To: Concerned Americans and friends
From: Frosty Wooldridge
In order to push the immigration issue to the front burner, you must take action at every possible point. Please submit an essay of 500 to 750 words on why immigration harms America in the 21st century. I am going to attack it from the overpopulation aspect. You may write about the culture clash, linguistic chaos and environmental impacts. Immigration is clearly no longer good for America in that we do not need any more people and we cannot afford to incorporate the expected 100 million added by 2035 or sooner. Please send this invitation to all your contacts so they can write an essay exposing the perils of unending, relentless and unsustainable immigration. Kindest regards, Frosty Wooldridge
The Great American Think-Off releases the 2008 question "Does immigration strengthen or threaten the United States?"
Submit an essay of 750 words or less by April 1, 2008.
http://www.think-off.org/
TIME IS SHORT: Deadline is this week.
A panel of judges will select four finalists to come to New York Mills, Minnesota, for the final debate to be held June 14, 2008. http://www.kulcher.org/

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The 2008 Great American Think-Off question asks "Does immigration strengthen or threaten the United States?" One of the most heated questions debated in all corners of America today needs more light and less heat. And so the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center asks Americans and people from around the globe to address this question in the 2008 edition of the Great American Think-Off.
We commonly note that we are a nation of immigrants, but today more Americans seem frightened of immigration and immigrants than at any time in memory. We build a fence to keep undocumented persons out. We worry about losing even more jobs to the forces of globalization. Yet we all honor the emblem of our immigrant nation: the Statue of Liberty.
The 2008 Great American Think-Off asks for the understandings of American Indian people and newly arrived immigrants; citizens whose ancestors came here on the Mayflower (or soon after) and those who were brought here on slave ships; descendents of Finnish settlers here in Minnesota, of Acadians in Louisiana, and families from places like Michoacan making new lives from California to Maine.
Entering the competition is easy. Just submit an essay of 750 words or less by April 1, 2008. You may send your essay in one of three ways,: through the mail send to New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, P.O. Box 246, New York Mills, MN 56567 or email to
nymills@...
(no attachments) or submit on-line. http://www.think-off.org/html/online_entry.php
A panel of judges will select four finalists to come to New York Mills, Minnesota, for the final debate to be held June 14, 2008. The names of the four finalists, who each receive $500 plus travel, food and lodging expenses, will be announced May 1, 2008. A parade down Main Avenue to honor the finalists will be held in New York Mills on June 14th. The winner is decided by the audience attending the debate and she or he will be named "America’s Greatest Thinker".
Celebrating its 16th year, the Great American Think-Off is a national philosophy competition providing an opportunity for ordinary people to voice their opinions on some of life’s more perplexing questions.
Last year’s question, "Which Should You Trust More, Your Head or Your Heart?" encouraged the submission of hundreds of essays nationwide. Previous year’s questions included "Which is More Valuable to Society: Safety or Freedom?" (2005), "Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword?" (2002), "Is Democracy Fair?" (2000), "Is the Death Penalty Ethical in a Civilized Society?" (1997) and "Is Honesty Always the Best Policy?" (199 one of two years the debate was broadcast live on C-SPAN.

Example of my submitted essay at 734 words :
DOES IMMIGRATION STRENGTHEN OR THREATEN AMERICA : IMMIGRATION CAUSES OVERPOPULATION—HOW FAR DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE?
By Frosty Wooldridge


When an organism continues growing past maturity—it becomes obese or suffers from cancer. Unending growth proves unsustainable.

America added 106 million people from 1963 to 2007. Demographic experts confirmed our country reached a dangerous milestone of 300 million in October of 2006. The PEW Report predicts an added 100 million by 2035. Ninety percent of our population growth stems from immigrants and their offspring. We face irreversible consequences and unsolvable problems.

As population rises, carrying capacity drops. That term means, “The amount resources on a given piece of land to allow long term sustainable human, plant and animal life.â€