The greatest question facing Americans today in the arena of legal and illegal immigration is: how many is too many?  When is enough, enough?  How many more of the world’s poor can we handle?  How are we going to handle a line of immigrants that never ends?  As they stream into our country by the millions annually, what about our culture, language and quality of life?  What about our sustainability?

The United States absorbs, or another term may be more appropriate--chokes on 1.2 to 1.5 million legal immigrants annually.  America imports more immigrants than all other countries combined. For the past forty years, this country injected itself with an enormous immigrant load that added an additional 100 million people to America.

Whether we like to admit it or not, this colossal human overload created virtually every detrimental sociological, educational, environmental and resource dilemma we face today.  One look at Detroit, Michigan with a 76 percent high school dropout rate and 50 percent illiteracy causes exasperation to what has happened to the American Dream.  Notice the most tragic aspect of every third world country:  illiteracy!   It means more Americans that educate themselves will be paying more for those that chose illiteracy.  Ironically, their numbers increase much faster than educated Americans.  Therefore, all of us will be paying more for ‘their’ educational folly and fecundity.  As their educational levels drop, our standard of living and quality of life drop with them.

Take a look at California!   Anyone think it will survive its demographic situation by adding another 20 million immigrants within 30 years?  California suffers $26 billion in debts, but grows by 1,700 people daily. (Source: www.capsweb.org)   How about the latest figures in the Denver Post that show 43 American states cannot pay their bills and suffer billions in debts?

CULTURE OF ILLITERACY AND POVERTY GROWING IN THE USA

Within this growing and entrenched poverty and illiteracy paradigm, the numbers explode beyond recapture. In my last column, I urged a cap of 100,000 immigrants a year.  Dozens of emails urged me to promote a 10 year moratorium.  In my book, America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans, I DID advocate a 10 year moratorium.  If we don’t stop the massive immigrant in-bleeding, we cannot hope to save our educational systems or repair our illiteracy rates--

That leads up to the distressing fact that 1 in 7 Americans remains functionally illiterate:

Illiteracy Statistics

Source: National Right to Read Foundation

Where Illiteracy Leads  (2.3 million Americans in prison)

Source: National Institute for Literacy

Yet, not one U.S. Senator, U.S. House rep, state governor, mayor, President Obama or environmental organization whispers a peep about the immigration factor!   In fact, my two U.S. Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet propose to double legal immigration in the approaching amnesty bill. 

As it is today, legal and illegal immigrants pour into America at an astounding rate of 200,000 every 30 days, month in and month out, year in and year out. 

WHEN ENOUGH IS MORE THAN TOO MUCH

In a brilliant interview with one of America’s foremost leaders on the immigration equation, Dr. John Tanton www.thesocialcontract.com , you may visit one of 23 five minute interviews by George Colburn as he speaks to Dr. Tanton: http://www.johntanton.org/video/jt_video_2006_7.html .

Dr. Tanton asks:

1.  How many people should we admit?

2.  Who gets the 70 different visas to enter the United States?

3.  Who enforces their exit from the USA?

Having watched all 23 of these highly educational video tapes, I felt a greater understanding of our dilemma.  Obviously, we average Americans ignore our accelerating predicament as long as water falls from the tap and our cars enjoy ample gas and our heaters come on in the winter to keep our homes warm.  But, our ‘land of plenty’ will not persist with relentless immigration.

Dr. Tanton notes, “We cannot continue to solve carrying capacity issues by moving people and resources around the globe - we need to recognize the finiteness of resources and adapt our lifestyle to one that can be sustained over the millennia.

“In summary, fellow citizens need to "buck up" and take up the discussion about mass immigration. It is time to give up the name-calling, try to find the facts as they are, try to be concerned about future generations, and try to make legitimate projections. We must acknowledge that most people are going to have to bloom where they are planted - there is simply not the carrying capacity to move tens and hundreds of millions of people around the globe and still have any sort of survivable lifestyle.”

In a recent interview with Michael Cutler, former ICE agent, he said, “Democracy is not a spectator sport.”  I concur. If any of us, no matter what our race, creed or color might be, refuse to engage our U.S. Congress as we have not for 30 years as to the immigration equation—our children will find themselves living in a terribly degraded America where the American Dream will be described by the history books as a ‘fleeting fantasy’ from the era of 1950 to 2010. Again, take collective action at www.numbersusa.com ; www.fairus.org ; www.capsweb.org ; www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.alipac.us ; and dozens of other sites accessed at www.frostywooldridge.com.

