Thomas Sowell's commentary today is very similar.....
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:21 PM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > *Has the Bell Begun To Toll for the GOP? > *by Patrick J. Buchanan > > Among the more controversial chapters in *Suicide of a > Superpower*<http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312579977/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=lewrockwell&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0312579977&adid=0BBYN74WWBPRX3E0T0X8&&ref-refURL=>, > my book published last fall, was the one titled, "The End of White > America." > > It dealt with the demographic decline of the white majority and what it > portends for education, the U.S. economy, politics and national unity. > > That book and chapter proved the proximate cause of my departure from > MSNBC, where the network president declared that subjects such as these are > inappropriate for "the national dialogue." > > Apparently, the mainstream media are reassessing that. > > For, in rare unanimity, *The New York Times*, *The Washington Post*, and *USA > Today* all led yesterday with the same story. > > "Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.," blared the > *Times*headline. "Minority Babies Majority in U.S.," echoed the > *Post*. "Minorities Are Now a Majority of Births," proclaimed *USA Today*. > > > The *USA Today* story continued, "The nation's growing diversity has huge > implications for education, economics and politics." > > Huge is right. > > Not only are whites declining as a share of the population, they are > declining in real terms. Between 2010 and 2011, the number of births to > white women fell 10 percent. The median age of white Americans, now 43 and > rising, means that half of all white women have moved past the age that > they are ever likely to bear more children. > > White America is a dying tribe. > > What do these statistics mean politically? Almost surely the end of the > Republican Party as a national governing institution. > > Republicans now depend on the vanishing majority for fully 90 percent of > their votes in presidential elections, while the Democratic Party wins 60 > to 70 percent of the Asian and Hispanic vote and 90 to 95 percent of the > black vote. > > The Democratic base is growing inexorably, while the Republican base is > shriveling. > > Already, California, Illinois and New York are lost. The GOP has not > carried any of the three in five presidential elections. When Texas – where > whites are a minority and a declining share of the population – tips, how > does the GOP put together an electoral majority? > > Western states like Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona, which > Republican nominees like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan swept almost every > time they ran, are becoming problematic for the party. > > Thus the GOP refrain: We must work harder to win over Hispanics. > > Undeniably true. But how does the GOP appeal to them? > > Fifty-three percent of all Hispanic children are born out of wedlock, with > no father in the home and many of the moms themselves high school dropouts. > Most Hispanic kids thus start school far behind. > > In tests of fourth-, eighth- and 12th-graders, their scores are closer to > those of African-American kids than whites and Asians. Their dropout rate > matches that of black kids. Absent affirmative action, not only are > America's colleges and universities but her professions are going to look > far more Asian and white than the national population. > > Not a formula for social peace. > > Comes the reply: We must spend more to close the racial gap in test > scores. Yet, according to *The Washington Examiner*, in the District of > Columbia, the community where we have spent perhaps the most per capita to > close the racial gap in test scores, the racial gap is by far the largest > in the nation. > > Not only do we seem not to know how to close it after four decades of > plunging trillions into public schools, the country is tapped out. We are > in the fourth consecutive year of trillion-dollar deficits, and our largest > and richest state, California, just discovered its deficit has exploded to > $16 billion. > > And why should Hispanics vote Republican? > > The majority of Hispanics are among that half of the population that pays > no income tax. Why should they vote for a party whose major plank is that > it will cut income taxes? > > Hispanics benefit disproportionately from government programs. > > Government puts their kids in Head Start before public school and provides > them with Pell grants and student loans after public school. > > From kindergarten through 12th grade, government educates their kids for > free. Government provides them with free or subsidized health care through > Medicaid and clinics. Government provides their families with public > housing and rent supplements. Government provides the food stamps that feed > the family. Government provides them with an annual earned income tax > credit, a check just for working. > > Government provides all these things, and what are Republicans going to > do? They promise to cut government. > > Again, why should Hispanics vote Republican? > > Establishment Republicans say the party should support amnesty for illegal > aliens. Yet this would make millions more eligible for federal programs in > a country sinking in debt and mean millions more Hispanics going to the > polls, and millions more coming to America in anticipation of the next > amnesty. > > How would that help the GOP? > > By endlessly expanding Great Society programs, by lopping taxpayers off > tax rolls, by supporting open borders and endless immigration from the > Third World, the Republican Party, out of sheer nobility of character, has > probably ensured its impending departure from history. > > http://buchanan.org/blog/has-the-bell-begun-to-toll-for-the-gop-5077 > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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