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> The Next Added 100 Million - Part 20
> Accelerating Middle Class Poverty
> By Frosty Wooldridge
> 1-27-7
>
> According to Newsweek, 38 million Americans live below the poverty
> line.
>
> The federal government defines that line as an annual income of
> $20,000 or less for a family of four. For the first time in our
> history, more of America's poor live in the suburbs than cities.
>
> In Bedford Heights, Cleveland, Ohio five years ago, a Hunger Network
> food pantry served 50 families per month. Today, 700 families depend
> on the pantry for food. Why? Manufacturing jobs shrink with
> outsourcing, offshoring, insourcing and millions of ILLegal migrants
> taking jobs from American citizens.
>
> History -- A Great Teacher
>
> Remember feudalism in ancient Europe? Remember how kings sat in their
> castles while serfs tilled the fields, brought food in payment for
> taxes, died in wars and lived in miserable poverty? Remember the
> Broadway production of Camelot with Guinevere listening while the king
> sang, "What are the common people thinking tonight?"
>
> Remember how 20th century Robber Barons like Rockefeller, Swift,
> Amour, Carnegie, Gates, Gould, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Kennedy and others
> manipulated workers while amassing obscene fortunes?
>
> We enjoyed a vibrant Middle-Class by the mid sixties.
>
> In order to thwart corporate strangle-hold on American workers, unions
> formed to give the common laborer collective power. The AFL-CIO, with
> such men as Walter Reuther, George Meany and others forced
> corporations to pay a living wage with decent family benefits.
>
> However, unseen trouble lurked on the horizon.
>
> In 1965, Teddy Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson slipped an
> immigration bill through Congress that jumped immigration from 175,000
> immigrants annually to 1.1 million each year -- a sudden, six-fold
> increase.
>
> Onslaught of undocumented foreign-nationals
>
> So-called legal immigrants busted unions and lowered wages. By 1986
> millions of "ILLegal" poverty stricken peasants from Third World
> countries crossed over our borders.
>
> They took jobs at half or one-third the wages paid by corporations.
> For example, meat packers in the 1980s earned $18.00 an hour with
> benefits. Construction workers earned $22.00 an hour. American cab
> drivers earned a decent living. Catastrophic changes descended on
> working America.
>
> The slave-labor workers decimated our lower- middle-class
>
> All of a sudden, companies found a mother lode of workers in ILLegal
> migrants. They grabbed jobs from American workers at $6.00 an hour,
> lived 20 to a trailer or apartment and found they could tap into free
> medical care and schooling for themselves and their children. They
> drove cars without licenses or insurance. They worked off the books
> without paying income taxes.
>
> Voila! The new Robber Barons of the 21st century found their new slave
> class. These new slaves weren't African Negroes shackled in chains
> while being torn from their country. No! These new workers arrived
> mostly from Mexico where the average worker earned(s) $3.85 per day.
> Why? Mexico's Robber Barons perfected their strangle-hold on slave
> class dominance.
>
> What is the result?
>
> Today, corporations crush America's Middle-Class into our newest
> poverty class. Our working poor stand in welfare lines. You can't find
> an American cab driver any more. You've got Muslims who won't take you
> if you carry something they don't like while African immigrants can't
> understand English. Swift, Hormel, Tyson, Wal-Mart and hundreds of
> other large employers engage in illegal hiring practices. They're not
> alone! McDonald's, Burger King, Chipotle's, Pizza Hut and many other
> fast food chains employ ILLegal aliens. Construction firms, house
> painting, drywall contractors and roofers hire ILLegal aliens at a
> fraction of a livable wage.
>
> Bill Gates leads the new 21st century Robber Barons. (Read the book:
> Robber Barons by Mathew Josephson) Gates' immense $50 billion fortune
> allows him to dictate to Congress on how many H1-B and H2-B visas can
> be offered. Thus far, more than 1,000,000 American high tech workers
> lost their jobs to insourced foreign workers. Over 3,000,000 U.S.
> manufacturing jobs vanished into India, Mexico and China.
>
> Who Makes the Goods America Uses ?
>
> Maytag and American Flyer outsourced and offshored their plants to
> China. Wal-Mart buys 90 percent of its products from China and other
> countries where they can buy products normally produced at wages of 22
> cents-per-hour.
