While the nation rocks under the spectacle of illegal immigrants taking to the street to demand rights, the borrowholics in the District of Corruption continue with their flagrant ways to impoverish Americans.

In the first seven working days of April, the Bush administration averaged $5 billion a day in new borrowing for a total so far of an additional $35.4 billion in April. We are on track to beat last month's record $101 billion.

Notice that about four billion of this new debt came from entitlements like Social Security overtaxes that most illegal immigrants probably don’t pay while the bulk of it came from foreign investors still willing or intimidated into providing us with a form of welfare so we can shop at WalMart and drive more local neighborhood people out of business. Pretty soon they’ll be selling cars and home mortgages, maybe trailers for New Orleans with “price is right” license plates. Why don’t we just send our income tax payments to China?

But this isn’t all of it – not by a long shot.

Do you remember all of the hype about thousands of new jobs in our workforce? Certainly enough to keep us above the 150,000 or so needed every month just to give teens and grads entering the workforce something to do. Wasn’t it 163,000 new jobs in January – 195,000 in February – and now a whopping 211,000 reported just a few days ago for March?

After spending the extra Social Security money garnered from excessive payroll taxes, the Beltway Bandits pretend that the same money can be both spent and saved by adding those surpluses to our national debt in the form of nonmarketable bonds so taxpayers can pay these amounts again, a second time, with interest added. Criminal as it is, this also provides us with a reading of the job situation in America:

The accumulated surplus amount for 2006 did go up a bit in March. Now we’re only $10 billion below last year when February showed us about $13 billion below the same time last year. Do you want to call that a remarkable improvement? A strong economy?

The only good news is that the Beltway Bandits are not going to have as much to steal this year. If the trend continues, they will not reach the $86.5 billion they stole last year or the $71.1 billion from fiscal 2004. Oh well, if they can't steal it from our supplemental retirement program they'll just borrow it from China, Japan, or maybe even India now that Bush has promised to enhance their nuclear program.

Isn’t it obvious that the vast majority of the “new” jobs are low paying menial tasks? There are bound to be some good jobs in there as hyped by the Christian Science Monitor, what was once a good newspaper, but the vast majority have to be low paying or there would be more payroll tax revenue coming in. Now that we've put religion into politics you can't tell what we're going to hear.

Maybe some of the illegal aliens decided to pay their payroll taxes instead of sending that money back to Mexico and before taking to the streets to wave flags and risk arrest and deportation, a thing their leaders tell us we could not afford to do. It says something about Latino straightforwardness and what they've learned from us doesn't it? Spare the rod and spoil the child.