Quote from peilthetraveler:
Since america is one of the richest countries....
you can't be serious.
you'd better take a look at the total debt, public and private, of the USA. 100 TRILLION or something on that order? yah mon....that's a big-ass pile o' bills all right...
our standard of living has -already- fallen below a dozen other countries in only the past 10 years. I'll bet you're well off, and urban...of -course- you think "we" are rich. If you'd check out the ghettos, the decimated rural areas and small towns, etc., you might have a more accurate picture.
In just 2-3 more years, as the depression takes hold, it's going to be horrendous here....
As far as the comment about immigration being "xenophobic" blah blah....that's a bunch of useless moralizing crap.
The problem ain't xenophobia dude, the problem is people spouting feel-good nonsense like that, without having a clue about REAL WORLD system-wide concerns.
This country -already- has 2-3 times the population that our fresh-water and arable land resources can support long-term. Long-term carry capacity here is around 60-100 million; not 500 million. Aquifer drawdown is already very serious in the west and midwest.
I loved the part about 2.45 children not being much different than 2.08 !
I can tell that you're not well versed in population statistics. fyi, that is a HUGE difference!
Look at birth/death models and replacement threshold statistics....over generational time periods, that's a monster difference. Think of it as "compounding" and maybe you'll get the picture...
The gentleman's point about schools and other public-borne costs being used with next to zero contribution is spot on. Gainsay it all you like, but he's 100% correct.
And what in the world gave you the idea that public schools cost -less- than private schools ??? The TOTAL cost is not just the taxes labeled "education".
Look at the mega-debt that states have taken on to fund all that bloat... Public schools are one of the biggest money-sinks in the country.
And just a note about the original paper that was posted....
That is the yak-yak from the libertarian PARTY....but it sure as hell does NOT represent the views of a whole lot of libertarians.
I just don't want anyone writing off libertarianism because of this sort of garbage coming out of the LP these days.
Much of it has little to do with fundamental underlying libertarian views...and lots to do with the LP being co-opted by the PTB....much as the other 3rd-parties have been...