If You Blame America's Decline on Homosexuals, Abortions, Sharia Law, Evolution, Immigration, and The Poor: Congratulations! You Are What's Wrong With This Country

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One distractions has been that republicans claim tax cuts improve the economy, which is not supported by actual evidence.

Nearly half the wealth of the United States, one quarter of income, and significant tax revenue disappeared between 2006 and 2009.

State . . . . . . . Real Estate Wealth
Nevada . . . . . . . . . . -47%
California . . . . . . . . -35%
Florida . . . . . . . . . . -31%
Arizona . . . . . . . . . .-29%
Michigan . . . . . . . . -27%
.......
Oklahoma . . . . . . +15%
Texas . . . . . . . . . . +16%
Louisiana . . . . . . . +17%
Wyoming . . . . . . . +21%
North Dakota . . . . +21%

Data Courtesy Federal Housing Finance Agency

Wealth continued to grow in almost a dozen states while the rest of the economy collapsed.

We need to use evidence to establish exactly why that happened so this does not repeat.

The real story of the Great Recession economy emerges when we look at population growth.

State . . . . . . . . .Growth
Texas . . . . . . . . . 21%
South Carolina . . 15%
Wyoming . . . . . . 14%
Virginia . . . . . . . 13%
Alaska . . . . . . . . 13%
Hawaii . . . . . . . . 12%
Maryland . . . . . . . 9%
Oklahoma . . . . . . 8%
North Dakota . . . .5%

Data Courtesy US Census Bureau.

That is almost the same list that escaped the Great Recession.

Birth among US citizens has fallen to less than 2 per woman, well below the 2.3 required to compensate for mortality. That means that immigration is required to sustain industries like construction, real estate, and finance.

A coincidence emerges when we look at states that nullified the Real ID Act of 2005. The downturn in the "bikini graph" corresponds to when enforcement of the Real ID Act began.

Texas
South Carolina
Wyoming
Virginia
Alaska
Hawaii
Maryland
Oklahoma
Louisiana
North Dakota

The database established by the Real ID Act is actually being used for voter suppression and not for national security.

The "immigrant documentation fee" can cost $10,000, which is 5 months income for the average immigrant.

The Real ID Act of 2005 bans drivers licenses for migrant workers that cannot afford this fee. That allows state attorney generals the discretion to suspend civil rights under the authority of the Patriot Act.

Police in states that adopted the Real ID Act violate the "illegal search and seizure" clause of the US constitution by selling vehicles confiscated from unlicensed drivers and notifying immigration services about the "crime".

California makes $40 million from illegal auto sales in 2009, which collapses the automobile industry.

The following shows how the Real ID Act contributed to the collapse of US real estate in the 4 worst states.

Nevada, 0.25 million immigrants depart
Florida, 1.1 million immigrants depart
Arizona, 0.57 million immigrants depart
California, 2.9 million immigrants depart

1/3 of immigrants live in California. Reverse immigration accounts for population reduction of over 7 million between 2007 and 2011 (US Census Bureau).

Year . . . . Undocumented . . . . . Total
2006 . . . . 11 million . . . . . . . 18 million
2007 . . . . 13 million . . . . . . . 22 million
2009 . . . . 11 million . . . . . . . 18 million
2011 . . . . 10 million . . . . . . . 15 million

There were about 160 million dwellings in the United States in 2006, with the following vacancy rates (US Census Bureau).

Year . . . . .Vacancy . . . . . Empty
2006 . . . . . . 2% . . . . . . . 3 million
2007 . . . . . . 5% . . . . . . 10 million
2009 . . . . . 11% . . . . . . 17 million
2011 . . . . . 12% . . . . . . 18 million

George Bush signed the Mortgage Debt Forgiveness Act of 2007 after housing abandonment threatened the banking system.

This was followed by the Housing Rescue Law of 2008 that required loan modifications.

These are the largest cities devastated most by housing abandonment.

City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Housing (Rental)
Tucson, Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . .7% . (16%)
Indianapolis, Indiana . . . . . . . . 5% . (14%)
Memphis, Tennessee. . . . . . . . 4% . (14%)
Atlanta, Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . .5% . (12%)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana . . . . . . 4% . (13%)
Dayton, Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5% . (11%)
Detroit, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . .2% . (17%)
St. Louis, Missouri . . . . . . . . . . 3% . (11%)
Kansas City, Missouri . . . . . . . . 4% . (11%)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma . . . . 5% . (10%)

The greatest negative impact for unemployment happens when entire industries disappear from the US economy over large geographic areas.

The impact on industries like construction, real estate, and finance can be seen by looking at the change in population growth (1990 to 2010).

