In Chapter $12 a gallon, “The tide of gasoline prices will shift Americans from the burbs to the cities,” Steiner said. “If civilization is to march forward, however, a couple of acres simply won’t be an accessible or realistic part of most Americans’ lives, nor, with high energy costs, will a huge house and yard be a desirable way to live. Our cities will regroup, renew and grow denser.”
Continue Reading Add comment October 9th, 2009
Chris Steiner’s book, $20 PER GALLON, methodically illustrates how American society, in fact, world societies will change as the price of gasoline inevitably rises to $20 a gallon. Many may scream, “What about the 100 years of reserves in the Bakken Fields, or the ocean floor off of Alaska and more fields in the Gulf of Mexico?”
Continue Reading 1 comment October 8th, 2009
For 15 years, from the mid 1970s to 1990, I worked in Detroit, Michigan. I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere! Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it and ignored it.
Continue Reading 1 comment October 7th, 2009
By Frosty Wooldridge
Nothing beats Colorado High Country in late September! Cool mornings morph into warm days. Water fowl rest in lakes on their way to winter feeding grounds. Sandhill cranes glide through Buena Vista on their thousands of miles journeys to warmer climes. Magnificent elk bugle their ancient rituals in search of mates. Hawks ply limitless blue skies in a never ending pursuit for their dinner. In the canyons, raging white water cascades over multi-colored rocks on a journey that ends up in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans.
Sweeping up every mountain slope, a mantle of verdant pines renders a visual silence “too silent to be real,” said Gordon Lightfoot. As if touched on a Van Gogh canvas, “aspen tremulous,” trembling leaves, provide visitors textures and fresh green highlights.
But once Jack Frost touches his magic wand on the Colorado High Country, he sets off a magical kaleidoscope of colors unrivaled in the American West.
Every year, I take a two day bicycle tour across four passes for a first hand inspection of Mother Nature’s handiwork. I ride my own “Quadruple Color Bypass”. It promises magic, serenity and a changing of the season.
After parking the car in Frisco, I packed my bike, Condor, for the ride over Vail, Battle Summit Mountain, Tennessee and Freemont passes. With four panniers bursting with camping gear and food, I headed up along the river toward Copper Mountain.
The morning air--crisp, clean, full of energy—powered my journey through a tunnel of golden aspen trees. At 50 percent color change, a full bouquet of tints greeted my eyes. Sheer delight! But beyond the blazing yellow leaves, many falling along my path, a beautiful mosaic of ground color caught my attention even more. Leaves turned into bronze, topaz, burgundy, gold, canary yellow, rose pink, maroon and crimson. Below, cascading water provided ‘white music’ that soothed my mind. Looking to my left, blazing gold aspen trees marched up the side of gray rock to peaks 1,000 feet overhead.
Ahead, a gold/green tree tunnel beckoned. A number of other bikers raced by my slow moving touring machine. “We’re in for a good ride Condor” I said. The other cyclists seemed in a hurry. I passed several lakes with long straw grass floating across the surface while mallards played among the brushes.
The six mile paved path continued winding, dipping and climbing along the river. Every curve brought new angles of the hard rock mountains to my left and the crystal river flowing to my right. I pushed the pedals onward until reaching Copper Mountain. The crazy rush of the I-70 traffic knocked me back to my senses, but I dove back into the paved trail leading up Vail Pass. Ah, quiet again, yet another river, and more ground cover greeted my eager eyes. I find pedaling along a river makes the effort effortless and physically incidental. My eyes watch for everything and my spirit settles into a cycling ‘satori’ or sweet spot of the ‘perfect moment’. Condor, quiet and smooth beneath me, has taken me to many far flung corners of the world without a complaint. I look down to the plastic bubble on my gradient scale to see 10 percent, woops, 15 percent! Back to 6 percent! It’s an easy ride to the top of Vail, even with 50 pounds of gear. Along the way, I stopped for a half dozen pieces of trash tossed by careless cyclists. Thankfully, most appreciate the sacredness of the wilderness. Take only pictures and leave no trace!
At the top, I talked to folks from Kansas, Utah, New York and Michigan. They marveled at the colors. I agreed that our state finds itself blessed with autumn colors capped by majestic mountains and bountiful azure skies.
As I finished my apple, I noticed a touring rider coming down a dirt road with a sign, “Shrine Pass”. Peter pedaled over to me and introduced himself. From the Republic of Czech, he’s riding for two years around the world. We exchanged business cards.
