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Immigration Destroying Middle Class America

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By Frosty Wooldridge

My long time friend Washington DC writer Don Collins understands the consequences of relentless legal and illegal immigration.  It’s taking greater and greater toll on middle class America.

“Immigration Overload Destroying Middle Class” by Don Collins really puts our predicament into perspective.

The AP headline Unemployment rate falls to 8.6% in November gives people a false impression of prosperity.  However, a Huffington Post headline on the same government data tells a different story: Jobs Mirage: 315,000 Drop Out Of Workforce, Driving Unemployment Rate To Three-Year Low

“Let’s keep the record straight,” said Collins. “America’s famous Middle Class, the bulwark of our economy, staunch supporter of our republican (small “r”) form of government, believers in the American Dream and observers of the Rule of Law, have been hit brutally hard in the past several decades in no small measure been caused by what I have dubbed “immigration overload”—the arrival since 1965 of well over 100 million aliens and their children, disproportionately unskilled  people, into an increasingly high-tech society.

“Folks, these aliens, however good, hardworking, and honorable, were simply not needed!  The beneficiaries (at least temporarily) were the businesses lobbies and the ethnic and religious lobbies who cheered on the invasion and intimidated Americans who feared being called racists, nativists, xenophobes etc.

“Among numerous bad effects, this massive influx has put pressure on American workers’ wages, taken away summer jobs for our children, and added to the burgeoning costs of government.

“Now some of our largest companies are realizing that the Middle Class is so diminished that they must cater to the poor. The Wall Street Journal’s   September 12, 2011 Page One article, As Middle Class Shrinks, P & G Aims High and Low, by Ellen Byron, reports.”

“For generations, Procter & Gamble Co.’s growth strategy was focused on developing household staples for the vast American middle class.

Now, P&G executives say many of its former middle-market shoppers are trading down to lower-priced goods—widening the pools of have and have-not consumers at the expense of the middle.

That’s forced P&G, which estimates it has at least one product in 98% of American households, to fundamentally change the way it develops and sells its goods. For the first time in 38 years, for example, the company launched a new dish soap in the U.S. at a bargain price.

P&G’s roll out of Gain dish soap says a lot about the health of the American middle class: The world’s largest maker of consumer products is now betting that the squeeze on Middle America will be long lasting.”

WSJ’s Byron quotes PG:

“‘It’s required us to think differently about our product portfolio and how to please the high-end and lower-end markets,’ says Melanie Healey, group president of P&G’s North America business. ‘That’s frankly where a lot of the growth is happening.’”

Translation: the rapid decline of the Middle Class is now a key part of our game plan.

Of course, the usual explanation (“worst recession in 50 years”) is offered. But the notoriously immigration enthusiast WSJ makes no mention of low-skilled aliens taking those American jobs. Don’t tell me Americans won’t take low paying jobs. The lines for job offerings are long whenever hiring notices are posted.

And furthermore,

“P&G isn’t the only company adjusting its business. A wide swath of American companies is convinced that the consumer market is bifurcating into high and low ends and eroding in the middle. They have begun to alter the way they research, develop and market their products.”

Enter the Consumer Hourglass Theory:

“Citigroup calls the phenomenon the ‘Consumer Hourglass Theory’ and since 2009 has urged investors to focus on companies best positioned to cater to the highest-income and lowest-income consumers. It created an index of 25 companies, including Estée Lauder Cos. and Saks at the top of the hourglass and Family Dollar Stores Inc. and Kellogg Co. at the bottom. The index posted a 56.5% return for investors from its inception on Dec. 10, 2009, through Sept. 1, 2011. Over the same period, the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned 11%.”

Of course, the rich are okay (for now):

“Companies like Tiffany & Co., Coach Inc. and Neiman Marcus Group Inc., which cater to the wealthy, racked up outsize sales last Christmas and continue to post strong sales.

“Tiffany says its lower-priced silver baubles, once a favorite of middle-class shoppers craving a small token from the storied jeweler, are now its weakest sellers in the U.S. ‘I think that there’s probably more separation of affluence in the U.S.,’ Tiffany Chief Operating Officer James Fernandez said in June.”

