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America Is A Nation Not A Market (Part 1 of 2)


Editorial/Op-Ed

by Frosty Wooldridge

LOUISVILLE, COLORADO -- (OfficialWire) -- 11/22/05 -- Doug McIntyre, radio host of KABC’s "McIntyre in the Morning," in Los Angeles, spoke at the Federation of American Immigration Reform director's meeting this past fall. His profound speech brings the immigration invasion into sharper focus for all Americans. [www.kabc.com]

You may offer all the excuses you want, however, McIntyre’s approach cuts like a fish knife without any political correctness offered. He is a man watching the disintegration of an American city from a front row seat.

McIntyre repeated what President Jimmy Carter said in 1977, "In the last several years, millions of undocumented aliens have illegally immigrated to the United States. They have breached our nation’s immigration laws, displaced many American citizens from jobs and placed an increased financial burden on many state and local governments.�

"This statement, truthful nearly thirty years ago, is transparently obvious to anyone who has even one eye open to our disastrous border policy,� McIntyre said. "That we’re still discussing these same issues today answers how Congress reacted to Carter’s warning.�

McIntyre continued, "Broadcasting from Los Angeles, I have had a front row seat from which to witness the catastrophic impact our open border and sanctuary city policies have had on the South Western states and the country as a whole. The big picture is coming into focus for Americans far removed from the Rio Grande. New Englanders and Heart-Landers are awakening to a problem that has been maddeningly worsening in Los Angeles and other western metropolitan areas for a generation and a half.�

Here is a sampler of recent headlines from Los Angeles:

*Between 2000 and 2003, the population of Los Angeles County went up by one million. That’s like taking Boston and its suburbs and moving them to LA in three short years.

*The illiteracy rate among LA County workers ages 16-54 is a staggering 51 percent.

*The LA County Health Care System lost 14 hospitals, trauma units and ERs in the past year alone, with many others on the brink of collapse. A total of 86 E.R. and hospitals have bankrupted in the past six years.

*While nearly every other major city in America has seen a steep decline in violent crime, the murder rate is up in LA.

*The LA Unified School District (which is many things, but unified isn’t one of them) is a disaster. An astounding 78 percent of the students speak Spanish as their primary and/or only language. The San Fernando Valley’s Canoga Park High School has a sign over the door which reads, "Bienvenido.�

*The average price for a home in LA County is above $450,000. In the Valley, it’s almost $600,000. Apartment rents have sky rocketed, middle class families are moving farther and farther into the Antelope Valley, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in a futile attempt to find affordable housing. One hundred and twenty mile round trip commutes are commonplace, adding three and four hours to the average work day. In many neighborhoods, single unit housing is now home to multiple families. Ten cars in front of one house is a fixture in many neighborhoods. Illegal garage conversions result in blight and death by fire.

*The wages for working class Angelinos are going down at the very time costs for everything, including housing and gas for those long commutes, are going up.

*In a recent page one story, the Los Angeles Daily News reported on an only in LA phenomenon â€â€