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To take action:  First and foremost, join www.numbersusa.com and become one of nearly a million Americans making impact with pre-written faxes and phone calls to change immigration policies toward a stable future. Bi-partisan and highly effective!

Second, join www.thesocialcontract.com for up to date information via the Social Contract Quarterly. Exceptional publication to keep you informed.

www.fairus.org ; www.vdare.com ; www.alipac.us ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.cairco.org ; www.limitstogrowth.com ; www.capsweb.org ;  www.populationmedia.org ; www.worldpopulationbalance.org ; LimitsToGrowth.org

America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans by Frosty Wooldridge. This book covers all the ramifications of adding 100 million people to the USA in the next 26 years by 2035. 

Growth Busters with Dave Gardner:   Terrific 30 minute film.   Visit:  WEBSITE & TRAILER: www.growthbusters.com ; PREVIEW & DISCUSSION WITH FILMMAKER: http://vimeo.com/6648857 ; FACEBOOK FAN PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/Growthbusters ;  
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/growthbusters

Visit this site for a rendition of Colorado Governor Lamm’s speech: “How to Destroy America”

http://usawakeup.org/HowToDestroyAmerica.htm

Must see DVD:  “Blind Spot”   http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/blind_spot/

This movie illustrates America’s future without oil, water and other resources to keep this civilization functioning. It’s a brilliant educational movie!  www.blindspotdoc.com

In Canada: Tim Murray,

Director Immigration Watch Canada www.immigrationwatch.org

Vice President Biodiversity First http://biodiversityfirst.googlepages.com/index.htm

Blog http://sinkinglifeboat.blogspot.com  

Please visit Annie Leonard at www.storyofstuff.com for a compelling and highly interesting 20 minute video concerning our high consumption, highly wasteful and unsustainable society.  She educates and provides avenues for you to make a difference.

Visit this web site by Chris Martenson: http://www.chrismartenson.com/environmental_data 

In Colorado: visit www.soprisfoundation.org for information how you can network with like-minded folks to create a more sustainable future for Colorado and other states. 

View CNN’s “Planet in Peril” with Anderson Cooper and Lisa Ling:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/planet.in.peril/

Ghost of Thomas Paine—compelling video of common sense

http://www.lawatchdog.com/index.html#anchor_2296

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: D.C.:  (202)224-2854 comment@whitehouse.gov

Books to read:  “The Long Emergency” by James Howard Kunstler

                         “Peak Everything” by Richard Heinberg

                         “Too Many People” by Lindsey Grant

Become a member of “Frosty’s Press Agent Corps” whereby you volunteer a few hours to send out emails to top TV and radio hosts to offer top speakers on America’s overpopulation crisis driven by unending immigration.  Email frostyw@juno.com and receive two informational letters showing you exactly what to do.

Roy Beck's "IMMIGRATION BY THE NUMBERS" is the single best educational appreciation of America's future if we allow ourselves to add another 100 million people. Just click on this site for the most sobering experience of your children's future.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&q=roy+beck&hl=en

Roy Beck gives a graphic presentation of our fate if we continue to allow legal and illegal immigration to swamp this country. If you have children, you will be particular unnerved at their fate. I know Roy Beck personally and his integrity and knowledge stand at the top. Pass this web site 14 minute video far and wide across America to educate everyone you know. We either stop this human tsunami or the future of this country will be much like Rome's. We must, as a nation and a civilization, move to secure our country from this massive, unrelenting population overload from a line that never ends. This will be the most compelling 14 minute video of your life.

Once you see it, go to my web site for action items www.frostywooldridge.com and join www.numbersusa.com to become a weekly faxer of pre written letters and join the phone calling teams.

 Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet.  Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years.  Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we listen to irresponsible media and thus ignore the blatant symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.

From: Frosty Wooldridge 

This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life.  In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”.  Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term.  Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.

Go to: www.frostywooldridge.com  and click on “Audio/Video” tab

Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border.  In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece.  He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges.  He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com  He is the author of:  America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans.  Copies available:  1 888 280 7715