Record Unemployment-But Still No Talk Of An Immigration Moratorium!
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Peter Brimelow writes: Christmas Appeal off to usual slow start-VDARE.COM MUST HAVE YOUR HELP before our advisers allow me to start posting again.L

By Peter Brimelow, Editor, VDARE.COM

This is it-our Christmas Appeal, the time of year when VDARE.COM raises most of its funds, through the generosity of you, our loyal readers.

It's always stressful. We have no financial reserves and no margin for disappointment.

Still, I couldn't ask for a better example of why VDARE.COM is essential than the so-called Jobs summits that occur this week.

·         President Obama's Job Summit will be held this Thursday, December 3

Congressional Democrats are reportedly working on another multi-billion dollar stimulus package (of course!)

·         Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, is trying to upstage the Democrats by holding his own summits, on Wednesday, December 2, and on Thursday.

These Republican summits will reportedly emphasize tax cuts (of course!).

There is no doubt that America's jobs crisis is very serious. Unemployment had reached 10.2% at last report in early November, its highest level for some 26 years. The next unemployment report, to be released on Friday December 4, seems certain to show more job losses-for the 23^rd consecutive month. And unemployment is expected to remain high for a long time to come.

According to the Los Angeles Times:

"Polling shows that the healthcare overhaul is not as important to Americans as an economic recovery that yields jobs. With a midterm election next year, Democrats in control of the White House and Congress can't afford to look out of touch.

"A Senate Democratic aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, 'Democrats have to address the No. 1 concern of their constituents -- and that is, by a long shot, jobs.'"

Yet, amazingly, neither Democrat nor Republican summits will address an obvious answer to the jobs crisis: an immigration moratorium.

Incredibly, despite the recession, about 125,000 legal immigrants a month are still entering the U.S.

And, with some 15 million Americans unemployed, there are still an estimated 8 million illegal aliens holding jobs here.

Democrats and Republicans have been bickering about whether the Obama Administration's stimulus package really created the claimed 650,000 jobs.

But during the same period, twice that number of legal immigrants and "temporary" workers entered the U.S.-easily swamping even the most optimistic estimate of jobs created.

Neither of the major political parties has been talking about the immigration answer to the unemployment crisis. And, as far as I can see, there have been no (0) discussions of an immigration moratorium in the Main Stream Media, liberal or "conservative".

Why not?

Part of the answer, of course, is the entrenched special interests that have resisted patriotic immigration reform all along-the ethnic pressure groups, the cheap labor lobby, etc. etc. They won't allow any discussion of an immigration cut, even when it would help desperate unemployed Americans, because they fear a precedent would be set, and that their own dirty deals would eventually come under patriotic scrutiny.

But why don't MSM journalists at least ask about an immigration moratorium as a way of reducing unemployment?

My own theory (which will probably sound weird to anyone who hasn't spent the years in the MSM that I have!) is that it goes beyond bias. Journalists don't ask about an immigration moratorium because nobody else has asked about it. The idea would just never occur to them on their own.

Call it intellectual inertia-if you want to be kind.

VDARE.COM exists to challenge those special interests-and to shake up that intellectual inertia. But we can only do it with your help.

Our National Data columnist, Edwin S. Rubenstein, has already analyzed the possible effects of an immigration moratorium on the unemployment rate.

He calculates that even a one-year moratorium would reduce the unemployment rate by about half a percentage point. And if a moratorium had been in place since 1998, the labor market would have tightened so much that current unemployment rate, even in this disastrous recession, would now still be less than 5%.

In addition, of course, Ed has documented the negative impact of immigration on the income of Americans, and its role in increasing the U.S. poverty rate.

And he has provided as far as I can see is the only (!!!) systematic effort to estimate the displacement of native-born American workers by immigrants-constructing what we call VDARE.COM American Worker Displacement Index, or "VDAWDI" for short. (It has to be an estimate because the federal government, as usual, has neglected to monitor this vital but politically sensitive area.)

What Ed has been able to show is that immigrants got the lion's share of the job growth in the last decade-and they've held on to those gains in this recession.

You should be hearing about the immigrant-American job trade-off every month, when the unemployment data is released. The government should be tracking and reporting it. And the Main Stream media should be discussing it.

But right now, the only way you can follow the issue is on VDARE.COM.

If Americans workers realized what is being done to them, they would demand an immigration moratorium.

