of Transportation to block the implimentation of the Mexican trucking "pilot program". Stories are here and here.
On that issue, I think there really should be some re-examination in the public forum, and by congress, to ensure that our borders are not being opened up and made easier for smugglers. NAFTA is one thing, border security is another.
But what the long term scenario for America's future solvency involves are some very simple statistics, and acceptable statistical projections. The population has a constantly increasing average age (baby boomers growing older, decreased family sizes, etc). Producing members of the society, essentially, foot the bill for those non-producing members, young and old. As long as the ratio of producing versus non-producing people is well above 4 or 5 to 1, sustained solvency is something that can be expected. Unfortunately, the projections into the next ten years demonstrate that this ratio will drop to 2 to 1. There is only one way to reverse this trend, ie- new blood.
This problem is much more pronounced in Japan, by the way, and it is becoming a problem in other first world countries, as well. There is no conspiracy to flood America with illegal aliens, but there is a draw for aliens to come and work in this country, and that draw is quite simple... we really do need them.
Meanwhile, the fringe and collaborative segment of the country that has a big emotional bond against the "alienization of America" has been talking it up on the air this week, in an event that I posted about just three days ago.
So far, the noise that's been made by FAIR in their annual "Put Their Feet To The Fire" event appears to have been minimal. The only reportage that I can find about it is fringe and collaborative.
Meanwhile, the concurrent trucker's strike that was planned seems to have fizzled completely (I couldn't find any news stories about it at all).
But there is a little activity taking place, over on the left coast, where Teamsters and others are suing the US Department of Transportation to block the implimentation of the Mexican trucking "pilot program". Stories are here and here.
On that issue, I think there really should be some re-examination in the public forum, and by congress, to ensure that our borders are not being opened up and made easier for smugglers. NAFTA is one thing, border security is another.
posted by Jeff Barnard at 4:49 PM
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