I said, “How was that ride over Shrine Pass?”
“How you say? Superb beyond compare,” he said in broken English. “Take it my friend for a totally wilderness experience.”
After exchanging a few touring stories, we departed. I cranked up a dusty dirt road leading toward higher altitudes. Yes, I could have been coasting down to Vail, but I felt a good change from the Vail scene, plus the fact that this route would skirt Battle Summit Mountain Pass. It’s a long grind with a loaded touring bike.
Up, up, up, I climbed through the dust, but as I gained altitude, more pines, more rock, more ground cover that held tight to the tundra. Deep colors beckoned my eyes. The road snaked up and down, curved left, then right. Always upward toward the pass! Each pass enjoys its own personality. I found myself enjoying the quiet.
As I looked up from my pedaling toils, what do you know, a large racked bull elk looked up from his grazing at me not 40 yards away! Majestic! While they wonder through Evergreen often, I find them enthralling and regal in their wilderness settings. Something about their energy that inspires the Edward Abbey, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau in me.
“We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” Thoreau
I like traveling with my wheels close to the ground, yet my feet fly above it. I softly feather the ground with each pedal stroke. Something about my steel steed laced together with spokes and a two bands of rubber that carries me to distant quests.
At the top, Shrine Pass, probably 11,000 feet, proved a flat pass with lots of open fields that surrendered to pine trees. I followed a narrow dirt road that meandered downward at a slight three percent descent. Soon, the road re-entered deep pine woods along a river. Again, ground plants danced with colors right out of a Crayola box. Aspen once again dominated mountain sides to my right. They seemed to be selectively painted with a brush that created different shades of yellow, green, gold and in some places red dabs. Brilliant!
Condor, with 1.5 tires, gingerly made his way down the mountain, and to both our delights, the descent at three percent took 1.3 hours of gravity power! I snapped a dozen pictures and talked to a few campers along the way. At one point, I stopped at a cabin well over 100 years old. Wonder if the ghosts of the past could talk, what they might say about those miners in their time?! “In the winter, it’s colder than a well diggers ass,” they might lament.
Late in the afternoon, I rolled into Red Cliff. Three towns in Colorado might be called ‘funky’! Ward, Leadville and Red Cliff! Junked homes, trailers sunk into the ground, nice homes, junked cars and total lack of any pride in the areas! Several strange houses in Red Cliff make a visitor wonder who and why they built them. I picked up water at the “Provisions” store before climbing out of the town along the river that eventually ran into the Eagle River.
Above the town, I crossed the stunning arched metal green bridge that connected to Route 24 and headed south toward Leadville. I pedaled through deep woods along the Eagle River. Lumberjacks cut many trees from the beetle blight. Just before Camp Hale and the 10th Mountain Division soldier memorial, I camped in the woods by a stand of flaming golden aspens on the east side of the highway.
I pitched camp, cooked up hot chocolate and pasta primavera along with onion buns. As my food steamed, I sipped on soothing marshmellowed warmth that soothed my soul. I watched the sun set over the notched mountains to the west. After filling my tummy with tasty dinner, I unrolled my sleeping bag, wrote some notes, watched the sky turn to the ink black of space—and one by one, watched stars make their appearance in the night sky.
Next morning, hot oatmeal and apple slices and, of course, two cups of hot chocolate. God, it doesn’t get any better than that. Several hundred aspen leaves fell on my tent during the night. Just too cool!
After washing up, I hit the road with a blue-gray sky. Soon enough, I pedaled past Camp Hale. Thank the gentlemen of the 10th Mountain Division for their bravery in WWII.
Ah, the road headed upward. I geared down to my granny with a 24 to a 34 chain ring to freewheel. Only five miles to the top! Near the summit, an old Standard Oil gas station with a house offers cyclists free water. I tried the drum: Voila! Water! But even more fun, I watched a ruby throated hummingbird that landed on a pole above the roof of the building. He fluttered, flew and returned. His wings caught the morning sun. He looked around his domain, fluttered up and returned. I watched for five minutes. Finally, he flew away and so I returned to my own flight.
More aspen led me all the way to the top of 10,400 foot Tennessee Pass. At the top, an apple and a few pictures gave me enough time pull on some layers for the descent.
