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Tuesday Night Acoustic: Thomas Leeb - Fishbowl

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus11/20/2012 9:11:54 pm PST

About Rubio, the paleo-conservatives are quite clear that real Americans are “white” and have made no bones about it.

Oh look, PaleoPat’s latest column has the title:

Mitt Wasn’t All Wrong About “Gifts”

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But Mitt also has a point.

Consider America’s largest, fastest-growing minority.

Hispanics constituted 10 percent of the electorate, up from 7.5 in 2008. But Mitt got only 27 percent of that, the lowest of any Republican presidential candidate.

This, we are told, was because of Mitt’s comment about “self-deportation” and GOP support for a border fence and sanctions on employers who hire illegals. If only we embrace the Dream Act and provide a path to citizenship — amnesty — the GOP’s problem is solved.

The Republican capacity for self-delusion is truly awesome.

Set aside the idealized Hispanic of the Republican consultants’ vision. What does the real Hispanic community look like today?

Let us consider only native-born Hispanics, U.S. citizens.

According to Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, which analyzed Census Bureau statistics from 2012:

— More than one in five Hispanic citizens lives in poverty.

— One in four Hispanic-American men 25 to 55 is out of work.

— More than half of all Hispanic women 25-55 are unmarried.

— Half of all Hispanic households with children are headed by an unmarried woman, and 55 percent depend on welfare programs.

These numbers do not improve with time, as they did with the Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish and German immigrants who poured into the United States between 1890 and 1920. Third-generation Hispanics do worse than second-generation Hispanics in all the above categories.

This is a huge community being sucked into the morass of a mammoth welfare state. Consider a typical Hispanic household with children.

[…]

There, he said it. PaleoPat is looking at native born hispanics - and that includes Rubio - and concludes that they are indeed exactly what Mitt called them - gift seekers.