Problems created over 30 years ago - Commentary by Frank Gillispie

Problems created over 30 years ago – Commentary by Frank Gillispie

Every action has a reaction. Every decision has consequences. Sometimes we know what to expect. Sometimes we have no idea what new problems we are creating.

Consider the two major problems in America today. At least they are the ones that all the politicians are talking about. The first is saving Social Security. The second is illegal immigration. Both of these are the result of a decision we made thirty two years ago. That was when the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Roe v. Wade, that all abortions were legal.

In the thirty two years since that decision, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, over 46 million unborn children have been aborted. That is, 46 million fewer native born Americans. We need those people to fill the work force, and fill the Social Security coffers.

We hear speech after speech about how the number of available workers paying into the Social Security system is dropping at the same time that more and more of us reach retirement age. We are warned constantly that without some kind of adjustment, Social Security is doomed to bankruptcy. We have too many people collecting Social Security and not enough people paying in.

Now, how big would the problem be if we had those 46 million people either in the work force or about to enter it? Now about those illegal immigrants: Millions of them are flowing across the border looking for work. Because they are illegal, they are working underground? That is, they are paid cash ?off the books? The only taxes they pay are the sales taxes on products they buy. They pay no income tax, and especially, no Social Security or Medicare tax. They are filling those low paying entry level jobs that would have been filled by those young American workers, had they been allowed to be born.

So, where do we stand? We have a reduced generation struggling to pay the taxes to provide Social Security for their parents, with little expectation that Social Security will be available to them. We have a massive invasion of illegal immigrants who are overthrowing our culture with their own language, holidays, and customs. We have thrown away so many of our own children that we can no longer maintain our American way of life.

It has been often said that our children are our future. It should be clear that if we systematically destroy our children, we are destroying our future. The America of my childhood is all but gone. And it will be gone in another generation. It will be lost to the insistent demand by those who wish to dodge the responsibility of child rearing for abortions on demand.

We made a bad decision. We are suffering the consequences of that decision. Our only chance is to reverse Roe v. Wade immediately, and even then, it may be too late.