PROFOUND DISCONNECT OF US CONGRESS REPS FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS

By Frosty Wooldridge

Our U.S. Congress causes most Americans of both parties intellectual trauma, emotional fits and mental anguish. Every week, 545 individuals misdirect, obfuscate, cloud, suppress, deny or avoid dealing with serious issues facing our civilization. Fact: they don’t solve much, but they do perpetuate most of our problems.

You might read a compelling piece, “545 PEOPLE” by Charlie Reese that explains their profound disconnect with America, with her values, with her people and with the principles of the U.S. Constitution.

Reese said, “Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, why do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, why do we have inflation and high taxes?”

Since 80 percent of the American people stand against both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, why have those wars continued for nine years at a cost of $1 trillion and incredible loss of life and misery? It’s beyond the scope of rational thinking or logical reasoning. Are those 545 crazy or are we crazy to keep electing them?


Everything going wrong in America today stems from their decisions in Washington DC. Yet, like lemmings, we continue voting them back into office.

Problems they have perpetuated:

1. 20 million Americans cannot secure a job. (Source: Brian Williams, NBC)
2. 35 million Americans subsist on food stamps. (Source: “One in eight Americans living on food stamps: 35 million”, Huffington Post, 11/29/09)
3. 13.4 million American children live in poverty. (Source: Katie Couric, NBC)
4. 20 million illegal aliens work and live in America in violation of U.S. laws. (Source: www.cis.org; www.numbersusa.com)
5. $12 trillion national debt.
6. Influx of 2.4 million legal and illegal immigrants annually. (Source: www.fairus.org ; www.thesocialcontract.com)
7. Annual cost of immigrants to U.S. taxpayers: $346 billion. (Source: Edwin Rubenstein Report, www.thesocialcontract.com)
8. Millions suffering home foreclosures. (Source: CNN)
9. $700 billion annual trade deficit. (Source: Department of Commerce)
10. Educational breakdown across the country with as high as 76 percent dropout rates in major cities like Detroit, Michigan. (Source: Time Magazine, “Tragedy of Detroit”)

The list grows; it doesn’t diminish. It expands; it gets worse. The problems mount; but the Congress fiddles.

LET US UNDERSTAND AN EXAMPLE OF AN INDIVIDUAL CONGRESSMAN

You may think that writing or calling your Congress critter would bring solutions, rational decision making, and use of common sense for the common good. You would be wrong. You will receive a form letter.

I wrote my Congressman Mike Coffman and two senators Mike Bennet and Mark Udall in Colorado.

I mentioned that we needed to change the annual 1.2 million legal immigrants down to 100,000 a year, which worked from 1924 to 1964, in order to allow our civilization to become stable and sustainable. We do not need to add another 100 million people to this country within 25 years, most of it via immigration. Straight forward common sense!

Coffman wrote back, “I do not believe it is in the best interests to limit legal immigration to 100,000 individuals annually.”

“According to a study from the nation's largest food bank operator, the number of Americans in need of food aid has jumped 46 percent in three years, including a 50 percent jump in the number of children needing food assistance, and a 64 percent increase in hunger in senior citizens' homes,” said Daniel Tencer, journalist at www.rawstory.com “The study, Hunger in America 2010, found that 37 million people, or roughly one in eight US residents, received food aid in 2009. That's a 46 percent jump from a similar survey carried out in 2006.”


Coffman expressed the same thinking as the Pope when he condemned Galileo for observing that the earth revolved around the sun instead of vice versa. Coffman showed (s) a complete lack of understanding that we’re already drowning in too many immigrants with 20 million illegals while adding 1.2 million legal immigrants annually—yet 20 million American citizens cannot obtain a job and another 35 million live on food stamps.

Then, we face horrendous environmental problems with carbon footprint, ecological footprint, water shortages, energy crisis and more. That shows a HUGE disconnect from what our citizens face.

Next, I said that we need to stop giving away H-1B and H—2B visas because over 1.1 million IT workers in the USA suffer unemployment from the insourcing, offshoring and outsourcing of American jobs.

He wrote back, “While this may lessen the amount of people in our country, it will also place America at a competitive disadvantage moving forward. For that reason, I do not support eliminating the H-1B and H 2-B Visas.”

Is he nuts or what? We suffer 1.1 million unemployed Americans IT workers BECAUSE of those H-1B and H-2B visas!

He gave a bunch of other inane excuses to move on several other points, as did Udall and Bennet. I asked all of them to support International Family Planning which provides birth control for women of the world so they might bring down birthrates to two kids instead of having 10 kids that suffer starvation as do over 10 million children that die of starvation annually around the globe. Obviously, that’s one of the reasons they flee to the USA for a “better life.” (Source: World Health Organization)

He wrote back, “I oppose funding organizations which use taxpayer dollars to perform or fund abortions.” Understand this Mr. Coffman: over 46 million desperate women choose abortions annually, as a secondary form of birth control, because they weren’t given birth control through family planning organizations in the first place. And, for those who didn’t use birth control, a whopping 18 million humans die annually from starvation in overloaded countries. No thanks to the Catholic and Islamic churches!

If Coffman, Udall and Bennet along with the other 532 people walking around Washington DC would get off their fat elitist/narcissistic butts, and take action for the good of our citizens—we would see results instead of worsening drama across our country and the world.

We really need to vote out most of the incumbent members of Congress and inject new blood, new thinking and workable solutions. The current crop proves a rat’s nest of incompetence, corruption and neglect of our citizens.

