By Frosty WooldridgeExclusive to Rense2-10-26

One of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, conceived of public education in order to grow an intelligent population where citizens enjoyed critical thinking, reasoning and rational choices. Upon writing the U.S. Constitution, one reporter asked him, “What kind of a government did you create?” Franklin answered, “A Constitutional Republic…if we can keep it.”

Thankfully, taxpayers created K-12 education for our young republic. For the past 250 years, educated citizens have become the hallmark of our free country. Our intellectual energy, creativity and freedoms have been the inspiration for countries around the world. We’ve created cars, trains, airplanes, computers, movies, washers-dryers, televisions, electric cars, rocket ships to the moon, and every technological advancement known to humanity.

We also created welfare systems for the less fortunate. We created food stamps for people out of work. We’ve created Section 8 Housing for the poor. We created food pantries for those without means. We’ve got women’s shelters from abusive husbands. We save millions of cats and dogs from continued misery. If you look across the spectrum of humanity, America leads in the world with environmental causes, climate remediation, saving animals from extinction, cleaning up rivers and working toward a more viable world.

But the one thing that has thrown a "wrench into our spokes" began with the 1965 Immigration Reform Act. We jumped from a manageable 200,000 legal immigrants, annually, to a whopping 1,000,000 refugees out of the Third World, annually. At first, no one felt the change. But 61 years later in 2026, we’re seeing the negative results in every strata of our society.

First of all, we jumped from 194 million Americans in 1965 to our current gigantic 340 million people along with 25 million illegal aliens. We’ve been piled up with people from every corner of the world. And yet, Congress continues pumping 1.1 million people into America annually.

It doesn’t matter whether we can solve our current problems or not. Just keep pumping more people into our country with no idea of the growing negative results!

Second, in order to accommodate them, we’ve lowered our educational standards to such a degree, that a major proportion of America suffers “functional illiteracy.” The term, “Math is racist” should sober every American. Talk about “STUPID!”

“Approximately 21% of U.S. adults—roughly 43 to 45 million people—are functionally illiterate, meaning they read below a fifth-grade level and struggle with tasks like reading medicine labels, filling out forms, or understanding news articles. This issue contributes significantly to poverty, with 3 in 4 people on welfare unable to read.”

That leads us to 42 million Americans subsisting on food stamps. They do not contribute to America, but instead, leech trillions of dollars out of taxpayers’ wallets. It has led to 774,000 homeless in America. It’s led to crime, shoplifting, drug addiction and murders in cities like Chicago, New York City, Detroit, New Orleans, LA, Seattle, et al.

Source: Rense.com