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We do not have an Hispanic problem. We have an immigrant, minority, and younger voter problem. The changing demographics of this country have electoral consequences and have for decades except the Rep political elites and pundits have failed to recognize it. Some of it has to do with the huge influence the Chamber of Commerce has over the GOP. They have been pushing more guest workers, more immigrants, and amnesty to keep the flow of cheap exportable labor coming into this country to reduce wages and increase profits. In the process they have privatized the benefits and socialized the costs, which are killing our schools, healthcare, and law enforcement.

Now the solution appears to embrace amnesty as a way of getting more minority and immigrant votes. The exact opposite will happen as it will increase Dem voters and lose more of the GOP base who will be upset about such a move.

57% of immigrant headed households with children are on welfare. Hispanics have an out of wedlock birthrate of 50%. They have the highest school drop out rate of any group. They are a natural Dem constituency.

The noise of “racism” overcomes your well thought-out realities and your exposition of the real problem. Maybe what Obama said about “you can’t change Washington from the inside” is true of the Republican Party on this issue. Somehow a way must be found to have what you have stated heard.People only hear “bumper stickers” it seems.Something like, “importing slave labor much?”

57% of immigrant headed households with children are on welfare. Hispanics have an out of wedlock birthrate of 50%. They have the highest school drop out rate of any group. They are a natural Dem constituency.

You often have such relevant statistics. And we often hear that 47 million Americans are on food stamps and that 100 million receive some sort of payment from government.

I've often wondered about a couple of stats our government does not seem to provide:

1. What percentage of working age American heads of households don't work, and receive most or all of the support for themselves and their dependents from government?

2. Now 41% of US children are born out-of-wedlock. Do you know what percentage of the single moms are on welfare, or receive most of their support form government?

Those two are related, but also some differances.

Just from the stats we are provided, it looks like somewhere around 12% - 20% of US heads of household could receive most of their support from government. And those on welfare more or less permanently never appear in our unemployment stats.

Do you have any idea on this, or any estimate of what the percentages might be?

And, I think there is little or no hope of ever turnng around our economy until huge reductions are made in the trillion per year now spent on welfare programs, and several million adults are moved from welfare to work.

We do not have an Hispanic problem. We have an immigrant, minority, and younger voter problem. The changing demographics of this country have electoral consequences and have for decades except the Rep political elites and pundits have failed to recognize it.

Exactly right. If we can't make the GOP brand attractive to young voters again and overcome the opposition's massive effort to damage it among that demographic, then the racial statistics won't really matter. Liberty has an inherent appeal to youth, but Reagan was the last President able to articulate a GOP vision of liberty.