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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 He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies available: 1 888 280 7715
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.
Growth Busters with Dave Gardner: Terrific 30 minute film. Visit: WEBSITE & TRAILER: www.growthbusters.com ; PREVIEW & DISCUSSION WITH FILMMAKER: http://vimeo.com/6648857 ; FACEBOOK FAN PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/Growthbusters ;
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/growthbusters



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. Copies available: 1 888 280 7715

CONGRESS CUTTING AMERICANS’ FINANCIAL THROATS: IMMIGRATION AND OUTSOURCING JOBS

By Frosty Wooldridge

Look across the American unemployment landscape to see 15 to 20 million Americans without jobs, without hope and without a way out. Witness 35 million Americans subsisting on food stamps. Millions of U.S. teenagers cannot ‘buy’ a job. Watch accelerating home foreclosures for millions of Americans.

Then watch what the U.S. Congress continues: outsourcing of millions of jobs, insourcing of millions of jobs and offshoring of manufacturing jobs. On top of that, as we outsource millions of jobs to Asia, we import 100,000 immigrants legally every 30 days, month in and month out, year in and year out. Congress engages hundreds of thousands of H-1B and H-2B visas for foreign labor annually with no let up in sight!

Does any of that make sense to any American with an ounce of common sense?

In a column by economist Mike Folkerth, more intelligent than any you will read from Time or Newsweek Magazine, he wrote, “But, the Chinese Can Make it Cheaper; Well Duh!” You will find him at www.kingofsimple.com. I spoke with him and obtained permission to interview:

“There are certain blatant issues that seem so apparent that we often think that everyone must be fully aware of their dastardly consequences,” said Folkerth. “But on the other hand, I consider that perhaps, Alfred North Whitehead was correct when he said, “It takes an unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”

“Our trade deficit for November was once more on the increase, a hefty 10% increase at that. In plain English, this means that we are buying considerably more of the items that we use in our daily lives from foreign nations, than foreign nations buy from us. We crossed that line of imbalance in 1970 and our government has been working on the problem every since. Hey, these things take time.

How about Americans making products for America?

“On that subject, I was just listening to a financial expert say that American exports need to pick up,” said Folkerth. “America needs to make more of what the world wants to buy.”

“I know that my solution is ridiculous, but how about this; why not have America make more of what Americans buy every day? Wow, what a breakthrough in international trade balance and I did it with 3rd grade math.

“Think about what I just said. We have purposely shipped our critical core industry to China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and a hundred other places that I’m not sure I can spell, in order that these foreign nations can then send it back for the unemployed Americans to purchase. Am I missing something here?

“And now the financial experts say that we need to increase our exports so that we can pay for our imports? “HELLO, earth to Americans, all we have to do is export to ourselves.” As in, out of the American factory and on to the American shelves. It’s an ancient tradition that was used to build America. It’s called a full circle economy.

“Isn’t it amazing what propaganda and indoctrination can do? News media to the average American citizen, “We live in a global economy you know?” American citizen to news media, “Uhhhhhh…okay.” American citizen to the next person that they meet, “We live in a global economy you know?” Next person responding, “Uhhhhhh…sure, I knew that.”

“All of this leads up to the complex burning question of, why? Why do we import more than we export when we have 27,000,000 unemployed/under employed Americans that want to go to work? Why not make these goods ourselves? I’m told that such activity creates jobs. I’ll do some research on that rumor and get back with you. Okay, I’m done and it works.

“Why would the greatest industrialized nation in the world allow their population to stagger to their unemployed knees while having a communist foreign nation provide us with our basic manufactured goods?”

The big question remains “Why?”

“Why import products from half way around the world that we have historically produced for ourselves when millions of our fellow Americans are unemployed?” said Folkerth. “Why allow such institutions as The-China-Connection-Wal-Mart to exist when America is on the brink of collapse?

“So am I an isolationist? I’d say yes, and proud of it; charity and employment start at home. I’m also a realist and I can do the revealing math in my sleep.

“There is no such thing as the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy. There is no such thing as a service and information economy. There is no requirement to globalize and this is NOT a global economy outside the devious minds of government and big business.

“Through effective propaganda, we’ve been led to believe that Americans are bad people who charge too much for their labor. That’s right; the unions are at fault, not the high paid management that agreed to the union contacts.

“We’ve been conditioned to believe that we can’t make the products that we use daily, because the Communist Chinese can make them cheaper! Well duh, why do we think the Communist Chinese live in abject poverty? You don’t suppose there is a connection do you?

“If it takes higher cost goods to support our way of life, so be it. Pay more, get higher quality, and buy less. The alternative is to sink to the level of those who are currently taking our jobs and our way of life; at the behest of our government and big business leaders I might add.

“The immediate solution to unemployment is simple; we need to revert back to supporting ourselves and our local communities rather than supporting multi-national corporations whose total goal is profit at any cost. That cost was Middle America.

“But then, that’s not what we are doing at all; instead, we also import 1.2 MILLION foreign workers annually to compete with the unemployed Americans. Truth is far stranger than fiction.”

After talking with Folkerth, my burning question remains this: why do we suffer a $700 billion trade deficit annually, with 15 to 20 million unemployed Americans while and 35 million Americans on food stamps? Why do our Congress critters think cheap Chinese products remain a ‘good thing’ with so many of our citizens unable to buy them because they do not enjoy jobs?

Mark Twain said, “Suppose you were an idiot; and suppose you were a member of Congress…ah, but I repeat myself.”

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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 He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies available: 1 888 280 7715