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To: kabar
So perhaps, non-Hispanic whites may claim minority status and get affirmative action access. Demography is destiny.

More likely will be treated like whites in Zimbabwe, or Jews in Nazi Germany

The real crisis will happen much sooner than 2050. It will happen when the Baby Boomers start retiring and the Middle Class no longer generates enough tax revenues to support the Welfare State.

77 posted on 03/08/2008 9:26:58 AM PST by PapaBear3625
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To: PapaBear3625
The real crisis will happen much sooner than 2050. It will happen when the Baby Boomers start retiring and the Middle Class no longer generates enough tax revenues to support the Welfare State.

The baby boomers have already started retiring. SS goes in the red in 2017 and Medicare will go belly-up around 2013. Congress will just raise taxes to keep these failed systems going, which will further depress the economy. We will have to start making decisions like the Europeans, i.e., between guns and butter. They chose butter and we will probably do the same. If nothing is done, by 2060, the combination of Social Security and Medicare will account for more than 71 percent of the federal budget.

By 2050, one in 5 residents of this country will be foreign born. Our immigration policies will bring down this country thru the ballot box. Immigrants account for one in eight U.S. residents, the highest level in 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In about a decade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history.

78 posted on 03/08/2008 9:53:26 AM PST by kabar
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