When you have kids, when you have single moms with kids, when you have adult males with no education and only fit for low skilled work, and there are 42 million illegal immigrants that have poured over our borders (13% of our national population), you Libs think that is going to CLOSE the gap? Naw, even some Libs can do that math – which is why they are ONLY saying that the rich must have (as Hillary has said) “stuff taken away” and never is said that illegals must bring more to the table. And nowhere is this more evident than in California; Gateway Pundit shows that illegal immigrants are not pulling “their weight” (emphasis mine, reformatted):
A staggering 80% of Latino illegal immigrant families in California are living in poverty and need government assistance. The Obama administration wants to open to door to millions more. The Orange County Register reported:
Of course Obama wants more illiterate, poorly skilled immigrants to come in – it’s his ideology. He sees America as an Oppressor and in the Alinsky model, the Haves. Alinsky existed to use the levers of power to take from the Haves to give to the Have-nots. America is the “Have-iest” nation – so it is not just natural that the Have-nots come in – it is in his core, then, to take from Americans to give to others. How better than to force Citizens to support more and more of those that cannot (or will not).
The United Way study – “Struggling to Get By” – delves well beyond even the recent Census Bureau analysis, which, by factoring in housing costs, already established California as the state with the highest percentage of poor people, at roughly one in four. United Way expanded this percentage by calculating what the charitable organization called the “Real Cost Budget,” which includes not only rent but also costs for child care, medical, health and transportation.
By United Way’s calculation, roughly one in three Californians can barely make ends meet, despite the state’s relatively generous transfer payments, subsidies and general assistance. Latinos and African Americans, as one might expect, fare worse, but roughly one-in-five non-Hispanic whites and 28 percent of Asians also are deemed struggling.
Roughly half of Latino households fall into this condition of poverty or near-poverty, as do a similar share of African American households. Those who do worst generally are poorly educated single mothers and their children. Poverty and near-poverty are greatest among Latinos, who also are bearing the majority of children. It is hard to imagine a more urgent wake-up call.
Not surprisingly, many of the foreign-born, the source of much of California’s population growth in recent decades, have fared poorly. Only 25 percent of households headed by native-born Californians fall below the United Way “Real Cost Budget” line for economic distress, but it’s 45 percent for those headed by the foreign-born, and nearly 60 percent for families headed by a noncitizen. The highest percentage is among Latino households headed by a noncitizen – a staggering 80 percent fall below the minimal level.
These kinds of stats are never mentioned when Progressives talk about income inequality – and why would they? After all, never waste a crisis…
…especially when it is one they have manufactured.
