American Prosperity: Keeping It Real
A reader notes:The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most European Nations. The privilege of living in the US affords poor people more material resources than the averages for most of the world’s richest nations, according to a study by The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) an economic think-tank in the United States dedicated to the “economic, ethical and legal principles of a free society.
So, is it a surprise that so many people from around the world are willing to risk their lives and the lives of their children to live here?
Please read this article. We all believe that immigration is good for those who come here and good for our country, but we must maintain a legal immigration process. What is going on at our southern border is truly a crisis and it is immoral. Their blood is on our hands.
I became suspicious because it’s obvious that the bottom 20% of Americans are really poor, which is hard to miss when you look at our cities’ slums and the rural parts of the states in the eastern and southern part of the country. We have the United Nations visiting the U.S. to chastise us about people living with open sewers flowing through their front yards, and demanding that we do something.
By contrast, I haven’t noticed too much abject poverty driving and training around Europe.
It appears that you omitted the word “libertarian” from the description of the Foundation for Economic Education, which, according to this, says that FEE is a “libertarian economic think-tank.” What that means is this: It doesn’t exist to provide fair and balanced reporting, but rather to promote how prosperous the United States is, thus calling for little/no immigration and the smallest possible government.
We live in a world full of information, and sadly, some of it is blatantly false and deliberately misleading; your article is a great example.
