STATISTICS TO PONDER- Considering the fact that we are already having such a severe problem taking care of our current population, what do you think is going to... happen to these waves of illegal immigrants as they attempt to settle in to communities all around the nation? Ultimately, we are going to have to end up financially supporting a very large percentage of them too. Right now, more than 20 percent of children in this country are already living in poverty, and 49 million Americans are dealing with food insecurity. If Obama continues to encourage mass illegal immigration, those numbers are going to get much worse. Government dependence is already at an all-time record high, and about half the country currently receives benefits of some sort from the federal government every month. How much more weight can we put on the “safety net” before it breaks? Just check out some more numbers about this crisis from one of my previous articles… -Ten years ago, the number of women in the U.S. that had jobs outnumbered the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps by more than a 2 to 1 margin. But now the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps actually exceeds the number of women that have jobs. -The U.S. government has spent an astounding 3.7 trillion dollars on welfare programs over the past five years. -Today, the federal government runs about 80 different “means-tested welfare programs”, and almost all of those programs have experienced substantial growth in recent years. -Back in 1960, the ratio of social welfare benefits to salaries and wages was approximately 10 percent. In the year 2000, the ratio of social welfare benefits to salaries and wages was approximately 21 percent. Today, the ratio of social welfare benefits to salaries and wages is approximately 35 percent. -While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the total number of Americans on food stamps has gone from 32 million to nearly 47 million. -Back in the 1970s, about one out of every 50 Americans was on food stamps. Today, about one out of every 6.5 Americans is on food stamps. -It sounds crazy, but the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the entire population of the nation of Spain. -According to one calculation, the number of Americans on food stamps is now greater than the combined populations of “Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.” -According to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, 43 percent of all immigrants that have been in the United States for at least 20 years are still on welfare. A lot of people that are trying to immigrate here illegally just want to make a better life for themselves, and I can appreciate that. But a policy of making it incredibly difficult for honest people to come in through the front door while keeping the back door completely wide open for lawbreakers is a recipe for national suicide. And right now we don’t have jobs for these immigrants. We can’t even take care of the people that are already living here. Something desperately needs to be done about this, but I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for Obama to make a bold move to stop illegal immigrants from pouring over the border. by Michael Snyder
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:07:34 +0000
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