Something about coasting downhill after you earned the altitude. The bike rolls sweetly as if your legs enjoy enormous power! Down along the river, and in the distance, Mount Elbert, Massive and a line of 14ers that I have climbed. Further in those mountains, my memories of competing against Lance Armstrong in the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race Across the Sky.
I pressed the top gear on Condor while he responded by flying across the tundra. Horses and barns, over 100 years old, stood off the highway. Great feeling as the bike and man ‘flew’ toward 10,152 foot Leadville.
Once there, I filled my water bottles before taking off to Freemont. I saddled up and headed into a stiff wind with gathering storm clouds from the north. The road lead through golden aspen stands surrounded by green pines in exquisite forms only painted by nature’s indolent hand.
A half hour later, I faced the long, steep climb to the top of Freemont Pass.
“Well big guy,” I said to Condor. “Let’s get to the top before that storm hits.”
Yes, over the years and the many miles, I do talk to Condor. He possesses a personality. I’ve taken him apart and put him back together. He’s carried me over 16,000 foot passes in the Andes. He’s carried me across the Atacoma Desert, driest in the world. Dropped me below sea level in Death Valley at 116 degrees of suffocating heat! He has taken me to where the condors fly. As much as we’ve been through, he’s become a friend in my mind.
An hour later, we reached the sign, “Freemont Pass 11, 318”. A small exhibit behind the sign shows that Climax Mine, started in 1898 or so, yielded 700 million tons of rock mined to find minerals. Of course, it destroyed an entire mountain! John Denver lamented, “…more scars across the land.”
As I wrote notes and took pictures of the outdoor museum, which by the way, proved exceptionally interesting, a nasty, ominous, black storm front moved in over the pass. “Holy catfish Batman!” I said.
I ran over to Condor, took out my rain gear and pulled it on. I watched a rain squall wall of water heading toward me. By the time I got on Condor and we headed down the pass, it hit. Boy did it hit! For the next 10 miles to Copper, I coasted through a downpour. Yippee ki yo ki yea!
At Copper, it stopped. Hey, as long as I rode warm and dry, not a problem! But on the way back down the six mile path along the river to Frisco, the rain created more magic. Water glistened from every golden leaf as the sun broke through the cobalt sky. More leaves fell almost like a carpet for me to ride down that paved path. To my right, instant waterfalls cascaded down the steep slopes like silver ear rings from female movie stars at the Oscars. The ground colors turned even more wild and beautiful with water soaking them into glistening diamonds.
Within a short time, I pedaled into Frisco. Condor returned to the roof rack and my panniers found themselves dumped into the trunk. A raging hunger found satisfaction at the local Quisnos sub shop! And, a big mug of hot chocolate! Soon, I returned to the traffic heading back home. Condor and I lived a most excellent color tour adventure.
As Muir said, “Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature’s darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com Enjoy his three bicycle books: HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS; BICYCLING THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE—SLICE OF HEAVEN, TASTE OF HELL; BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD—TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION. He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans.
1 comment September 26th, 2009
By Frosty Wooldridge
Part 2: A book review
Chris Steiner’s book, $20 PER GALLON, methodically illustrates how American society, in fact, world societies will change as the price of gasoline inevitably rises to $20 a gallon. Many may scream, “What about the 100 years of reserves in the Bakken Fields, or the ocean floor off of Alaska and more fields in the Gulf of Mexico?”
Again, emotions and sheer hearsay drive such hopeful myths. You may call the author a cretin, but the coming rises in the price of a gallon of gas cannot and will not be mitigated by hysteria. Again, as a teenager, I once bought gasoline at 19 cents a gallon in a gas war! If the Bakken fields held such vast quantities of oil as purported—you would see 19 cents a gallon again! Not!
With clever ingenuity, Steiner titles his chapters from Chapter $5 all the way to Chapter $20. He methodically illustrates how each of us will be affected by the costs of a gallon of gas. He advances some positive aspects of bettering humanity as prices rise.
“Oil prices enabled the SUV to thrive, but they will ultimately bury the SUV in its grave,” Steiner said. “Americans will, at long last, embrace diesel when gas reaches $6 a gallon. At the same time, $6 a gallon will mean fewer lives lost to crumpled steel and unyielding pavement.”
Steiner states that people will drive less, slower, smarter and wiser. Already in 2008 with $4.50 a gallon, Americans drove 100 billion less miles than they drove in 2007.
