Guess I'm weighing in firmly behind Edweirdness.  I live in the American Southwest, the fastest growing region of the world's fourth fastest growing nation. At the same time, the Southwest is effectively OUT OF WATER!  Even the U.S. Bureau of Reclammation--ever a promoter of boom growth--admits that Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir in the United States, can never be refilled at today's population in the Southwest.  Meanwhile, there are scientific studies showing even odds that Lake Mead, that icon of American ingenuity and progress and the largest reservoir in the nation, might actually run dry, and that without the likely influence of global warming!  This is so likely that Las Vegas, NV, which depends on Lake Mead/Hoover Dam for 90 percent of its water, is in an emergency program to construct a new intake at the BOTTOM of Lake Mead because its two current intakes might soon be unable to draw water.  For further insight, bear in mind that half of all growth on the planet will happen in just eight nations:  India, Pakistan, Nigeria, China, THE UNITED STATES, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  How are we or the planet going to solve any of our environmental problems with the world's industrial heavy weights also its population heavyweights?

Politicians and the news media ignore the population elephant in the room. Heck, the media without hesitation promote unfetter population growth.  As a result, we are denied a national discussion about the implications of the population explosion immigration is driving and what type of nation we want for our children, even though Americans, I think, I have shown that with an essentially replacement-level birth rate since the early 1970s--an effort subverted by unfettered immigration.

Also, I find that it is the politically correct among us, more than minorities, who worry about "racist attitudes."  When I began to speak out on this subject, I was deeply touched at New Mexico Hispanics who contacted me thanking me, and why shouldn't they. Cesar Chavez once offered the United Farm Workers to help patrol the border, and who, after all, is most hurt by open borders?  It is our own minority poor, such as a friend of mine who was told not to push too hard for a pay increase at work or she'd find herself replaced by an illegal border crosser.  How come racism only applies to immigrants?  Isn't it racist to ignore unemployed Hispanics and blacks who are native born?

If we had more people that thought like rchpin, we could become a REAL 3rd world slum in no time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Highlander,

Your comment is well taken and correct. Thank you for your insightful view points.

Robert Bone