Kira and Ulrich say: Give to VDARE.COM NOW! P-U-L-E-E-Z-E!

Peter Brimelow writes: We have to look at the checks that are snailing in, but we've think we made our $50,000 target. Our deepest thanks to our loyal readers. Scroll down to the bottom, past donate links, to enter site and read James Fulford's New Year column etc. etc.  Paypal donations received after midnight will be credited to the next fiscal year; checks dated prior to Jan 1 count against this year. Happy New Year!

Kira and Ulrich say:

Give to VDARE.COM NOW! P-U-L-E-E-Z-E!

Kira and Ulrich in 2009---and Ulrich and Kira in 2010. HE'S GROWING AND NEEDS FEEDING!

Peter Brimelow writes: I've been fired, or at least demoted, again. The VDARE Foundation's Executive Directrix, Crystal, who belongs to Kira, above, thinks my fundraising appeals are not appealing enough. AND ULRICH, ABOVE, IS GROWING FAST. So I'm handing over to her.

Executive Directrix Crystal writes:

Hi again!   Some of you may remember me from last year. I was the one who came on here wringing my hands and yelling that we had no money, and I couldn't make payroll.  (Remember me now?)

Well, obviously I'm back, which is good and bad. 

The good is that I wanted to say THANK YOU!  I, obviously, made payroll last year because of you! 

We had to make some very painful cuts. But, with your help, we made it through another year. And that is good.   You really helped me out of a tight situation and calmed my nerves enough to let me enjoy my Christmas.  

But, more importantly, you made it so we could bring the news the MSM is too afraid to report. 

Now, I have a New Year's Eve party to go to at my friend Sarah's house this Friday.  It should be a good time!  Her husband brews his own beer, so that's always tasty, and it's a very diverse crowd – there will be artists, state troopers, teachers, stay-at-home moms, engineers, computer guys and even a couple financial types there.  (Oh, and their really adorable white boxer will be there!)  So I will be with a crowd with people who wear anything from bathrobes to suits to work. (I personally find that highly amusing).

What I actually start to think about before a party like this is: What have I read of interest on VDARE.COM lately that I can use for small talk?

I know, some people talk weather. But I prefer immigration—what can I say, we work long hours here at the VDARE Foundation!

I'm thinking a big topic of conversation is likely to be the DREAM Act Amnesty.  Fortunately for me, I have VDARE.com to read up on it.  Thanks to our archives I can do a search and see that Bryanna Bevans first wrote about it back in 2005! 

Or there's Birthright Citizenship. It seems likely to be an issue in the new Congress. Howard Sutherland wrote about that way back in 2001. (!!!)

Or unemployment. An Establishment foundation recently guessed at immigration's impact—VDARE.com's Ed Rubenstein has been documenting it since 2004.

Of course, I also have Peter in the office to answer any questions—or at least he would answer them if he weren't always so busy editing. 

Which brings me to the bad.

We weren't able to replace the Establishment foundation grant that we lost last Spring.  (See here for details).

Excuse me while I go off on a small tangent here…

It doesn't seem FAIR to me that some of the larger patriotic immigration reform groups out there don't have to struggle the way we do.  I just don't understand why they are able to bring in so much money.  For instance, there is a group out there that gets over $6 MILLION a year in grants, and $1.5 MILLION dollars in individual contributions. Actually, maybe I do understand why—it's spending $600,000 a year on fundraising.  That is MORE than our entire yearly budget! 

Okay, I feel a little better getting that off my chest.

Back to the bad. 

We depend, more than ever, on our readers.

You'll remember last year I told you that only about 1 per cent of our readers had donated anything at all to us.  Well, that hasn't changed much.  We're up to about 1.25 percent of you having donated anything at all. Yes, that is an increase of 25%—but there are SO many of you that have not given anything.  Ever! 

Our website is looked at more than 16,000 times a day.  SIXTEEN THOUSAND!   If we were give ten cents for every time our site was looked at, we would make our budget without a problem. 

Think about that. 

If every time you accessed VDARE.com, you just stuck a dime in a piggy bank, and then sent that amount to us at the end of the month – we wouldn't have to come on here asking for money.

And let me be clear about this: we don't like taking the site down. We don't like having to ask for money.  If it was up to us, we would be given grants to cover all of our VERY LOW operating costs, and you would never hear a word from us about money. 

Unfortunately, all of that money is now going elsewhere.  So we are stuck asking you to help us.  

I am still sending out a ton of grant proposals. Peter still had to carry all of VDARE.com's expenses personally for eight months this year. 

And I still haven't figured out how to get the office dogs, Kira (who commutes here with me) and Ulrich von Brimelow (growing FAST) to help out!  (Okay, they do a great job of boosting my morale!)

So, this is me once again asking you: please help us out!

I'll be really grateful!

And so will Kira and Ulrich!

Crystal

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