New Pat Buchanan essay ! " Is the GOP headed for the Boneyard?"

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If the Republicans implode there will be another entity developed to take its place.

The Whigs self destructed by trying to straddle both sides of the slavery fence. The succeeding America party (AKA Know Nothing) was brief in existence, but the Republican party came out of the political ashes to be founded along with Lincoln's presidency.

This is a true story:

Still, the GOP crisis is not so much illegal as legal immigration. Forty million legal immigrants have arrived in recent decades. Some 85 percent come from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Most arrived lacking the academic, language and labor skills to compete for high-paying jobs.

What does government do for them?

Subsidizes their housing and provides free education for their kids from Head Start through K-12, plus food stamps and school lunches, Pell Grants and student loans for college, Medicaid if they are sick, earned income tax credits if they work and 99 weeks of unemployment checks if they lose their job.

These are people who depend upon government.

Why would they vote for a party that is going to cut taxes they do not pay, but take away government benefits they do receive?

When the cash runs out it won't matter whether or not they have a vote.

It's best to pay everything off and grow a garden, maybe bury anything which might serve as currency in mayonnaise jars in the back yard. I think things are going to get much worse before they get better.