“Assuming the prices are sustained for a year at $4.00 a gallon, that would save 1,000 lives every month,” Steiner said. “That’s 12,000 people annually, almost a third of those killed on U.S. roads every year. At $6 a gallon, 15,600 lives will be saved and at $7 a gallon, 20,000 lives will be saved.” Currently, 44,000 Americans lose their lives on our highways annually.
When it comes to good health, Steiner said that rising prices will mean a trimmer America. Fat people, and America owns the record for obesity at 150 million plus, will walk or ride a bike. Obesity costs Americans $117 billion annually in early mortality and medical expenses.
“High gas prices will clean up our skies, clear our vistas and scrub our lungs,” Steiner said. “$6 gas will spark an infrastructure revolution and the era of widespread tolling. The yellow school bus will disappear from America’s roads. High prices will temper the major league travelling in youth sports. Police will patrol on foot.”
But hang onto your hats! At $8 a gallon, air travel will become quite constricted. In fact, Steiner said, “The skies will empty. When gas inevitably climbs to $8 a gallon, the airline carnage will be vast and it will come swiftly. When gas prices reach $8, airline carries will be throwing down 60 percent of their operating costs to fuel. That cannot be sustained. The ultimate contraction awaits. The airline dinosaurs will meet their asteroid deaths.”
Once the airlines cannot service Las Vegas, Vail, Aspen and Jackson Hole ski areas—as well as many other pricy resorts in the Caribbean—we will see major changes in the economy. When you cannot pay air fare to Disneyworld, those attractions will become extinct. Most college bound teens will see their school choices shrink drastically.
“Gas prices of $10 a gallon may seem far away, but if you look at the fundamentals of the world’s supplies, and the certainty of rising demands, it’s a number we will almost definitely see within the next 10 years,” Steiner said. “At the same time, plug-in hybrids will form the bridge we need to an electric car world.”
A man named Shai Agassi heads up Better Place, a company he founded to solve the logistical riddles facing electric cars in a world and infrastructure built for gasoline. “We don’t have a choice,” he said. “We either do this, or we suffer the catastrophic failures of economic ruin and global climate change.”
Steiner said, “Converting our personal transportation platform from one based on gasoline to one powered by electricity is one of the most imperative measures we will take in shaping a sustainable future for our country and for the global civilization as a whole. This will not be an easy transition. Car ownership will plummet at $10 a gallon. People will end up forfeiting their cars altogether. Traffic flows on major arteries will ebb and the side effects that began to take hold at $6 gas—fewer crash deaths, less pollution, less obesity—will be firing in full force at $10 gas.”
With rising gas prices, Steiner says we will face another big change: plastics! That pesky invention created the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, trash all over the planet and more gadgets than humans can handle.
Part 3: Finding out what will happen when gas rises from $12 to $20 a gallon. Back to basics for food, for water for living.
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To take action: First and foremost, join www.numbersusa.com and become one of nearly a million Americans making impact with pre-written faxes and phone calls to change immigration policies toward a stable future. Bi-partisan and highly effective!
Second, join www.thesocialcontract.com for up to date information via the Social Contract Quarterly. Exceptional publication to keep you informed.
www.fairus.org ; www.vdare.com ; www.alipac.us ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.cairco.org ; www.limitstogrowth.com ; www.capsweb.org ; www.populationmedia.org ; www.worldpopulationbalance.org ; LimitsToGrowth.org
America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans by Frosty Wooldridge. This book covers all the ramifications of adding 100 million people to the USA in the next 26 years by 2035.
Visit this site for a rendition of Colorado Governor Lamm’s speech: “How to Destroy America”
http://usawakeup.org/HowToDestroyAmerica.htm
Must see DVD: “Blind Spot” http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/blind_spot/
This movie illustrates America’s future without oil, water and other resources to keep this civilization functioning. It’s a brilliant educational movie! www.blindspotdoc.com
In Canada: Tim Murray,
Director Immigration Watch Canada www.immigrationwatch.org
Vice President Biodiversity First http://biodiversityfirst.googlepages.com/index.htm
Blog http://sinkinglifeboat.blogspot.com
Please visit Annie Leonard at www.storyofstuff.com for a compelling and highly interesting 20 minute video concerning our high consumption, highly wasteful and unsustainable society. She educates and provides avenues for you to make a difference.
Visit this web site by Chris Martenson: http://www.chrismartenson.com/environmental_data
In Colorado: visit www.soprisfoundation.org for information how you can network with like-minded folks to create a more sustainable future for Colorado and other states.
