Thread: AMERICA’S DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS

By Frosty Wooldridge
May 16, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty57.htm

Have you ever cut your finger while slicing an onion? How about a scrape on your elbow when you fell? Ever suffer sunburn? What happened when you suffered a bloody nose? Have you ever cut a major artery where you could have bled to death?

Today, America bleeds to death by a thousand cuts. We’re bleeding from every sector of our society. At some point, the United States of America cannot and will not survive the bleeding. Why? Take a look.

Each day, Americans burn 20 million barrels (55 gallons per barrel) of oil in their cars, but we import over half of that oil from other countries. Therefore, that’s $2.25 per gallon X 55=$123.75 X 10,000,000 barrels, which equals $1,237,500,000.00 we pay other countries daily. That’s money that never returns to America. It’s like America cutting its wrist. Meanwhile, we have NO energy conservation policy in America.

Last year, the trade deficit totaled $618 billion according to the New York Times. It’s expected to exceed $700 billion in 2005. That’s money going out that isn’t coming into America.

Brian Williams of NBC stated that the Federal deficit will grow another $383 billon in 2006. Do you feel your pocketbook bleeding?

What about American enterprise? Recently, General Motors and Ford suffered their demotion to Junk Bonds. Ironically, China’s Yuan is undervalued because it’s tied to the American dollar, but the Yuan will jump when it is ultimately pegged to the Euro. Soon, the Euro will become the new standard for exchange as it displaces the dollar on the international money markets. But, if GM and Ford collapse, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois will become basket cases because most of their jobs involve the auto industry.

In the high tech jobs arena, the H-1B, H-2B and L-1 visas were given to over 1,000,000 foreigners to displace American workers. Who is responsible? Your congressman and senators! Go to www.numbersusa.com and check out the report card on your senators or congressman and you’ll mostly see F’s.

The hemorrhaging accelerates when you realize that our Federal debt stands at $7.4 trillion. We pay over $600 million a day in interest payments. Bush bumped the debt ceiling by $800 million at the first of the year while borrowing $1.6 billion daily from foreign investors.

Their interest rates bleed us further. Is the fabulously wealthy George Bush paying that interest? No, you are! The rich get richer and you get poorer. Further, you, the average American with a credit card carry an average of $8,000.00 balance (debt) on your credit card. That equals $2.0 trillion in consumer debt according to CBS News. Added to that bleeding, you’re paying 18 percent APR on that debt credit card debt.

For more bleeding, over 20 million illegals siphon off $68 billion annually out of your taxpayer pocket as they use our schools, welfare, medical care and services. Folks, they’re not just picking lettuce anymore. They’re taking jobs away from Americans. Harvard’s Professor Borjas of economics showed that illegal aliens displace American workers out of $200 billion in lost wages annually. We’re not talking about a financial nose bleed. We’re talking slashed arteries!

All the while, according to a recent Bears and Sterns report, illegals work off the books to the tune of $400 billion annually in uncollected IRS income taxes. Who makes up that money? You do with the blood, sweat and tears from your working legally in your country. What are the consequences? For starters California with three million illegals stands at $38 billion in debt and last year, 86 hospitals and ER wards bankrupted.

Every single state in America is under horrific financial crisis because of unpaid taxes by illegals and their massive liabilities. What makes it worse; over three million illegals add their illegal working hands to the US workforce annually. Feel your life blood draining?

Home foreclosures and personal bankruptcies stand at an all time high for American citizens. How about the $80 billion annual price for the ongoing $30 billion Drug War that has solved nothing?

What about the price of a home today that has doubled in 20 years? How about the $128 billion in cash leaving the USA annually to pay for the drugs coming across the Mexican border? How about $81 billion just appropriated for the Iraq War?

In the meantime, this Congress and president promote outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring of millions of jobs out of the America in a bloodbath that is cutting the Middle Class in the jugular. America’s working poor can’t find a job at a living wageâ€â€

Chilling. Absolutely chilling. Unfortunately, it's true.

RR