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The Death of America
"The children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West," says Buchanan as he finishes a book that is so cradled in historical fact and demographic predictability, one is either reduced to despondency or angered to demand action. If any book could be less politically correct and more politically damning of the politicians and policies that have brought us to this point, it has few rivals. Buchanan utterly demolishes the myths that Americans live with today. Far from being a nation that flung its doors open and welcomed every immigrant, the U.S. has from its earliest times been careful and selective. "Rarely have immigrants constituted 10 percent of our number," writes Buchanan. "Since the Revolution, the vast majority of Americans were born here and take pride not only in their roots but in what sets us apart and defines us as a people separate from all others. We are not just some microcosm of mankind." In his famed book, "A Nation of Immigrants", John F. Kennedy wrote that, "in the 350-year history of the United States from Jamestown to Eisenhower, 42 million people had migrated to America, almost all of them from Europe. By 1958, almost all had been assimilated." Buchanan notes that, "We have almost as many foreigners here today as came in the first 350 years of our history. Second, most of those coming are breaking in. They have no right to be here. Third, almost all immigrants today, legal and illegal, come from countries and cultures whose peoples have never before been assimilated into a First World nation." I believe the 2008 national election will focus almost entirely on the issues surrounding illegal immigration and what to do with the estimated 12 million illegal aliens we have in our midst. The only thing that would shift this emphasis or perhaps increase it would be another major attack on the homeland. Buchanan does not flinch from addressing the obvious. "Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide…Race matters. Ethnicity matters. History matters. Faith matters. Nationality matters. While they are not everything, they are not nothing. Multiculturalist ideology be damned, this is what history teaches." To those who say it’s too late to do anything about the millions of illegals among us, Buchanan offers workable options that might yet save the United States of America from becoming Mexico’s dumping ground. "The first imperative is an immediate moratorium on all immigration, such as the one we imposed from 1924 to 1965." This, of course, posits no amnesty. The last one was a disaster. Buchanan says we need a fence along the entire 2,000-mile border with Mexico. It is so porous that a million illegal immigrants cross it annually. The Constitution has to be fixed to eliminate "anchor babies", granting them full citizenship if they are born here and, in effect, conferring it on their families. "According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 22 percent of all births in California are to illegal aliens." Immigrants, says Buchanan, should be permitted to bring wives and minor children only. Duel citizenship should be banned. You either swear allegiance to America or go home. Duel citizenship is pernicious in that it undermines loyalty. Most importantly, Buchanan calls for a crackdown on all those businesses whose jobs attract and are filled by illegal immigrants. "Vigorous enforcement of U.S. laws will persuade millions to go home. If they cannot find jobs, if they are denied welfare, food stamps, and rent supplements, if their children are not all educated for free after they break in, they will not come, and many will go home." The answer is not mass deportations, but attrition. What the bleeding heart liberals refuse to understand or acknowledge is that the present state of illegal immigration poses huge threats to the welfare of our nation. We are not talking of the generations of immigrants from Europe that came before and assimilated into our society and culture. Instead, we must address the fact that 31 percent of immigrants in America today never finished high school. That is three and a half times the rate of native-born Americans. The poverty rate for today’s immigrants is 57 percent higher than for native-born Americans and 29 percent use some form of welfare. Immigrant children accounted for nearly 100 percent of the increase in U.S. public school enrollments in the last twenty years. "Economically, immigrants are a net burden on the nation," says Buchanan. Were it not for its illegal immigrants, Mexico would not be receiving an estimated $20 billion annually in money sent home to their families. That’s a figure second only to Mexico’s oil and tourism industries. It is time for Mexico to create a stable economy of its own for its own people. The irony of this is that Americans of Hispanic descent have demonstrated repeatedly that they, too, are concerned about the impact of illegal immigrant. A Pew Foundation poll of Hispanics who achieved U.S. citizenship found that 48 percent said there were "too many" immigrants. In Arizona, 47 percent of Hispanics voted for Proposition 200 to require proof of U.S. citizenship before welfare benefits were conferred. Illegal immigration is harming our education systems, our health systems, and filling our prisons due to the high rate of crime among those who break the law the minute they cross our border without proper authority. If we don’t stop it, it will kill America. If illegal immigration is one of your concerns, an entire section of Alan Caruba’s new book, "Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy" is devoted to it. You can purchase a copy from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com, and autographed from this site. Click here for more information.