View CNN’s “Planet in Peril” with Anderson Cooper and Lisa Ling:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/planet.in.peril/
Ghost of Thomas Paine—compelling video of common sense
http://www.lawatchdog.com/index.html#anchor_2296
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: D.C.: (202)224-2854 comment@whitehouse.gov
Books to read: “The Long Emergency” by James Howard Kunstler
“Peak Everything” by Richard Heinberg
“Too Many People” by Lindsey Grant
Become a member of “Frosty’s Press Agent Corps” whereby you volunteer a few hours to send out emails to top TV and radio hosts to offer top speakers on America’s overpopulation crisis driven by unending immigration. Email frostyw@juno.com and receive two informational letters showing you exactly what to do.
Roy Beck's "IMMIGRATION BY THE NUMBERS" is the single best educational appreciation of America's future if we allow ourselves to add another 100 million people. Just click on this site for the most sobering experience of your children's future.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&q=roy+beck&hl=en
Roy Beck gives a graphic presentation of our fate if we continue to allow legal and illegal immigration to swamp this country. If you have children, you will be particular unnerved at their fate. I know Roy Beck personally and his integrity and knowledge stand at the top. Pass this web site 14 minute video far and wide across America to educate everyone you know. We either stop this human tsunami or the future of this country will be much like Rome's. We must, as a nation and a civilization, move to secure our country from this massive, unrelenting population overload from a line that never ends. This will be the most compelling 14 minute video of your life.
Once you see it, go to my web site for action items www.frostywooldridge.com and join www.numbersusa.com to become a weekly faxer of pre written letters and join the phone calling teams.
Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we listen to irresponsible media and thus ignore the blatant symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.
From: Frosty Wooldridge
This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
Go to: www.frostywooldridge.com and click on “Audio/Video” tab
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans.
Add comment September 25th, 2009
At one time, as a kid, I flipped a dime to the cashier to watch Vincent Price scare the heck out of me at a movie. I pulled out a nickel to pay for a Snickers candy bar. I bought a hamburger for 15 cents. I bought a school lunch for 35 cents. When I hit 16 with my ‘57 Chevy, I paid 29 cents a gallon of gas. I gobbled popcorn for a dime while I watched John Wayne in Rio Bravo.
On my office wall, I enjoy a picture titled “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” depicting a Hollywood Diner with Marilyn Monroe sitting on a bar stool, Elvis Presley sneering at me, James Dean scowling into his leather jacket and Marlon Brando standing in a muscle T-shirt—quite handsome I might add!
Those stars defined America in the 50s, 60s and 70s. At the time, we thought they and we would live forever. No doubt a candy bar could always be bought for a nickel. And, of course, gas would always remain at 29 cents a gallon!
Continue Reading Add comment September 22nd, 2009
While those 20 million enjoy employment, housing, welfare, food and medical care on U.S. taxpayer dollars, 15 million Americans cannot find a job. An astounding 32.2 million Americans subsist on food stamps. Our working poor and minorities languish in the streets and 13 million American children live below the poverty level.
Continue Reading Add comment September 15th, 2009
By Frosty Wooldridge
This past weekend, an estimated 200,000 Americans marched on Washington, DC to express their anger, frustration and outright rejection of President Barack Obama’s health care plan.
Signs read, “No Acorn, No Czars, No cap and trade, No Obama” ; “Obama lied, Freedom Died” ; “Silence is consent, can you hear us now?” ; “I don’t belong to the Party of No, I belong to the Party of Hell No!” ; “Madam Speaker, Kiss Our Astroturf!” ; “The only thing we have to fear is Obama himself!” ; “Proud member of the angry mob and I vote!” ; “Obama, liar, liar country on fire!” ; “Your wallet, the only place democrats are willing to drill!”
President Lyndon Baines Johnson lied about the “Gulf of Tonkin” incident. The ensuing Vietnam War killed millions and cost billions of dollars. President George W. Bush lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction. His war continues at a cost of billions and countless lives. This week, President Barack Obama lied about his controversial health care plan. He said it would not be available to illegal aliens. If his bill passes, 20 million illegal aliens along with their children will tap into our health care system—causing untold costs and ultimate breakdown.
When you tell the truth, you never have to cover your behind. When you tell a lie, it will bite you in the rear-end at some point.
When Obama spoke the lie, he knew that any verification of ID had been deleted out of the bill. His fellow Democrats killed the amendment that would have required authentication of citizenship.
