Population conversation
Paul Larmer states that solutions to the West's tough problems won't be easy (HCN, 6/9/08). True, but we'd do well to focus on one problem whose solution would do so much to alleviate all the others: population growth, mentioned so often in passing, but concentrated on and acted on so rarely. We remain bemused and passive observers even as the Census Bureau adds a California-sized bump-up to its future U.S. population estimate. Now we can expect to grow by almost half in just 50 years. Shocking? Impossible? Hardly. That's just what's in the works, and what our children will have to accept and adjust to.
The operating assumption, of course, is that public ignorance and passivity will continue. What to do?
Short-term, there's no alternative to keep pressing hard on immigration enforcement and reducing legal immigration. But more importantly, pressure Congress to again (as in 1970) set up a commission on population and the American future that brings together articulate spokesmen from all sides, including the-more-the-better ain't-no-limits cornucopians. A heated national-level discussion that can't be ignored should be all that is needed to make us frogs in the comfy American cookpot a bit jumpy.
Phil Leatherman
Bainbridge Island, Washington
NO AMNESTY! NEVER!
For the facts of the destruction of our economies by millions of illegal aliens feeding at the public trough. Sanctioned crimes in SANCTUARY CITIES & STATES by Governors, Mayors and their pathetic city managers. California being a prime example where $11 billion dollars, in welfare benefits for illegal aliens.
If we enact the Federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) enforcement only law. Millions of illegal aliens will leave by self-deportation. ATTRITION! No job, they will leave of their own accord. Only anti-American groups and Liberal-Democrat-Socialists are stopping this law. ASK THEM WHY?
IT'S YOUR FAMILIES FUTURE. DEPORTATION OR OVERPOPULATION.
IF WE DON'T STOP IT NOW, MILLIONS WILL KEEP COMING TO APPEASE PREDATORY BUSINESSES.
JOIN 756.000 other American patriots at www.numbersusa.com , to stop the travesty of our immigration laws. Learn about Immigration governmental corruption at www.judicialwatch.org