[at-l] What's Wrong with This Picture?

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

You people need to look at demography. The population o this country is not
growing because of people like us having children. If you blocked
immigration the population would be stable or would start dropping. Indeed
Europe is already at the point and so is Russia.

Bryan

-------Original Message-----
--Jim says:
--Well, they don't have to STOP, they just have to limit (1 or 
--2, no more) 
--how many they have. If we could stabilize (or even shrink) 
--the population 
--we'd stop expanding into what little wild is left. Of course 
--stabilizing or 
--shrinking the population is a problem because we live in an 
--economy that is 
--based on endless growth, but that's getting off topic again 
--so I won't go 
--there. 
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--But don't you see the pattern????
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--People don't STOP having children in order to stabilize or 
--reduce the population.  They stop having children in order to 
--have more money readily available to purchase more items 
--sooner.  It's not about population, it's about consumption.
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--Conspicuous Consumption.
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--Now I'll make people angry at me.  I honestly believe if 
--people who have intelligence do not breed enough offspring, 
--those people with reduced intelligence will be the ones 
--running the country and deciding who lives and who gets put 
--out on an ice flow.
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--Maybe we already have that (I heard your thoughts!).
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--Hey you couples with intelligence, get busy and have some smart kids!!
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--America (and the World) And What You Can Do About It" 
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