State . . . . . Change in Growth
Nevada . . . . . . . .-31
Arizona . . . . . . . .-15
Colorado . . . . . . .-14
Oregon . . . . . . . . .-8
Georgia . . . . . . . . .-8
Michigan . . . . . . . .-8
Idaho . . . . . . . . . . -7
Washington . . . . . -7
New Mexico . . . . .-7
Mississippi . . . . . .-6
Florida . . . . . . . . .-6

Information Courtesy United States Census Bureau

While the populations of Nevada and Arizona did grow, that growth declined suddenly in 2006.

Arizona growth went from 4%/year during the 1990s to less than 2.5%/year during the 2000s. Likewise, Nevada growth went from 6.6%/year to 3.5%/year.

Those growth changes rippled through the economy and eliminated millions of jobs in construction, real estate, and finance in 40 different states. Less than a dozen survive the economic collapse - all are opposed to the Real ID Act.

All of this is remarkable because California passed a law in 2006 which apologized for deportation of several million people in 1929, over half of whom were US citizens - the very same year our current economic collapse began.

New Mexico, Utah, and Washington issue drivers licences to immigrants despite the Real ID Act ban, and California follows in 2012.

An examination of the past 100 years confirms the link.

If you omit Reagan and Taft, then republican presidents have a record of 100% economic failure for over a century.

President . . . . . . Unemployment Change
Harding (R) . . . .+0.3%/yr (collapse)
Coolidge (R) . . . . 0.0%/yr (no change)
Hoover (R) . . . . +2.5%/yr (collapse)
Roosevelt (D) . . .-0.9%/yr (better)
Truman (D) . . . . -0.15%/yr (better)
Eisenhower (R) . +0.3%/yr (collapse)
Kennedy (D) . . . . 0.0%/yr (no change)
Johnson (D) . . . .-0.4%/yr (better)
Nixon (R) . . . . . . +0.3%/yr (collapse)
Ford (R) . . . . . . . +0.9%/yr (collapse)
Carter (D) . . . . . -0.15%/yr (better)
Regan (R) . . . . . -0.2%/yr (better)
Bush I (R) . . . . . +0.5%/yr (collapse)
Clinton (D) . . . . -0.4%/yr (better)
Bush II (R) . . . . . 0.2%/yr (collapse)
Obama (D) . . . .- 0.1%/yr (better)

Reagan and Taft are the only republicans presidents with pro-immigration policies, and the only republicans that did not collapse the economy.

Wilson is the only democrat president that collapsed the economy, and also the only democrat president with anti-immigration policies.

Ronald Reagan signed an amnesty program for undocumented immigrants that increased the US population.

Taft refused to enforce discriminatory immigration laws.

Woodrow Wilson signed discriminatory laws, like the one banning "... aliens over sixteen ... who cannot read the English or Hebrew ...", which was specifically intended to outlaw Mexicans. The only democrat to do so.

This provides conclusive overwhelming evidence that discriminatory immigration policies cause population instability, which is one of the factors that triggers economic collapse in the United States.

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Additional References:

Kevin R. Johnson, September 1, 2005, The Forgotten "Repatriation" of Persons of Mexican Ancestry and Lessons for the "War on Terror", Pace Law Review, http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawrev/39/

J.K. Galbraith, 1954,The Great Cra$h 1929 Wednesday, October 23rd 1929 (ch. VI, end of 4)

Walden Slew, March 8, 2008, Banks face "systemic margin call," $325 billion hit, JPM, http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/03/08/us-wallstreet-losses-jpm-idUSN0832645120080308

Anonymous, NASA Finds Source of 1930s Drought in Tropical Waters, Goddard Space Flight Center, March 18, 2004, http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0319dustbowl.html

Esmeralda Rodriguez-Scott, Patterns of Mexican Migration to the United States, Center for International Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, http://www1.appstate.edu/~stefanov/proceedings/rodriguez.htm

http://www.doctorlindstrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Crosby-Virgin-1976.pdf

http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/state-bankruptcy-filings-statistics-1276.php

http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/gapmap/

Illegal Immigrants paid $11 billion to social security trust fund but can't collect, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2017113852_immigtaxes29.html

Illegal Immigrants pay $11 Billion in Taxes in 2010,

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-04-20/local/29470037_1_sales-taxes-tax-revenue-property-taxes

http://www.snopes.com/politics/politicians/nationaldebt.asp

http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/06/mexican-repatriation-the-great-depression-and-immigration-policy.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0lf4kENkxo

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/12/california-police-illegal-immigrant-alien-towing-immigration/1#.UB_T4FFiEy4

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