>
> Last year, Ford and General Motors announced 60,000 more jobs
> pink-slipped. Michigan workers suffered lost manufacturing jobs at
> 1,000 per week in the past 18 months. Middle-class families suffer job
> crucifixion while their children languish.
>
> By employing ILLegal migrants, now at more than 20 million in the
> U.S., 21st century Robber Baron employers cut their expenses in half
> while they increase their profits for their owners and top CEOs.
>
> Results? Howard and Jane Pettry of Middleburg Heights, Ohio said,
> "We've worked all our lives and paid taxes. Now we're living off
> credit cards. It's terrible."
>
> How terrible? The average American credit card holder owes $9,149.00
> on his or her card. Most run interest rates at 18.5 percent. Guess who
> benefits from all that interest?
>
> In the meantime, Congress watches, waits and waffles while doing
> nothing to stop legal and ILLegal migrants from crossing America's
> borders at rates of millions and millions annually.
>
> Who is in Charge Here?
>
> Who do you think controls Congress? Not the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
> and big business in general, right?
>
> Even more stunning, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq cost U.S.
> taxpayers $689 billion during the last five years.
>
> President Bush rebuilds Iraq, spending hundreds of billions of
> dollars, while he watches skyrocketing poverty levels degrade our
> Middle Class. On top of that, every senator now running for the
> presidency voted for SB 2611 that added even more work visas as well
> as doubling legal immigration to 2.0 million annually.
>
> Thanks to Providence, that legislation stalled. Most terrifying, the
> same scoundrels will advance a similar bill aimed right at the guts of
> the U.S. middle-class.
>
> Throughout this national calamity, American citizens watch as their
> neighbors lose jobs or see their wages diminished. However, if it
> doesn't affect them directly, they won't speak a word.
>
> If you think the 21st century Robber Barons plan to stop this massive
> wage degradation, you better hang on to your britches. Like the
> wealthy Robber Barons of Mexico, our corporations won't stop the next
> added 20 million ILLegal migrants -- nor will they stop the
> insourcing, offshoring and outsourcing of jobs.
>
> Can you imagine what Cheney and Bush sing tonight as they gather
> around their opulent furnishings, "What are our common citizens
> thinking tonight...ta, ta, we don't care!"
>
> The Death of the U.S. Middle-Class
>
> In the end, America's Middle Class roared into being from the 30s to
> the 90s, but fades from existence in the early part of the 21st
> century. Concurrently, the less educated their children from
> dumbed-down school systems, the less able they will be to rise up
> against their masters.
>
> Ironically, our own president and Congress commit this national fraud
> against our citizens. Worse, Americans don't speak out -- 50 to 60
> percent of us don't vote, and the rest can't be bothered as long as it
> doesn't affect them.
>
> Denial grows as a key piece of the addictions afflicting our national
> leaders while dragging this country into cultural, linguistic and
> financial quicksand.
>
> As the next added 100 million people manifest their numbers in
> American society, with 70 million immigrants (legal and ILLegals), we
> might view Mexico to see our future. By making $3.85 per day per
> average wage earner, our society degrades to a high class and a low
> class - with a giant gap between.
>
> R I P -- Here Lies America's Middle Class - Died a contrived death at
> the hands of the 21st century Robber Barons -- and its own
> disinterest. They bowed their heads like sheep in the pasture of
> their demise.
>
> What you can do for a better future for your country:
>
> A republican form of government is not a spectator sport. It means you
> must jump in, roll up you sleeves and take personal and collective
> action. Of course, you could let a dictator take over and do
> everything for you, but that path would give you Cuba, China, North
> Korea and other unsavory examples.
>
> To stop Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from giving an amnesty, take action.
>
> CALL Nancy Pelosi: Washington, DC - (202) 225-4965
> San Francisco, CA - (415) 556-4862 ;
> Email Nancy Pelosi ;
> Email form for Nancy Pelosi;
> http://www.house.gov/pelosi/contact/contact.html
>
> Senator Harry Reid: 202 224 3121 in Washington DC
> 775 686 5750 in Reno, NV;
>
> George Bush
> 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
> Washington, DC 20500
>
> Comments: 202-456-1111
> Switchboard for live listener: 202 456 1414
> Fax: 202-456-2461
>
> We must 'sour the milk.' Bring out your points in the call:
>
> 1. America cannot support another 100 million people added to our
> country in 34 years, i.e., water crisis, resource depletion,
> air pollution, gridlock, loss of quality of life, etc.
