America’s shrinking Middle Class and German-Americans … Immigration problems since 1800

[An interesting letter with an interesting link. Jan]

This is a letter that was doing the rounds among some White Americans:

The attached Castor – Immigration letter and the two others were launched yesterday to her and both Florida senators.

We have many problems in our country today due primarily to the ignorance and apathy of the American masses. We are incapable of the constant vigilance required for perpetuation of the freedom guaranteed by our disregarded Constitution. I have addressed one of the problems in the Castor letter which is the impoverishment of our middle class. Our low wage employment has been largely fulfilled by an overload of legal and illegal immigrants which reduces the amount of jobs available for existing Americans, especially for Blacks. American taxpayers are forced to subsidize welfare for the American unemployed as well as both classes of immigrants. “Back of the Hiring Line” by Roy Beck of: www.numbersusa.com explains the causes and effects of excessive immigration in our country since the early 1800s.

Throughout the book, the point is made that the immigrants are better employees in addition to being a better value. This, to my way of thinking, has to do with the increasingly poor quality of K-12 education available in our country, especially in Black communities.

Another important point that I’d like to make is the discipline normally found in families with a mother and a father who focus on raising a responsible young adult. There is a reason that Germany has been a leading economic power since becoming a country. Our German-American families in the Mid-West were a major factor in our tremendous manufacturing base during the early years of the last century. Likewise, Oriental families usually produce hard-working, responsible young adults and it shows in the economic successes enjoyed by China, Japan and neighboring countries. It doesn’t take a village as once thought but it does take a mother and a father to properly raise a well-balanced, responsible child. The two parent family is least prevalent in lower middle class neighborhoods where unemployment is normally the highest and so discipline and the lack thereof might possibly be a factor in making the immigrant a better employee relative to the American resident in the eyes of the employers.

Whatever the root cause, our middle class is being destroyed and no country can enjoy economic success without a large, buoyant middle class. You need good, productive workers and many affluent consumers.

All the best.