P&G is really scientific about this:

“To monitor the evolving American consumer market, P&G executives study the Gini index, a widely accepted measure of income inequality that ranges from zero, when everyone earns the same amount, to one, when all income goes to only one person. In 2009, the most recent calculation available, the Gini coefficient totaled 0.468, a 20% rise in income disparity over the past 40 years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

“‘We now have a Gini index similar to the Philippines and Mexico—you’d never have imagined that,’ says Phyllis Jackson, P&G’s vice president of consumer market knowledge for North America. ‘I don’t think we’ve typically thought about America as a country with big income gaps to this extent.’…

“‘This has been the most humbling aspect of our jobs,’ says Ms. Jackson. ‘The numbers of Middle America have been shrinking because people have been getting hurt so badly economically that they’ve been falling into lower income.’”

“Indeed, America is being humbled by a variety of ills—including the draining effect of our wars,” said Collins. “But the job losses that reduced and humbled our former bell weather Middle Class will surely continue unless we wake up, pass permanent E verify and begin to enforce our existing immigration laws which have allowed “immigration overload.””. 

Don Collins writes for the Pittsburgh Tribune and for www.Vdare.com

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In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE&feature=player_embedded

 

“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart by Roy Beck

This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a word “Mind boggling!”  www.NumbersUSA.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ

 

This is the best website to start:  www.numbersusa.org ; watch Roy Beck’s “Immigration by the Numbers” at 14 minutes. Bi-partisan and very effective. Become a faxer of pre-written letters to your reps to make positive  change.

 

Visit www.TheSocialContract.com for the best information on what we face as a civilization as to overpopulation, energy, immigration and much more.

 

Canada www.immigrationwatchcanada.org ; in Australia www.population.org.au and[email protected]; in Great Britain www.populationmatters.org ; and dozens of other sites accessed at www.frostywooldridge.com.   In Florida, www.flimen.org .

Must see DVD: “Blind Spot” www.snagfilms.com/films/title/blind_spot/ , This movie illustrates America’s future without oil, water and other resources to keep this civilization functioning. It’s a brilliant educational movie! www.blindspotdoc.com

 

Must see: Rapid Population Decline, seven minute video by Dr. Jack Alpert-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTWduFB_RX0

 

Must see and funny: www.growthbusters.org ; www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXSTrW_dARc
Dave Gardner’s Polar Bear in Bedroom:

growthbusters.org/2010/03/save-the-polar-bear-in-your-bedroom ; Dave Gardner, President, Citizen-Powered Media ; Producing the Documentary, GROWTH BUSTERS; presents Hooked on Growth: Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity, Join the cause at www.growthbusters.org ;760 Wycliffe Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80906 USA; +1 719-576-5565

 

Check out this link with Wooldridge on bicycle and Lester Brown and panel discussion:

www.upnorthmedia.org/watchupnorthtv.asp?SDBFid=1631

 

Tomorrow’s Americaproject on www.youtube.com/contemporarylearning.

Producer: GEORGE A. COLBURNwww.tomorrowsamerica.com

DC: 202-258-4887

 

Email: [email protected]

Link to www.tomorrowsamerica.com for more discussions on America’s predicament.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

www.starbrightmediacorp.com

www.tomorrowsamerica.com

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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies available: 1 888 280 7715

                               

 

 

 



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    • DaveB

      “intimidated Americans who feared being called racists, nativists, xenophobes etc.”

      You could very easily substitute Americans for Australians, because this is exactly what is happening in Australia and just about every other western nation as well.

      A deliberate attempt to destroy every white western nation and pretty soon, there will be no predominantly white nations and no western nations at all.

    • Colorado Fly Over Review

      The average American is against illegal immigration. It’s rare to find any pro-illegal Americans when I talk around about it.
      If you listen to mainstream media, you would think the only people who oppose the out of control invasion are members of the KKK.
      We’ve been brainwashed by the big media. There is nothing wrong with being against illegals over-running America – the majority of your neighbors agree!
      It’s not too late to change course.

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