The figures as of June 30, 2005 indicate the State removed 14,000 dead deer that year and about 70 percent of them were on county or local roads. The cost to the State is about $1 million a year. Depending on whether a carcass is being picked up on a weekday or weekend, and whether it is on public or private property, the cost can run from $55 to $85 per deer. The State figures it will save $730,000 a year by requiring the towns to pick up the tab. Local officials consider deer a State problem because everything involving deer requires a license. Putting a bullet in Bambi is fraught with legal liabilities, but not thinning the herd comes with some very real and expensive problems. With an estimated 180,000 deer in New Jersey, the cost of an auto repair after one has not only caught a deer in the headlights, but also the front bumper and other parts of the chassis, adds up to big bucks for the owner and his insurance company. You’re lucky if you survive such an encounter because some people don’t. Other costs that are rarely noted include the damage to crops because New Jersey isn’t called the Garden State for nothing. We actually have thriving farms here. Homeowners, too, are not thrilled to see their expensive shrubbery and gardens decimated by deer. I have driven into my hometown in the early morning hours only to have to slow to a crawl while a dozen or more amble from lawn to lawn in search of a tasty morsel. I live adjacent to the South Mountain Reservation, a vast watershed maintained as a forest area in the midst of several suburban towns. There’s a spot from which one can see a panorama of the area that includes New York City in the distance. A recent study of the reservation by a local environmental advisory committee has concluded "that an over-population of white-tailed deer has created a perilous cycle of defoliation that places the health of the forest in imminent peril." Every single time the residents of neighboring Millburn, which shares the reservation, have tried to devise a plan to cull the herd, animal rights advocates have protested. The problem is so bad that the Director of Conservation and Stewardship for the New Jersey Audubon Society concluded that, "At this rate, this forest won’t be here in 50 years." The forest is also home to many other species and they, too, will suffer the loss. No forest, no sanctuary for birds. No forest, no place for small furry critters. We actually faced the spectacle of New Jersey’s many communities and counties potentially going to court to require the State to continue picking up the cost of lots and lots of dead deer. A week after announcing its new policy, the State relented and said it will have its road crews assume this task. Why, I keep wondering, doesn’t the State just make the deer-hunting season a year-round affair? Why not let the hunters continue to pay for the privilege of doing what the State is reluctant to undertake? Why not pass a statewide law that makes it a whole lot easier for deer removal town-by-town. This nuisance species could be culled by animal control professionals without endless protests by a handful of people who think that deer are cute. Raccoons are cute, too, but nobody weeps as they are trapped and removed. I’ll tell you why. It would just make too much sense! Right now in New Jersey you can face a hefty fine for privately trapping and killing a single squirrel. Pest control professionals have to do this while walking a fine line regarding the methods used. Some years ago, a man who caught and killed rat in his backyard garden was literally hauled into court. Some deer in the woods is a nice thing, but 180,000 deer everywhere is not. The costs are so ridiculous that the State wants to shift them to local communities. There are too many deer in New Jersey and, if the past is any indicator, absolutely nothing will be done about it. Have you purchased your personally autographed copy of Alan Caruba’s new book, "Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy"? You can if you click here. |
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In his book, "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America", Patrick J. Buchanan starkly explains why the nation we call the United States of America will be far different for our grandchildren than it has been for all who proceeded them. Europe, too, will cease to exist as a bulwark of Western civilization.
There are 8.5 million people in New Jersey. You could make a good argument that there are too many people. Just ask anyone on any highway and road in the State during rush hour. Commuting here, as in other highly urban areas, is no fun. One way to pass the time, however, is to count the number of deer carcasses along the roadside.