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 We had better pay attention June 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Buchanan has a total grasp on world politics. His warnings are solid and the USA must not ignore them if we are to survive as a free nation. The demographic shift that is happening as you read this is real.
American Pie to be Cut into 6 Billion Pieces May 31, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Disclaimer: I am not the Mike Ferry who wrote the book listed on Amazon "How to Develop a Six Figure Income in Real Estate"
(paperback Nov. 1, 1992). But I think that I shall put it on my wish list.
Consider: Jamiel Shaw Jr. (age 17) was gunned down March 2, 2008 near his home allegedly by an illegal alien 18th Street gang member just 24 hours after the killer's release from an L.A. County jail. The victim's mother (an Army Sgt.) was serving her second tour of duty in Iraq. The victim's father heard the fatal shots being fired.
Consider: Jamiel Shaw Jr. was black but not a gang member. He was a football star who last season ran 74 times for a total of 1,052 yards. The last pass of his football career was a 60 yard touchdown strike. He was intent on going to college.
Consider: The first L.A. County prosecutor assigned to the case wanted to paint the murder victim as gang affliated so the motive for murder could be tossed on the public table as gang related. The real motive for Jamiel's murder is that in and about L.A. County illegal alien reinforced gangs are killing black youths; but since L.A. is a sanctuary city no city nor county politician will tell you that can possibly be the case.
Consider: August 6, 2007 four black teens (three of whom where found to have Delaware State University I.D.s) where lined up against a wall near a school parking lot in Newark, NJ and shot in the head. Three died and one was reported in fair condition. The prime suspects are illegal aliens.
Consider: Tom Bradley was the first black mayor of Los Angeles. Ponder: Based on realistic demographics, when do you suppose L.A. will have another black mayor?
Consider: Ted Hayes who is black and has been an outspoken advocate for the homeless (he even sat in the Wally George hot seat some 20+ years back) has campaigned with the Minutemen. Why? What has he figured out about massive demographic shifts from illegal alien influxes that the rest of the Maxine Waters voters haven't? Perhaps Mr. Hayes is concerned that those same type of voters will become increasingly politically marginalized.
Consider: Congressional sources reveal that 25 people in America are killed every day by illegal aliens (12 are killed by violence and another 13 are killed by illegal alien drunk drivers). If you do the math with a 364 day year, you get 9,100 dead people in America every year who in theory should still be alive were it not for illegal immigration.
Consider: The Bubonic Plague dramatically contributed to the strengthening and ultimate rise of the middle- class in Western Europe due to the fact that labor (especially skilled labor) gained new found value because of scarcity. With massive numbers of hard working (yes, I concede most illegal aliens have a strong work ethic) illegal aliens pouring into the U.S.A., is it unreasonable to suggest that the lower rung of America's hardscrabble middle-class might some day pretty much disappear? In my neighborhood you don't see many (any) roofers that look like they can read the front cover of the Los Angeles Times. Maybe you live in the Midwest and have memories of when a living wage was paid to meat packers and chicken processors.
Consider: Pat Buchanan's other book "Where the Right Went Wrong" and look closely at the chapter titled "Economic Treason". With upper skilled jobs moving offshore and jobs that Americans just won't do here in country being given to illegal aliens, is it just nuts to suggest that (with the exception of financial planners and interior decorators) the American middle-class is under attack? Where America's middle-class goes, so goes America.
Consider: Muslim immigration (illegal and otherwise) in Western Europe. [I know that doesn't read as a complete sentence, but the word 'consider' is the verb and you (implied) is the subject.] France had some issues with this situation, but it wasn't something that thousands of torched cars and a few burned out city blocks couldn't solve... temporarily. So I wonder, how many illegal alien Muslims do we have in the U.S., and what are their intentions?
America is mankind's last best hope. We are that shining city on the hill. The hill; however, has some serious erosion problems. I know many people believe immigration strengthens and renews America. I agree. America legally allows more people into this county every year than all the other countries of the world combined. But if you defend illegal alien immigration to this country, do you have a limit? Most of the people who come here illegally leave their countries of origin because their own respective cultures and societies have failed them. How many people from corrupt cultures and faltering societies can be packed into any given area before that area starts to resemble the same culture and society those very people fled? Last I heard there are over six billion people on this planet; just how many of them do you want here?
Enjoy Pat's book. It only keeps me awake at night when I think about it.
 Each American should read it March 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Illegal immigration is a big problem for America. It is being debated for many years. Due to a huge Hispanic population, many politicians are doing their utmost to avoid this kind of debates. I command Mr. Buchanan for facing it without hesitation. In "State of Emergency" he discusses the problem of US immigration, providing a lot of valuable statistics. This book is a wake up call for all Americans. Especially, it is a call to the politicians to forget about their divisions, political correctness and political opportunism, to unite and to do something useful for a change. For a good background on American Immigration I suggest reading Coming To America: The Story Of Immigration by Betsy Maestro.
AMERICA THE BELEAGUERED March 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
FROM 5 STAR HOTEL TO FLOPHOUSE!!!!!!!