As Obama uttered the lie, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) could not stand it any longer. He shouted from the seats, “You lie!” He spoke for Americans that don’t appreciate the ‘lie’ Congress foists upon all citizen taxpayers. The truth: Congress made sure that no ID verification would allow any unlawful immigrant to utilize full, free healthcare without having paid a dime into it.
“Thank goodness Joe had the courage to call the President out on it!” said former congressman Tom Tancredo. “Illegal immigrants are definitely getting health insurance under the President's plan. There is no question about it! Joe and other Republicans tried to get the Democrats to agree to an amendment to the health care bill which would have specifically required the government to verify the legal status of anyone receiving benefits under the plan and Democrats voted "NO" and killed it!”
CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf wrote, "Once the Democratic health care proposal is fully implemented, the number of people who are uninsured would decline to about 36 million or 37 million...roughly a third of those receiving coverage would be unauthorized immigrants."
Additionally, within 26 years, on our current immigration path, an added 70 million immigrants will call the United States home. Once here, they may tap into our health care system without restrictions. At the same time, they lack education, language and skills to pay taxes to support the system. It can only break down for all Americans and immigrants alike.
“But the lies last night weren't limited to Obama’s statement that illegal aliens won't get coverage,” said Tancredo. “The President also claimed he will provide health insurance free of charge to those who can't afford it, the care will not be rationed, premiums won't go up, health risk factors won't be considered, no one will be excluded, taxes will not increase, and that none of this will cost the taxpayers a dime! Imagine: a huge federal entitlement for free!”
At some point, President Obama must contend with 20 million unlawful immigrants by enforcing laws against employers that allow illegals to remain within this country. He cannot hide from the facts; he cannot avoid the damage and costs at $346 billion annually; he cannot duck his responsibility to represent the legal citizens of this country; he cannot deny that 15 million Americans suffer unemployment and that 35 million U.S. citizens now subsist on food stamps.
Last Thursday night, Katie Couric announced that a whopping 13.4 percent of American families live in poverty. Last count, 35 million Americans subsist on food stamps. Over 15 million Americans cannot find work. In excess of 13 million American children live below the poverty level.
However, 20 million unlawful immigrants remain within America utilizing our health care, our housing, our schools, our hospitals and our prisons—at an astronomical cost to taxpayers of $346 billion annually. (Source: www.thesocialcontract.com , economist Edwin Rubenstein report, winter 2008.)
It’s time for Obama to cowboy-up. Send unlawful immigrants home by enforcing our laws. Simple, easy and smart! American health care for Americans! What a concept!
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To take action: First and foremost, join www.numbersusa.com and become one of nearly a million Americans making impact with pre-written faxes and phone calls to change immigration policies toward a stable future. Bi-partisan and highly effective!
Second, join www.thesocialcontract.com for up to date information via the Social Contract Quarterly. Exceptional publication to keep you informed.
www.fairus.org ; www.vdare.com ; www.alipac.us ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.cairco.org ; www.limitstogrowth.com ; www.capsweb.org ; www.populationmedia.org ; www.worldpopulationbalance.org ; LimitsToGrowth.org ; www.postcarbon.org
America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans by Frosty Wooldridge. This book covers all the ramifications of adding 100 million people to the USA in the next 26 years by 2035.
Visit this site for a rendition of Colorado Governor Lamm’s speech: “How to Destroy America”
http://usawakeup.org/HowToDestroyAmerica.htm
Must see DVD: “Blind Spot”
This movie illustrates America’s future without oil, water and other resources to keep this civilization functioning. It’s a brilliant educational movie!
In Canada: Tim Murray,
Director Immigration Watch Canada www.immigrationwatch.org
Vice President Biodiversity First http://biodiversityfirst.googlepages.com/index.htm
Blog http://sinkinglifeboat.blogspot.com
Watch the DVD movie: “Blind Spot”—Exceptional movie with top scientists candidly discussion what we face as a civilization if we continue on our hyper-population growth path. www.blindspotdoc.com
Please visit Annie Leonard at www.storyofstuff.com for a compelling and highly interesting 20 minute video concerning our high consumption, highly wasteful and unsustainable society. She educates and provides avenues for you to make a difference.
Visit this web site by Chris Martenson: http://www.chrismartenson.com/environmental_data
In Colorado: visit www.soprisfoundation.org for information how you can network with like-minded folks to create a more sustainable future for Colorado and other states.
