Thread: THE NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS

PILING UP ON THE ROCKS: PART 13--NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS
Posted by PHX - Frosty Wooldridge on Tuesday August 14, 2007 at 10:06 am MDT

The first 12 parts of this series sobered countless readers. It depressed many and caused despair for the faint of heart. However, most Americans can’t or refuse to grasp our dilemma. By checking our growth rates, not only will we add 100 million in three decades, we’ll add another 100 million on top of that, and do it again until we become one billion people by the start of the next century.

No one wants to discuss it. Everyone hush-hushes about the preacher’s daughter being pregnant. No one wants to talk about sexual or domestic abuse now epidemic in America. No one talks about 18 teenagers committing suicide every day in this country. Better not talk about the 22,000 deaths by drunken drivers annually! Let’s pretend it’s not happening.

China’s and India’s leaders did the same thing 50 years ago. They didn’t talk about their exploding populations. Guess what? They got what they didn’t talk about. Can you imagine what it means to the billions of Chinese and Indians now living within the clutches of overpopulation?

Adding 100 million people to the United States in 33 years might not be so bad if there weren’t 300 million already here. But they are here! And, if nothing is done, we will add 100 million people to our country in the blink of three decades.

What do you think the newspapers will feature in 2040? Better news than today? Perhaps you’ll read flowery reports on human progress. How about glowing editorials on our expanding “American Dream?â€

I read somewhere that were it not for immigration, America would have reached ZPG sometime in the seventies. Now we're hearing outcries from the third world that we need their young workers, and some countries (India) are even threatening to use pressure in the WTO to force us to let their people in. I also frequently run into foreigners who insist that this country should be wide open so that anyone can come here. One Indian gentleman on another board argued that India was a sovereign nation because it had been in existence for thousands of years, whereas we were just some johnny-come-lately who didn't count, therefore we had no right to limit immigration. They also keep calling us immigrants, when we are far more invested here than they are. It's not like we could get on a plane for 'home' if America doesn't work out for us, as they can.

[quote]China, at 1.3 billion people, numbs my mind’s ability to comprehend their problems. The Wall Street Journal headlined “A Poison Spreads amid China’s Boomâ€