THE TWO AMERICAS....DEATH OF THE MIDDLE CLASS? And with that the North American Alliance ? Don't ask if ask when!
Pat Buchanan's latest book ("Day of Reckoning") is a great, great book.
Author Samuel Huntington In HIS book "Clash of Civilizations", looks at the effects of massive immigration of people from other "civilizations" into the United States, making it a FAULT LINE NATION (where inter-civilization conflicts are destined), with similar dismal conclusions.
History merely shows what immigration has been like for the US historically. Truth be told, the founders never intended for this to be a "multicultural" country!!!!!!!!!!!! If one reads the Federalist Papers you discover that the founders were counting on the "common heritage" of the people to help make the new country work.
The disaster of multiculturalism is of recent vintage (1965 immigration act had its consequences as it made the DEMS more powerful but has ruined the GOOD OL USA !!!).
Due to political correctness those who actually discuss race in an intelligent fashion may be demonized.
Buchanan states " America is coming apart . . . we are on a path to national suicide". European-Americans comprised 89% of the U.S. when Kennedy (author of A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS!! was elected - now its 66% and sinking further. With dismal consequences!
this invasion in from Mexico / other nearby third world countries is causing much of the fragmentation of our country, WHICH IS WHY THERE IS SUCH A PUSH IN THE CORPORATE MEDIA TOWARD `DIVERSITY', MULTILINGUALISM,MULTICULTURALISM!
The population explosion south of the border is a bigger threat than anything happening in IRAN ! 20 PERCENT !!!!!!! of all Mexicans/Latinos ARE ALREADY HERE WITH NO END TO THE INVASION IN SIGHT, about one in twelve here illegally has a criminal record (95% of the 1,200-1,500 warrants for homicide in L.A. target ILLEGAL aliens, and diseases once stamped out in America such as LEPROSY ARE SADLY RETURNING!
Are we on the verge of importing the populations of whole countries? I
The underpinning of any country is the commonality of its people: race/ethnicity, language, customs, religion, etc. What B is saying in his book is that underpinning is being eroded, and the consequences don't bode well for the future. Despite what some reviewers here say, B doesn't spe immigrants. His point is that these new immigrants are not inclined to be assimilated, as previous waves were. I think he hits the nail on the head when he says that the current view on immigration is that it's a "civil right" (i.e., everyone has a right to come to America ).
No other country I know of is thought of in this way.
emphasis on the fact that the US was/is a primarily white nation is not racist; it's merely stating fact. There's no talk about what race is "better", only that commonality is better. I think the charges of xenophobia by some reviewers are entirely specious.
What has led every great nation/empire to ruin: taking in peoples it can't assimilate or who don't want to be. Our collapse will be unavoidable. Rome lasted 476 years; I doubt we'll reach that.
. Read it, and then use it by writing your representatives and tell them to turn off the spigot. As Brimelow points out, most Americans are opposed to further foreign immigration and yet it continues. Why? He doesn't answer that question directly -- that's another story.
An excellent exposition on the current state of immigration
Buchanan's assessment that
THERES DOUBLE trouble the main factors: shrinking populations and a cultural collapse. I disagree with the first because the population here never shrank! What shrank is the middle class as the third world continues to flood in.
Even the United States , which announced this week that the year 2000 saw its largest birthrate in 30 years, has a rate barely high enough to sustain its population at the present number..
Buchanan takes numbers from the UN Population Division, as well as the statistics from the booming populations of Africa, China, the Arab States , and Latin America , and expands them out over the next 50 years.
Meanwhile, free trade and the loss of millions of jobs through outsourcing to Asia is A DISASTER, and many ignore the `outsourcing' of American manufacturing to communist China . Cult-thinking continues to weaken America and we are "on the hook" to China which is becoming steadily stronger.
Corporate CEOs rake in millions in pay and stock options, workers' pay declines and unions grow weaker, and so the middle class deteriorates. Meanwhile the dollar sinks to new lows and may be abandoned by OPEC and Asian nations (creating financial chaos and high inflation in the U.S.), our enormous trade ($6 trillion; negative for 31 straight years) and federal ($9 trillion)deficits continue to rise - along with unfunded Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security liabilities ($59 trillion), our infrastructure deteriorates for lack of repair funds, and foreign nations buy up assets strategic to our national security.
some folks ..perhaps most but more than the corporate media would acknowledge are onto the truth!
this is from a site...the daily reckoning
despite everyone from jessi jackson to the wall st journal saying immigration...in huge numbers...from the third world to the usa is good
read this:
this is from a site...the daily reckoning
by Byron W. King
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February 12, 2008
A story in USA Today reports that "The U.S. population will soar to 438 million by 2050." Most of the
population growth will be driven by immigration and live births to immigrants. How depressing. And it
ought to make you mad, so that you want to "do something" about it...like build a wall or something.
Really, why is it that the so-called "immigration debate" in the United States is often tied up with terms
of race and seldom tied into the discussion of depleting resources and declining infrastructure? If the
immigration debate was framed in the latter terms of resource depletion and infrastructure, people would
focus on the point that the nation is "full." The irrefutable fact is that the U.S. resource base is fastdepleting
and the infrastructure system is overloaded. There is no more room at this inn. It's time to hang
out the equivalent of the "No Vacancy" sign for very some practical reasons.
