by James Darnell

Created on: August 03, 2008   Last Updated: August 11, 2008

As the population grows, so does illegal immigration. The American economy is also affected by the surge of "consumers". The value of many things like real estate, cost of consumer goods and the basic tax burden are all a part of our economic machine.

It doesn't matter if the additional population is Mexican or Russian or Martian, for that matter. The fact is that a country of our size (economically speaking), can only sustain a certain amount of people. As the numbers increase at a much faster rate than the general population's birth rate, the system as a whole becomes quickly labored. Prices surge due to the sudden of the high demand. As does everything else, available jobs due to cost cutting, medical care due to over-crowded hospitals and emergency rooms, crime rates soar due to the percentage of the criminal element that is within all large and small populations.

This problem goes beyond being prejudicial against any certain group or ethnic populism, it is a mere logical numbers game. One that we need to take a good hard look at. If you allow overpopulation in the animal world, they will eventually all starve to death. When you allow a country, this country, to do the same, in time the strangle-hold will tighten even for us.

If we allow the current trend to continue just to be politically correct, for the moment, we are setting the wheels in motion for the begging of the end of the America that we knew. It may not happen until the baby-boomer's are long gone and even after your children's children are old and gray. But just because we won't be here to endure the worst of it, is it right to hand these failed policies over to those that must follow us?

Today's politicians have a skewered view of our country. They are out of touch with the common man, although I must admit if I were a congressman from the age of 24 and still am at the age of 87, I suppose I would have no clue as to how the working stiff survives either. We, as a population, become numbers and statistics to them all on the Hill, very quickly. They do not endure the impact that their complacent attitude impose on us in our daily live.

Making it illegal to cross another's borders is only illegal if you enforce your laws. If we were to enforce the written law on illegal immigration, there would be a much lesser problem than we face today. There would not be 2 of our border control agents in jail right now for trying to protect our lives and those of our families'. We would all know the penalty for this act of aggression on our sovereign nation. I would expect nothing less than deportation for being in a country that I have no right in being in. No matter what my intentions were in coming.

Remember, all great civilizations fell eventually. Most did so from the inside out.

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