View CNN’s “Planet in Peril” with Anderson Cooper and Lisa Ling:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/planet.in.peril/
Ghost of Thomas Paine—compelling video of common sense
http://www.lawatchdog.com/index.html#anchor_2296
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: D.C.: (202)224-2854 comment@whitehouse.gov
Books to read: “The Long Emergency” by James Howard Kunstler
“Peak Everything” by Richard Heinberg
“Too Many People” by Lindsey Grant
“Plan B 3.0” by Lester Brown
Become a member of “Frosty’s Press Agent Corps” whereby you volunteer a few hours to send out emails to top TV and radio hosts to offer top speakers on America’s overpopulation crisis driven by unending immigration. Email frostyw@juno.com and receive two informational letters showing you exactly what to do.
Roy Beck's "IMMIGRATION BY THE NUMBERS" is the single best educational appreciation of America's future if we allow ourselves to add another 100 million people. Just click on this site for the most sobering experience of your children's future.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&q=roy+beck&hl=en
Roy Beck gives a graphic presentation of our fate if we continue to allow legal and illegal immigration to swamp this country. If you have children, you will be particular unnerved at their fate. I know Roy Beck personally and his integrity and knowledge stand at the top. Pass this web site 14 minute video far and wide across America to educate everyone you know. We either stop this human tsunami or the future of this country will be much like Rome's. We must, as a nation and a civilization, move to secure our country from this massive, unrelenting population overload from a line that never ends. This will be the most compelling 14 minute video of your life.
Once you see it, go to my web site for action items www.frostywooldridge.com and join www.numbersusa.com to become a weekly faxer of pre written letters and join the phone calling teams.
Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we listen to irresponsible media and thus ignore the blatant symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.
From: Frosty Wooldridge
This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
Go to: www.frostywooldridge.com and click on “Audio/Video” tab
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. 1 888 280 7715 www.amazon.com ; www.barnesandnoble.com
9 comments September 14th, 2009
By Frosty Wooldridge
Part 2: Becoming a nation of strangers
In the American media, you will not hear a peep about the failures of multiculturalism. It’s an untouchable ‘sacred cow’. While the elites support and defend it, they step away from living with it. Gated communities, private schools and country clubs across America represent the flight from multiculturalism.
In Boulder, Colorado, where I formerly taught school—rich, white, liberal mothers, driving $50,000 SUVs, sported bumper stickers that read, “Celebrate Diversity”. However, they drove their kids to all white schools away from legal immigrant enclaves that overwhelmed area schools. The immigrant children represented dozens of countries and languages. Classrooms fell into educational chaos.
In Denver, Colorado, over 85 languages created educational failure and kids from dozens of countries created a 67 percent dropout/flunkout rates among students. (Rocky Mountain News, May 14, 2005, “What Happened?”) Rich parents drive their kids to outlying schools to ensure a positive educational experience.
On TV, often times, we see black/white detective teams fighting crime. They place a black detective with a white detective so whites will watch the white and blacks will watch the black dude. But, as you noted last summer, white firemen sued the federal government for reverse discrimination against whites.
From the inception of the United States, race created horrific imbalances. Slavery created the American Civil War. Racism created Watts, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, Rodney King, Selma, Alabama, George Wallace, Al Sharpton, Rosa Parks and dozens of other crises in American history.
Today, America must confront new racial dilemmas as to massive immigration by Mexicans, Muslims, Somalians, Pakistanis, Iraqis, Hmongs and a hundred other races. Not only that, all of us must contend with each other’s Grand Canyon-wide cultural differences—which prove daunting, i.e., Muslim honor killings of wives, stoning of women for adultery, beheadings, forced marriages, female genital mutilations, Mexican horse tripping, cock fighting, dog fighting, African animal sacrifice and more from third world immigrants.
We find ourselves in the middle of a “human chemistry experiment” with no understanding of when the ingredients that we threw haphazardly into the beaker will explode or disintegrate.
We find children of immigrants so confused as to their identities that they take guns and blow people up as per example of the Korean immigrant kid at Virginia Tech who rampaged the campus with a killing spree. Seung-hui Cho killed 32 and wounded 25. He said on his video, “You forced me into a corner.” Not Korean, not American, he lacked identity, thus meaning, thus balance. Everybody became his enemy.