The United States is already a net food-importer, yet the nation will now - according to the Pew
Research study - grow its population from 300 million to 438 million within the next 43 years? In what
soil will the food grow? How much food will be imported, and from where, and how will the nation pay
for it? With the national credit card, that is now broken?
And while we are discussing eating, let's wash it down. Water is in critical shortage in many regions of
the United States, so what will all of these "new" people drink? For that matter, what will the existing
population drink? At the other end of the alimentary canal, the U.S. infrastructure of sewers and pollution
control systems has long been inadequate. Water and sewer system construction has traditionally lagged
population growth even in the best of times. It is both expensive and politically difficult to gain approvals
even for replacement sewage systems, let alone new build construction. Really, who wants a sewage
treatment plant in their back yard? C'mon...raise your hand.
Let's think about energy. The United States is already the world's largest oil-using nation (21 million
barrels per day) and the largest oil importer (13 million barrels), so again...how much more oil will these
new immigrants consume? While we are at it, the electricity system is strained to its limits in several
regions. Each year, the system requires more and more juggling and wheeling of power just to remain up
and running. (For example, within the U.S. power companies move electricity from Montana to California;
from North Dakota to Illinois; from Tennessee to South Florida.) From where, and from what power plants
(few are being built), will the nation obtain its electricity?
As things stand, the world is at the cusp of long-term oil depletion and output decline (and the high
grade coal reserves have been dug and burned as well). Thus the existing U.S. population base will have its
work cut out just to maintain some semblance of an energy-based lifestyle for the current numbers. That is,
the United States should expect the volumes of oil available on world markets to shrink. There will be less
and less oil available to import, and at higher and higher prices. Ditto with coal. And as for "alternative"
energy sources? Hey, these are great present investments. But they are lousy overall solutions to the future
energy problems of 300 million people, let alone 438 million. Something is going to have to give.
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Let's think of some other resource constraints in the United States as well.
Have you tried to find a parking space? The major cities are full-up, surrounded by sprawling suburbs
and built-out exurbs. Roads are packed and traffic congestion is chronic. Yet few new roads are being built
anywhere - for lack of space, let alone the NIMBY-ism that permeates the culture. The nation is having
trouble maintaining its existing road and bridge infrastructure. Yet won't "another" 138 million people need
a few more paved roads, bridges, tunnels and exit ramps within the next 40 years or so? Who will build
those structures, and how will the nation pay for them?
Where would these roads go in any case? You can already get to most places that you want to go, using a
highway or road - in some state or repair or another. But when you arrive at your destination you typically
find that much of the formerly rural landscape has been transformed into development and track housing,
all of which uses energy and water in wasteful ways that will be untenable in years going forward due to
scarcity and high costs. While we are at it, for some strange reason, most of the U.S. population wants to
live within 200 miles of a coastline. So let's add the majority of those 138 million new bodies to the existing
coastal bands. Tell me when you feel crowded.
How else can people move about? Not on trains. The U.S. rail system is essentially maxed out with trains
hauling freight shipments, hence there is no room in or near any urban area to acquire new railway rights of
way. So rail and light rail - which very few Americans currently use in any case - will not grow in any big
sense in future years.
Other U.S. public infrastructure - such as the hospital and public health system, court system, public
schools and higher education system - are similarly maxed out. The United States can barely serve the
population base of 300 million with the existing sets of buildings and personnel. In many jurisdictions, the
fact is that the public IS NOT being served in any adequate sense. And in many locales, people are being
treated, served and/or allegedly "educated" in trailers, for lack of space in the "real" buildings. Many of the
"real" public buildings in the United States are aged and long-past replacement. (In Pittsburgh, for example,
no new public high school has been constructed since 1923.)
This does not even address the profound national issues of "borders, language and culture" that will be
affected by new waves of mass immigration. 438 million? That number is just too many to allow any sort of
society to function on half a continent, mostly near the coastlines. But one could also focus on the
"depletion" of the traditional American concepts of national boundaries, or the decline of the nation's
common English language and some semblance of an "American" culture based on a shared history. No, if
you focus on that kind of thing, people will think that you are talking about immigration in terms of race.
So better just to focus on the fact that an increased U.S. population - from whatever source - will lead to
massive shortages of food, water and energy. And the public infrastructure will simply break down. Vast
swaths of the country will become unrecognizable slums filled with broken-down housing, bad
transportation, and hungry and thirsty people living on the squalid edge of human survival.
Now, let's talk about building that wall...
Byron King
Outstanding Investments
 Shows some historical light on the debate... March 10, 2008
State of Emergency taught me some history behind the illegal immigration debate. Mr. B. seems well informed but comes off a bit heavy handed at times. He personalizes the debate with interesting references to his nationality's immigration (the Irish) back in the day.
Eventually he seems to fall down on the side of patriotism, which most would agree is a good thing for any country--even if it has a rapidly changing demographic. Reminds me of some themes in the new novel, Uncle Juan's Cabin.
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