Wednesday, March 21, 2018

US Congress destroyed the middle class


The combination of laws, regulations and government structures too often results in “unintended consequences” either on purpose or because legislators failed to see how laws can lead to conditions far worse than the laws admitted to, because the legislators lack judgement, wisdom, intelligence and morality.

The most visible current example of this is how Congress maintained open borders to allow illegal immigrants to enter the US, unleashed excessive legal immigration in 1986, doubled legal immigration in 1989 and off-shored all manufacturing jobs in 1993 to kill the middle class. The US ended up with 100 million working-age US citizens without jobs and 60 million unnecessary immigrants. Our reaction was to elect Trump.

Immigration had always had an effect on job availability when the numbers of immigrants far exceeded the number of jobs available.

Economist Milton Friedman said” ‘You can have open borders or you can have a welfare system, but you can’t have both’.  And nobody listened. Now immigrants cost taxpayers $386 billion a year.


Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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