07.11.09
Faulty decisions have led to America’s demise
James King
AlbanyHerald.com
Letter to the editor
An American used to be a person driving this year’s model automobile, wearing last year’s style clothes and spending next year’s money. Now our government is spending money generations in advance. America is hopelessly in debt and virtually bankrupt. I predict eventual bankruptcy by the U.S. government and the end of the U.S. dollar. The world banking system will introduce the “Amero.” America, Canada and Mexico will have the same money.
It has been said that the Iraq war has bankrupted America. I have read both sides of the argument. I still don’t have a firm opinion as to whether the war was justified.
But illegal immigrants, not war, have bankrupted America. They cost America $338.3 billion a year. The breakdown is $11-$22 billion by state governments, $2.2 billion on food assistance programs, $2.5 billion on Medicaid, $12 billion on primary and secondary education for illegal children, $17 billion for education of “anchor babies” of illegal immigrants, $3 million per Day for incarceration, $90 billion per year for welfare and social services. Wages of legal Americans are suppressed $200 billion a year. They send $45 billion per year back to their country of origin. (editor’s note–This number seems too low)
Illegal aliens have a crime rate 250 percent that of legal Americans. Nearly 1 million sex crimes have been committed by illegals. Thirty percent of federal inmates are illegals.
Ignorant voters continue to elect U.S. senators, congressmen and presidents who allow it (Democrat and Republican). That is the reason America’s founding fathers believed only property owners should be allowed to vote. Abraham Lincoln changed America from a republic to a democracy. His unconstitutional actions are responsible for putting the first cracks in America’s foundation. It may be unrepairable. I hope I am overly pessimistic.