You can site thousands of cases of cultural incompatibilities that led to thousands of deaths. Mexicans by the thousands drive drunk and kill thousands of Americans. Rapes, a natural occurrence in Mexican culture, create horrific consequences in America. Female genital mutilation, a barbaric Muslim practice finds ongoing practice in America with eight million Muslims. You can take immigrants out of the third world but you cannot take the third world out of them.
In New York, February 16, 2009, FOX News, Joshua Rhett Miller reported, “The estranged wife of a Muslim television executive feared for her life after filing for divorce last month from her abusive husband,” her attorney said — and was found beheaded Thursday in his upstate New York television studio. Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, was found dead on Thursday at the offices of Bridges TV in Orchard Park, N.Y., near Buffalo. Her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, has reportedly been charged with second-degree murder. “She was very much aware of the potential ramification of her filing for divorce might have," said attorney Elizabeth DiPirro, whose law firm represented Aasiya Hassan in the divorce proceeding. "But she wanted to proceed despite the potential for it to erupt."
Under Sharia Law in the Middle East, such an ‘honor killing’ remains accepted in Islamic society. Ann Curry on NBC hosted a news piece, “Honor Killings in America.” She reported on the astounding rise of honor killings in America by Muslim immigrants.
AMERICA BECOMING A NATION OF STRANGERS
As we multiculturalize, we fragment, fracture and disintegrate our language and culture. While successful for 233 years, we find our civilization rupturing.
A reader sent me a thesis by an unknown writer. You may agree or not agree, but it may be worth your contemplation:
“The controlled press, and most of the politicians and religious leaders in our country always repeat the mantra "racial diversity is our strength", but they never explain why diversity is our strength. What does racial diversity do to a country to make it stronger? Does it lower the crime rate? Does it bring people closer together? Does it decrease racial hatred? Does it improve our roads, our educational system, or our health care system?
“Racial diversity does none of those things, in fact, it does just
the opposite. But, more than that, racial diversity is a crime against all
the races that are forced to live under this modern day neo-religion. To be
a racially diverse nation, every race must give up certain rights and
suppress certain biological instincts in order to get along, or be 'tolerant' of other behaviors, languages, and customs. We must give up our sense of people-hood, community, and commonality, not to mention our
Constitutional right of freedom of association.
“When a man is forced by law, or a politically correct orthodoxy to suppress
his natural instincts to feel part of something larger than himself; his
tribe, nation, or race, he loses his sense of purpose in life. Instead of
having an identity and commonality with his countrymen, he is reduced to
being just an individual, and at some level he knows that when he dies,
nothing will be left of him, for he had no connection to his people.
“While we as individuals do not live forever, our efforts in life that
contribute to our society and culture, and the genes that make us who we
are, are our only links to a future beyond or own lifetime, and possibly to
eternity. But without a nation of racially similar people to be a part of,
what links are there? We have been robbed of our birthright; our right to
have a common bond with our own people.
“Racial diversity in the world is a wondrous thing, but when practiced within
a nation it suppresses man's instinctive urge to be a part of his own people,
and through that, his connection to eternity, and that is a crime against
humanity.
“Another crime is the fact that those who support forced or coerced racial
diversity are knowingly or unknowingly supporting racial genocide. When
different races occupy the same land, a small percentage of each race will
breed out of their group, and over time a complete mixing will be achieved,
and there will be no recognition of the once separate races that lived
there. The racial diversity that this regime and its useful idiots are
supporting is leading to the exact opposite of what they say they want -
racial diversity. Racial mixing leads to racial extinction, not diversity,
and eventually all that will be left is one mongrelized, hybrid type of man.
There is nothing noble or beautiful about this, it really is a crime against
humanity.”
Thus, everyone loses his or her cultural identity, racial identity, and sense of place in this civilization. Worse, we lose what made this civilization so extraordinary for personal achievement and freedom: our American identity. We lose our language. In the end, we become a nation of strangers.
If we continue on our present path, and we add the projected 70 million immigrants from 150 other countries by 2035, I suspect America will not survive environmentally, linguistically, economically or culturally.
As for me, I am old-fashioned. I am an American with no hyphens attached!
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After 40 years of relentless immigration from the third world’s poorest nations, and an additional 100 million people added to America from all over the planet: White, Black, Hispanic and Muslims now battle for positioning within the United States. The fantasy of a human bouquet of civility degrades into harsher realities of a fast-Balkanizing civilization. In reality, each ethnic group finds comfort, solace and identity, not in America, but within its own tribe and language....
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