The Twin Crises: Immigration And Infrastructure
3/23/2009
On Sunday at church, my preacher said, “If you want to be happy for a moment, eat your favorite meal at your preferred restaurant. If you want to be happy for a day, get married because the celebration provides much happiness. If you want to be happy for a lifetime–plant, grow and tend a garden.”
For most of the past 50 years, the citizens of the United States enjoyed a ‘moment’ of happiness. They called it the American Dream. They and their leaders yielded to instant gratification, overstuffed themselves with food and possessions, and now, suffer obesity of debt and body, dwindling resources and dozens of other consequences.
They ‘married’ deficit spending along with the Korean, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars; 700 bases with 572,000 troops ‘Growing an Empire’ around the world; and offshoring, insourcing and outsourcing jobs to everywhere but within America. They ‘married’ mass immigration in 1965 that continues today in a rocky relationship that undermines the foundation of their civilization. From 1986 and continuing today, they tolerated 20 million illegal aliens that migrated into America.