But they don't realize it-and we can get the word out only with your donations.

For that matter, why is the economy in this horrible mess anyway?

Of course, the Crash of 2008 was a "perfect storm"-it needed several elements to come together.

But a key element was the loosening of mortgage lending standards, imposed on the industry by a bipartisan consensus of politicians, in order to subsidize/ bribe minorities and immigrants, disproportionately uncreditworthy.

This loosening inflated the housing bubble-and precipitated the housing bust, as the uncreditworthy borrowers turned out to be, well, uncreditworthy.

As we've said bluntly at VDARE.COM, the U.S. has been plunged into a "Diversity Recession"-driven by a "Minority Mortgage Meltdown".

Our Steve Sailer has documented this phenomenon in several full-length articles over more than a year.

Most recently, he described how the Federal Reserve is trying to evade his Freedom of Information Act request for data that would reveal what proportion of defaulted mortgage dollars were accounted for by minorities.

The government publishes data on the share of mortgages that go to minorities, but not whether they pay the money back. The data exists, but the Fed economists who have it won't share.

Of course, this data would show exactly how disastrous this specialized form of anti-white Affirmative Action has been. That's why the Establishment doesn't want us to know.

But there's more: at VDARE.COM, we highlighted this problem way back in March 2004-in Thomas Allen's eerily prescient article The Mortgage Monsters Meet The Immigration Invasion. They Like Each Other, about the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ("Freddie Mac") and their irresponsible pursuit of immigrant, often illegal alien, clients.

Allen concluded: "We've known for some time that current mass immigration is politically unstable. Now it turns out that it's financially unstable as well."

Remember, that was in 2004!

The moral of this story, to use an old Wall Street adage: things that can't go on, don't. Washington's manipulation of the mortgage market was doomed to fail and it did, injuring many innocent people in the process.

Its manipulation of immigration policy will fail too.

But you need non-bipartisan, non-consensus sources like VDARE.COM to keep reminding you of reality.

And we can keep on doing that ONLY if you supply us with the resources to do so.

So I'm starting our annual year-end VDARE.COM fundraising drive now.

We have not had a fund-raising drive since July.

Our advisers are mad at me, again. They think I should remind you every few weeks that it's only your generosity and patriotism that keeps VDARE.COM going.

(Many thanks, by the way, to those of you who do donate even without my prodding, especially those who donate monthly-for details of how to do this, scroll to the end. It's not just the money. It really raises our morale when we see your donations come in.)

I know our advisors are right. But asking for money gives me the creeps.

And, frankly, management (me) is pretty stretched pretty thin at VDARE.COM. If I spend time organizing an appeal, I can't spend it editing.

And we post every day at VDARE.COM, an enormous amount of material. There are just so many targets!

What we post is prepared to the highest professional standards-I've not been working in the Mainstream Media for 30 years for nothing. And we use hyperlinks, not the least of the advantages of this wonderful new medium, better than anyone else on the internet...at least, I think so. They help us document our case. Readers who are new to the cause of patriotic immigration reform find our hyperlinks particularly compelling. But the whole process is very labor-intensive.

Money is our secret weapon at VDARE.COM. Our fixed costs are very low, we operate entirely virtually. We don't have to pay printing and postage (thank goodness!).

What this means: essentially everything you give goes to pay writers and editors.

Our writers and editors are not paid as much as I would like. But they do get something. This ability to pay our writers is what has distinguished VDARE.COM from a host of excellent but evanescent blogs which have come and gone.

Writers will often write for love-because they passionately believe in our cause. But in the long run, they need to be able to justify the time spent, to their families and to themselves.

At VDARE.COM, we are in this for the long haul. We are building an institution. We need money to do that. We can only do it with your help.

To me as a professional journalist, the quantity and quality of non-professional writing on the immigration issue that comes in over the e-transom has been a revelation.

Many of these writers have full-time careers in other fields, some are students; I encourage these to write anonymously because of the very real reign of terror imposed by the curse of Political Correctness. Others are struggling, idealistic free-lancers; I shudder for them. All are patriots deprived of outlets because of the orthodoxy of the Mainstream Media.

Only YOU can make sure these patriotic voices continue to be heard.

We will send a free copy of Steve Sailer's America's Half-Blood Prince for every donation of $200.

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Please help us now. I, and all of us at VDARE.COM, and I believe future generations of Americans, will be profoundly grateful.

Peter Brimelow