homosexuality?
Admittedly, schools indoctrinate the young in homosexual
lifestyles, cities and foundations penalize the Boy Scouts of
America for refusal to entrust boys to homosexual troop leaders,
and the military is ambivalent about sexuality. Efforts to
subvert the nation’s young include teaching that white Americans
are guilty of exploiting everyone else and that their vast
achievements are a chimera.
A con. dent people would resist such an attack on their culture
and power. The attack against European-Americans succeeds
because we allow it, giving every sign of being a depressed and
demoralized people. Homosexuality could be addressed if
demoralization were even a fraction of the cause.
Certain demographic pressures undermine con. dence. Working
their way through the economy and political system, demographic
changes have steadily undercut the middle class,
while ethnic diversity is celebrated for its own sake, and traditional
culture is scorned—all leading to a confused state of
mind and country.
Principal changes in U.S. demography stem from the 1965
immigration law, which substituted the principle of "family reuni-
fication" for quotas based on country of origin. In its wake,
not only sheer numbers but the source of immigrants changed.
From approximately 250,000 mostly European newcomers annually,
today’s green-card and work-visa immigrants approach
1.5 million. Illegal immigration adds an additional one-half to
three-quarter million annually. The majority of newcomers
are "minorities."
Both the numbers of nonassimilated newcomers and their
effect on the economy create stress. Rapid growth in the workforce
—if not matched by enough new capital both to create
jobs and to maintain the ratio of capital invested per job—results
in a combination of lower-paid jobs, worse working conditions,
and fewer bene. ts. Harvard professor George Borjas
estimates that, in 2002, immigration depressed the wages of
native workers by 4.9 percent, or about $2,600 per year per
worker. Borjas estimates that each ten-percent increase in immigrant
workers depresses the wage of native-born Americans
by an additional 3.5 percent. Applying Borjas’ methodology to
the latest government statistics, Edwin Rubenstein calculates
that the total annual-income loss from immigration suffered
by native-born workers is $302.9 billion. That loss increases in
lock-step with the size of the immigrant labor force.
The erosion of the average native-born American’s real income
has been accelerating since 1965. A study entitled "Divergent
Paths" (released in 2003 by the Russell Sage Foundation) compares
the wage growth and job security of young white males
entering the labor force in the 1960’s with that of similar men
who began working in the late 1970’s and early 80’s. The study
documents a decline in economic prospects that its authors expect
to be permanent and which has hollowed out the middle
class.
Fierce competition for jobs began to weigh on young Americans
after approximately 1970. For the . rst time in a generation,
entrants into the labor market encountered rapidly growing
numbers from their own ranks—the baby boomers—as
well as women and immigrants. Little by little, job-seekers
began to surpass the net number of new, good jobs. Where a
single income had afforded a rising standard of living for the average
family, two incomes soon became a near necessity. Most
