Social Security taxes workers to pay benefits for elderly and disabled Americans and survivors of deceased workers. Because birth rates fell after 1965, when baby boomers retire, the number of taxpaying workers supporting each beneficiary will decline from about 3.3…
Mass immigration is a threat to our nation’s health. Diseases nearly eradicated are breaking out again. Tropical diseases, previously unknown in the United States but prevalent in Third World countries, including Dengue fever and Chagas disease, are appearing for the…
One of the most troubling economic trends of recent years has been the rise in health care costs. Health related spending is rising about 7.3% per year – doubling every ten years. As a share of the economy no country…
Freedom is what makes America special. Our Constitution affirms such fundamental freedoms as speech, assembly, and worship. To protect our liberties, it also limits the power of government. But the Constitution alone cannot guarantee that we will remain free. Freedom…
The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.1 – Seymour Martin Lipset America’s linguistic unity, which has allowed it to become the most successful multi-ethnic nation in modern history, is…
There’s a heated debate about whether American K-12 education has declined. (My considered conclusion: probably yes, taking into account the increased dropout rate.) But what can’t be denied is increased cost. Per pupil expenditure rose from $2,290 in 1980 to…
When American workers think of mass immigration, they envision illegal aliens toiling on farms to provide them with cheap produce or working to maintain their landscaping. They give tacit approval to illegal immigration because the allure of cheap labor is…
Open borders are welcoming dangerous criminals. A crime-minded foreigner envisions the American Dream as a different sort of opportunity than the one imagined by immigration sentimentalists. He sees cash and expensive items available for easy theft, a market for selling…
On September 11, 2001, the willful negli-gence of federal, state, and local politicians aided in the murder of 3000 people. These murders were the foreseeable, inevitable result of decisions made by Presidents and Congresses beginning in the 1960s. They dismantled…
Mass immigration makes U.S, cities and their surrounding areas unacceptably crowded, canceling the deliberate decision of U.S. citizens to limit their numbers by having fewer children. A nation’s people have a right to choose the size of their national family, but…