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New Report: U.S. Infrastructure Overwhelmed by Influx of Immigrants

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Press Release, Social Contract Press, January 5, 2009

Monday, January 5, 2009

Contact: Fran Griffin
Griffin Communications
E-Mail: PR@griffnews.com

$1.6 Trillion Needed to Repair and Maintain Nation’s Hospitals, Schools, Parks, Water Supply, Bridges, and Basic Infrastructures

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Immigration policies need to go hand-in-hand with decisions to repair the deteriorating U.S. infrastructure, according to a unique new report to be released on January 13. “The Twin Crises: Immigration and Infrastructure,” by prominent researcher Edwin S. Rubenstein, will be released by the Social Contract Press on January 13 at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Immigration will be responsible for more than 80 percent of the spending needed to expand infrastructure capability between now and mid-century, according to the report. Ed Rubenstein examines 15 categories of infrastructure: airports, border security, bridges, dams and levees, electricity (the power grids), hazardous waste removal, hospitals, mass transit, parks and recreation facilities, ports and navigable waterways, public schools, railroads, roads and highways, solid waste and trash, and water and sewer systems.

The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that $1.6 trillion dollars is needed to repair and maintain U.S. infrastructure in next 5 years. The massive influx of immigrants into the U.S. is increasing the demands on an overburdened infrastructure, much of which was built shortly after World War II and is outdated and deteriorating.

Edwin S. Rubenstein, a financial analyst and economics journalist, was a contributing editor of Forbes and economics editor of National Review. He was also a senior economist for W. R. Grace & Company, where he directed studies on waste and inefficiency in the federal government for the Grace Commission. He has been an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and research director of the Hudson Institute. The author of two books, The Right Data (1994) and From Empire State to the Vampire State: New York in a Downward Transition, he has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, the Harvard Business Review, and The New York Times.

“If the infrastructure crisis could be fixed by spending money, there would be no crisis,” Mr. Rubenstein explained. “Since 1987, capital spending on transportation infrastructure has increased by 2.1 percent per year above the inflation rate. At $233 billion (2004 dollars), infrastructure is already one of the largest categories of government spending. Our infrastructure is ‘crumbling’ because population growth has overwhelmed the ability of even these vast sums to expand capacity.

“The immigration debate needs to be framed in terms of resource depletion, declining infrastructure, and simple fairness,” Ed Rubenstein stated. “Population growth requires additional capacity and increases the rate of depreciation of the existing infrastructure. Immigration policy must play a role in making decisions about U.S. infrastructure.”

“The Twin Crises: Immigration and Infrastructure” report will be released at a News Conference at 1 p.m. on January 13 in the Lisagor Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St., N.W., in Washington, D.C. Advance copies of the report are available for review by working journalists.

For more information contact Fran Griffin of Griffin Communications at PR@griffnews.com.

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(Posted on January 7, 2009)

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1 — Winston Smith wrote at 6:22 PM on January 7:

Just proves what I’ve been saying. Whites and Asians contribute more than they take from the system. Blacks and Hispanics take more than they give. As long as Blacks and Hispanics are a small enough percentage of the population, the surplus Whites and Asians produce will offset the negatives. Problem is, there are arlready far to many Blacks and Hispanics. For over three decades, America has been running a huge budget deficit. That deficit has been compensated for by running up the national debt, and seemingly endless inflationary spending. This is a trend that can’t continue. At the moment, 36% of government revenue goes just to paying the interest on the national debt. With bankruptcies coming more and more often, all of the layoffs, and the severely decreased consumer spending, tax revenues are dropping like a ton of bricks. At the same time, our expenses are continuing to sky rocket, and the rest of the world is cutting off our lines of credit. I don’t see how we get out of this one. Whites don’t have to become an absolute minority before the system crashes, we just have to become to small of a percentage of the overall population to carry the weight of everyone else.

2 — Schoolteacher wrote at 8:44 PM on January 7:

It is important that the truly vital members of White society understand racial realities. If the fashion industry or the mental therapists can’t absorb the facts, they can be disregarded, but we actually need engineers.

3 — sbuffalonative wrote at 9:58 PM on January 7:


The other aspect of this story that is going to need our attention is the question of who is going to be hired to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure? Are these jobs going to go to legal American residents or are they going to go to crews of illegal aliens just as they did in New Orleans?

