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To: tejek who wrote (718690)

5/31/2013 12:35:33 PM

From: one_less

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PEW research:

For the first time since Pew began asking this question in 2004, a majority of Americans now sees the loss of international respect for the United States as a major problem. The percentage of Americans saying the loss of international respect is a major problem has risen from 43% in 2005 to 48% in 2006 and 56% currently.

The most recent national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted May 21-25 among 1,505 adults, finds that majorities of Democrats (81%), independents (72%) and Republicans (60%) believe that the United States has lost global respect in recent years.

http://www.people-press.org/2008/06/16/more-see-americas-loss-of-global-respect-as-major-problem/

34 Signs That America Is In Decline

The United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline. Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this,

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/34-signs-that-america-is-in-decline

Left wing spokesman Noam Chompsky agrees with me:

“At the end of the second world war, the United States was absolutely at the peak of its power. It had half the world's wealth, and every one of its competitors was seriously damaged or destroyed.”

“Today, if you read, say, foreign policy journals … they're asking, "How do we prevent further losses?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/04/us-control-diminishing-own-world

lost $50 trillion in wealth over one year. I think people still haven’t come to terms or grasp the magnitude of wealth destruction we have just lived through. Sure, we can flip out about the $200 billion the U.S. Treasury injected into consumer debt markets so people can go out and jump on the consumption treadmill on Black Friday but that is a drop in the bucket compared to the wealth destruction we just went through. And future indicators point to further market distress.

http://www.mybudget360.com/50-trillion-in-global-wealth-gone-in-1-year-examining-the-financial-markets-of-the-world/

A healthy majority of Mexicans claim that their country rightfully owns much of the southwestern United States, while most Americans believe Washington should adopt stricter immigration standards and deploy U.S. troops along the border, a new poll says.

According to a just-published survey conducted by Zogby International, the polling firm found that a majority of Mexicans say the U.S. southwest “rightfully belongs to Mexico,” and that Mexican citizens should be able to come into those areas freely, without U.S. permission.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2002/06/14221/#9h1G76mHA8B6Jq3f.99

All told, Mexican cartels reside in 1,200 American communities as of 2011, up from 230 in 2008, according to the Associated Press. Below is a map that shows just how many states have been penetrated, according to the National Post's special report on the topic.

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/05/mapping-incredible-spread-of-mexican.html

The Heritage Foundation said Monday that legalizing illegal immigrants would cost taxpayers a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years — releasing a report that ignited a venomous battle over an immigration bill and who is truly representing the conservative movement in the debate.

Driving the costs in the Heritage report are simple demographics: Illegal immigrants are more likely to lack a high school education, and more than a third of households headed by illegal immigrants live below the poverty line, meaning those households consume more in services than they pay in taxes.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/report-legalizing-illegal-immigrants-cost-6-3-t/#ixzz2Ut6rNvGj

Staggering Cost Of Illegal
Aliens In America
Taxpayers Taken To The Cleaners
By Frosty Wooldridge

4-10-8

"Illegal alien migration into the United States costs American taxpayers $346 billion annually reported by the National Research Council. While employers of illegal aliens rake-in billions of dollars, the US citizens subsidize what may be called organized "Slavery in 21st Century America."

http://rense.com/general81/dtli.htm