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June 27, 2007
The Cost of Shamnesty
If Bush didn't manage to ensure our country's bankruptcy with his prescription drug handout, amnesty for illegal aliens ought to do the trick. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation recounts a few facts you won't hear from Bush, Kennedy, McCain, or the rest of the irresponsible fools who are steering the ship of state straight at an iceberg, including this one:
Low-skill immigrants receive, on average, three dollars in government benefits for each dollar of taxes paid. This imbalance generates a net cost of $89 billion per year on U.S. taxpayers. Over a lifetime the typical low-skill immigrant household costs taxpayers $1.2 million dollars.
Rector estimates that the cost of amnesty alone will reach $2.6 trillion once illegal immigrant recipients of government largesse reach retirement age.
As for the wishful canard that making millions of low-skill illegal aliens eligible for every entitlement under the sun will somehow keep Social Security afloat,
In the not too distant future, the Social Security trust fund will be in deficit. Government will have to use general revenues to help pay promised benefits. Since amnesty recipients and their families will consume more government revenues that they contribute, they will undermine the financial support for U.S. retirees even before they reach retirement age themselves.
There will come a point where the American economy simply cannot pay the bill for all the moonbattery gushing out of Washington, no matter how high taxes are raised. Our current crop of bureaucrats may even live to see it. Let's hope they do. They certainly deserve to go down with the ship.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 27, 2007 2:48 PM
Comments
An absolutely perfect analogy, and what a great picture (the ship of state as the Titanic, going down). While it's very bad under the latest spend-like-there's-no-tomorrow/come on in, everybody! Republicans, we can only imagine the devastation the Dimocrats will inflict upon us should they be victorious in 2008: a third-world wasteland in just a few years time, where once stood a beautiful "beacon on a hill," to paraphrase Mr. Reagan.
Posted by: jc14 at June 27, 2007 5:49 PM
First the libs tried to bankrupt us with the New Deal, but the economy improved after WWII. Then they tried during the 60s with LBJ's "Great Society" programs. The economy faltered during the 70s, but revived under Reagan and we survived.
But we didn't have millions of illegals in the country then, so now the calculations have changed. As you point out, there's no way we can pay the Social Security bill (let alone Medicare and Medicaid) with all of them in the country and more to come. Get Hillary in the White House with her socialist programs and it's all over.
Posted by: Tom the Redhunter at June 27, 2007 7:48 PM
It gets worse. In order to bribe the Big Pork Senators Murkowski and Stevens, the Amnesty Bill contains an earmark to put a border control office in the middle of Alaska.
Posted by: V the K at June 28, 2007 2:23 AM
Since Roe v Wade, it is estimated that 40 million babies have been aborted. These were potential citizens who would have worked, paid taxes, and contributed to Social Security thus insuring its continued viability.
Now that Social Security is in trouble because the number of workers contributing to the system is declining precipitously, the government must now find out a way of replacing the 40 million aborted babies in order to shore up the Social Security System.
The government's solution, make 40 million illegal aliens citizens of the country.
If this isn’t a classic case of The Law of Unintended Consequences at work, I don’t know what is.
Posted by: pocomoco at June 28, 2007 4:46 AM