One of the provisions of Reagans ‘one time only’ amnesty was supposed to be verification of legal residency. If the government had simply obeyed their own law, we wouldn’t have an illegal alien problem.

With unemployment rates hovering at about 6% and climbing, there should be plenty of America workers to to do this work.

No Jobs For Illegals.

4 — Anonymous wrote at 10:03 PM on January 7:

In other words, the mere ENFORCEMENT of current laws would result in a drastic decrease of taxpayers funds needed to be expended to maintain our standard of living. Tossing out the illegal South Americans, their Anchor Babies and turning OFF the flow of the H-1B job Thieves would do wonders to turning this nation around economically. Imagine if the corporate suites no longer had an H-1B arguing for the export of your job to India!

5 — Anonymous wrote at 10:10 PM on January 7:

There is no one in control in this country. Where is all this money suppose to come from to support all these people coming from third world countries especially as they become the majority? The conspiracy since the early 1900’s to destroy this country has finally been fulfilled. Unfortunately, for those people they will also have killed the golden goose. If this country is destroyed, they will also put their own country in peril. That particular nation would have been destroyed long ago if this country had not so willingly committed human and financial resources to defend it.

6 — Anonymous wrote at 11:34 PM on January 7:

Maybe people are starting to wake up from the slumbers. Throw the invaders out!

7 — Bobby wrote at 12:31 AM on January 8:

Infrastruture decay. Right. Environmental damage. Right. Yet you won’t find a single progressive voice in the U.S. calling for a stop to illegal immigration and massive legal immigration. I did, however, hear one progressive on the radio suggest places in the U.S. to live that are “sustainable.” He said that the South West United States won’t be soon. Yet, ten to one, I’d bet anyone that he is for illegal immigration and continued massive legal immigration. These people are demented, there’s no other conclusion a rational person can reach about them.

8 — HH wrote at 12:55 AM on January 8:

Keep this one in your mental file. The Annointed One - that is Barak Obama, is ever so fond of invoking the crumbling intrastructure of America and how much attention it requires. Let us be prepared to show him and is ilk just why their destructive wide-open immigration policies, and amnesties work in stark contradiction to their own stated concerns!

9 — June wrote at 10:03 AM on January 8:

I hope that before the new administration cuts any funding to the necessary programs in this country, they consider eliminating benefits to illegals. California alone spends over a billion in health care for people who don’t even belong here. Mulitply that by all the other benefits given by all the other states - that savings would certainly build a few bridges. Another cost cutter could be the pork that Washington loves. In fact there should be a morotorium on salaries for Congress. They can make up their minds in the dead of night to vote themselves a raise and Americans are helpless to do anything about it. No wonder they fight for a place at the trough. They’re set for life as most of us never will be.

10 — Lisette wrote at 6:06 PM on January 8:

“The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that $1.6 trillion dollars is needed to repair and maintain U.S. infrastructure in next 5 years. The massive influx of immigrants into the U.S. is increasing the demands on an overburdened infrastructure, much of which was built shortly after World War II and is outdated and deteriorating.”

Finally some people are coming out of the coma. The immigrants now coming to the US do not and I say it loud…they do not come the contribute anything…they all come to get something for nothing. While the US infrastructure is deteriorating some politicians are calling for massive spending on behalf of working families (code word for the poor & immigrants)…..I am fed-up with the non-sense…everywhere you go all they get priority in the marketplace while offers have to suffer and foot the bill. If they are not strong enough to fight this injustice they get crushed.

11 — BonBon wrote at 9:22 PM on January 8:

June writes:

“…there should be a moratorium on salaries for Congress. They can make up their minds in the dead of night to vote themselves a raise…They’re set for life as most of us never will be.

Yeah, no kidding. While we drones are mandated into a specious, bankrupt Ponzi scheme that would put anyone in private industry behind bars (as in Madoff), Congressmen are often better off AFTER retirement:

“…members of Congress can’t lose in their gold-plated retirement plans.

Cushy doesn’t begin to describe their retirement plans. They are more like small lotteries…congressional pensions provide double to triple the benefits offered by most private employers, studies show.

In fact, they are so generous that some former lawmakers’ annual pensions are twice as high as their pre-retirement congressional salary….”

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23577

Yeah, your taxpayer dollars at work, supporting useless politicians who have made our lives hell.

Bon


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