>
> 2. America cannot support lawbreakers being given citizenship.
>
> 3. America must maintain our English language.
>
> 4. America wants only legal immigrants who play by the rules and
> speak English.
>
> 5. America's working poor deserve a chance at jobs taken by illegals.
>
> 6. America already has too many people and I support a 10 year
> moratorium on all immigration.
>
> 7. Americans must maintain our schools for our children.
>
> 8. We can no longer tolerate 350,000 birthright citizens (anchor
> babies) annually that subtract from our own citizens.
>
> 9. Attrition through enforcement by stopping their ability to wire
> money home, obtain rental housing and jobs.
>
> 10. An amnesty failed in 1986, and it will only be worse today. We're
> being displaced out of our jobs and out of our own country.
> Call with relentless and never-give-up passion.
>
> To reduce illegal aliens in your community, you may follow the course
> of action by Mayor Louis Barletta of Hazelton, PA. He offers a bomb
> proof ordinance that takes business licenses away from those who hire
> illegals. He legally halts landlords from renting to illegals. Without
> work and without housing, illegals cannot stay in your community.
> Check out his website for instructions:www.SmallTownDefenders.com/public/node/6
>
> Visit D.A. King at thewww.thedustininmansociety.orgto see how
> Georgia created the best laws to stop illegals at the state level.
>
> Please check out William Gheen atwww.alipac.us. He's a mover and
> shaker. He will direct you to specific actions that make you more
> powerful and effective.
>
> To stop this invasion locally and nationally: joinwww.numbersusa.com
> for free and you can joinwww.fairus.organdwww.thesocialcontract.com
>
> Wooldridge presents a 45 minute program to colleges, high schools,
> civic clubs, church groups and political clubs across America titled:
> "COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT." Go to
> his website for further information on booking the program.www.frostywooldridge.com
>
> Check outwww.populationmedia.orgfor an exciting method for creating
> overpopulation awareness in Third World countries. Their prime
> directive works with the media in order to educate and activate
> leaders and women worldwide.
>
> Whether we like it or not, global warming is upon us. We can take
> action to correct it. Please joinwww.stopglobalwarming.orgfor up to
> the minute information and action items.
>
> Awareness Campaign web site,www.mcs-global.org, which is purely to
> help save and protect human health and environmental health globally.
> Diana Buckland is founder and global coordinator at
> or . Diana makes impact
> all over the world by alerting everyone about chemical sensitivities
> caused by poisons sprayed, injected and applied to our crops and
> elsewhere.
>
> From Part 5 of this series, "Destroying our oceans", if you would like
> to become involved please refer to
> <http://www.savetheoceans.org/>www.savetheoceans.orgfor a first rate
> lesson on how to take action in order to cleanse our oceans, restock
> our fish population, move toward recycling and cleanup of our world's
> most important living resource. Watch shows on PBS that expose where
> we threw two million tires into the waters off the East Coast and all
> the damage those tires are doing to marine life. You'll find out what
> you can do to have them raised from the deep. Additionally, check outwww.greenpeace.orgfor actions at the national and international levels.
>
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>
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>
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>
> www.mcs-global.org; On April 1, 2007, the Paul Revere Riders will
> again ride to stop the illegal invasion and accompany Arizona long
> haul truckers and motorcyclists in a freedom border ride to block
> illegal aliens from crossing our borders. We invite all veterans,
> truckers and bikers to join us. Contact Rusty Childress atwww.immigrationbuzz.comandwww.americanfreedomrid ers.comfor further
> information. Please write with your ideas on what to name the ride.
>
> Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and
> families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on
> six continents and six times across the United States in the past 30
> years. He presents a program to colleges, conferences, high schools
> and civic clubs around the country: "THE COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN
> AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT". His published books include:
> "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; "STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR BASE" ;
> "IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES" ; "MOTORCYCLE
> ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND-A TEEN NOVEL" ; "BICYCLING AROUND
> THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION" ; "AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER:
> ANTARCTICA". His next book: "TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A
> SWAMP". He lives in Denver, Colorado.
>
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If you are over 50 years of age you have enjoyed a fine period for
America.
Now you can watch it slide into a third-world disjointed politcal
state.
Hold your money and get a gun!

greg