A CASE FOR POPULATION CONTROL, VI

07/14/2009 A CASE FOR POPULATION CONTROL, VI An economic down turn combined with the technology that is replacing humans in jobs, an increase in "productivity" and an end to consumerism that is needed to save the planet how do we justify an increasing population? From the fifties on thru the start of the eighties, (remember Ronald Reagan, NAFTA, and THE GATT), Technology was serving the humanity, the air travel had made the world smaller, trade was increasing. Up until that time, the United States was the leader in manufacturing and technology. We were producing things that other people wanted to buy and pay premium prices for it. We made things and brought in money from overseas, we were rich. Then we started buying stuff from overseas and sent our manufacturing jobs to people who lived on a bowl of rice a day, heck even India and China and the lowly Pakistan are importing goods made cheaply in other countries. As I have stated in my previous writings, the new American economy was a farce. As Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton and Bush 43 led our country and the world in to the "La La Land" of ever increasing prosperity based on an ever increasing money supply and the "riches beyond belief" of the borrowed money. If no one saw it coming, then in 2003, I had warned of the upcoming catastrophe, it was in my new year's eve letter to the Money magazine and the Dothan Eagle, we have been duped for so long. Today, regardless of their promises and pleadings to the contrary, there will be no recovery for the majority of the people of this country or the world. Here is something you should also take note of though. In the upcoming battle about the immigration in the United States congress, you will see the arguments being made that we don't have jobs for the people who are already here, that was my argument against amnesty back in 2006. If it is true, and it is, that the United States herself cannot afford to have any more people that it already has, then how can a third world country support a larger and ever growing population. The "economic boom" of the United States had many beneficiaries, in faraway places, now the economic misery is also spreading around the world, for every job lost in the United States there are six or seven jobs being lost somewhere else around the globe. If the misery of the poor was increasing during the good times, (A War on Poverty), then what do we have to look forward to as the poverty and unemployment are headed for increases in the foreseeable future. If the drug wars, child prostitution, slavery, sexual slavery, bondage, higher rates of illnesses and other miseries are the future of humanity, then it is better to stop producing babies now. So far, no government and no industry and no liberal or conservative think tank , no religion, no NGO and no religious organization is willing to face up to the reality of this future. Even the China plan of one baby per family is drastically short of what is needed.