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First Response: The tragic secret behind the SS Crises and the Undocumented |
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First Response
The tragic secret behind the Crises in Social Security and Undocumented Workers
By Don Williams
Central to our national angst are the issues of over 10 million illegals and our aging population facing a time-bomb of bankrupt Social Security and Medicare systems. Apparently, the previous generations misjudged the workforce needed to keep us solvent. Rather than more workers we will have less and jobs go begging apart from a huge undocumented workforce crossing our borders. We can wring our hands, demand that the flood of illegals be stopped and send the National Guard to the rescue. Right now Congress is locked conflict, trying to compromise very different solutions between the House which simply wants to close the flow and send the undocumented home and the Senate which offers a road to amnesty and citizenship. Apparently the conservative voters want no part of keeping illegals here and opening the door to legalization. The simple fact, however, is that the undocumented would not be here without jobs and the good citizens who hire them. Dry up the jobs and dry up illegal immigration. That is that.
But what is the core issue behind an aging population that one day will not be able to live on Social Security (when less and less is paid into it from a diminishing workforce) and millions of undocumented workers taking jobs that apparently we do not want to fill or are unable to fill? The answer, my friend is “blowing in the wind.” It will never be heard from the State House or the Media. The answer is the legalization of abortion in 1972: Roe vs. Wade.
Since abortion was legalized, over 46 million babies have had their lives ended. Rather than a booming population, we have reduced our workforce by eliminating millions of unborn. If we have averaged one and a half million abortions per year (a conservative figure), then from 1972 to 1982 we have lost 15 million lives. If they had lived, we would have 15 million young adults from the ages of 24 to 34 entering the work-force. They and the millions after them would take most of the jobs now offered to illegals. They would rise up the economic ladder and pay into Social Security. They would secure retirement for the elderly. But we have aborted not only this vast workforce, we have aborted our future.
In the May 29 (2006) issue of Newsweek there is an article by Robert J. Samuelson: “The End of Motherhood?” In it he charts the decline of fertility in Europe and Japan. For example, in Germany the population will shrink from 82.4 million in 2005 to 73.6 million in 2050. In Japan it will go from 127.4 million to 99.9 million. Why the decline? Are women less fertile? No. But “motherhood is going out of style.” Samuelson writes, “This is a hugely significant development, even if we don’t fully understand the causes – experts didn't predict it – or [its] consequences. One way or another, the side effects will be massive for economics, politics and people’s well being.” It is the United States which is the exception to this decline. We still have high fertility rates, “roughly at the replacement rate, 2.1 children per woman.” Why is the U.S. replacing its population (despite abortion) while other industrialized nations are not? Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute sees three differences between the U.S. and other industrialized nations: “greater optimism, greater patriotism, and stronger religious values.” All of this simply translates into one fact: America is still dominated by Christian values and has a substantial core of faithful believers. They have hope for the future (optimism), they are committed to their nation (patriotism) and they oppose abortion as the taking of God-given life (stronger religious values). But the hand-writing is on the wall. By legalizing abortion, we are cutting off much of our own future (in favor of the right of a woman to her own body, so called “pro-choice”). By legalizing abortion we are creating vast numbers of jobs now filled by undocumented workers. When will we get it? When we violate the laws of God (“You shall not murder”), we pay unintended and unimaginable consequences. We are opting for death rather than for life. We are on the side of Satan rather than God (“A murderer from the beginning,” John 8:44). We are mortgaging our future for the passion of the moment or the inconvenience of bringing another life into the world. God is not mocked. What we sow we reap. (Galatians 6:7) And it is a bad harvest.
You will never hear a politician or a media personality get to the heart of the issue. The truth is so unsafe and unpolitical. But only the truth will set us free. We must repent and stand with compassion for the unborn and mercy for the men and women who have taken the lies of the Enemy as the truth and forfeited their future. There is still time to reverse the tide and bring justice and righteousness to our nation. Blessing and long life will result. There is no alternative.
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