The next 20 years in America—sobering look

We are SO unprepared for our future!

Part 1

First of all, I am an optimist.  I love life!  I get a kick out of being alive.  I enjoy the American Dream more than most.  I play, dance with my wife twice a week and look forward to the summer.   Last year, I bicycled coast-to-coast across America for the 7^th time.  Last month, as I closed in on age 65, I skied to the top of a 13,209 foot peak at 31 below zero in Colorado.  At the top: a glorious view of 100 miles in all directions to see the majestic snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains!  Robert Redford’s got nothing on me in his movie — Jeremiah Johnson!

While the average American, according to NPR, sits in front of a TV for 15 years of his/her life—I’m out there living, playing and adventuring! You can bet that I laugh a lot, pray a lot, appreciate my wife and family—and expect more adventures.

However, I am also cognizant of what our civilization faces in the next 20 years.  To be downright realistic, I am not looking forward to it.  How do I know what I am writing about?  I’ve seen it up close and ugly in my 40 years of bicycle travel around the planet.

The next 20 years won’t be the cakewalk like the last 20 years!   Why?  While I cannot cover such a litany of challenges in three columns, you may be able to digest a few for starters.

First of all, gasoline will continue to rise in price from the current $3.19 cents here in Colorado and $3.46 in most of California, and topping out at $4.69 in West Covina, CA—to $5.00 a gallon this summer and higher beyond that.  It’s already $6.69 in Europe.  If you read Chris Steiner’s book, $20 Per Gallon, and I reviewed the book last year, ultimately gasoline will cost $10.00 a gallon and within 20 years or so, it will hit $20.00 per gallon.  Why? Because we continue devouring that finite resource at an astounding 84 million barrels of oil every day of the year.  That’s 400 million gallons per day in the USA alone! Poof! Up in carbon footprint as it pollutes our biosphere!

“The cheap oil age created an artificial bubble of plentitude for a period not much longer than a human lifetime….so I hazard to assert that as oil ceases to be cheap and the world reserves move toward depletion, we will be left with an enormous population…that the ecology of the earth will not support. The journey back toward non-oil population homeostasis will not be pretty.  We will discover the hard way that population hyper growth was simply a side-effect of the oil age.  It was a condition, not a problem with a solution. That is what happened and we are stuck with it.”  James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency

Oil’s decline will change everything!  We will not be driving personal cars because we will be forced to use mass transit. It will change the way we shop, eat and travel.  Bicycles, my favorite mode of transportation, will become more dominant in our cities.  Unfortunately, we do not and have not found a replacement for oil even close to its energy-density and ease of transport.

Peak Oil will change how we grow food and its cost.  It will change transport of food and materials.  It’s already happening!  With our humongous 312 million population, it will be interesting to see if we can afford to eat or if we can grow enough food TO eat.

As oil prices rise, we will see more starvation around the world—currently at 18 million humans annually.  We can expect 30 to 40 million human beings starving to death annually by mid century if not more.

We humans have gotten ourselves into a heck of a conundrum on many levels.

Within the next 20 years, Americans, if they continue accepting relentless immigration, will see an added 50 to 60 million immigrants on top of another 20 million their (our) own citizens.  That means another 60 to 75 million human beings will be competing for jobs, water, food and energy to keep warm and feed themselves.

Anybody scratching their noggins right about now?  Getting a little nervous for your kids? Concerned about their fate?  What about the rest of the planet?  Ever hear of the phrase, “I want to give my kids a better life than I had.”  Reality: ain’t gonna’ happen!

Since humans add 1.0 billion people net gain every 13 years, that means 1.5 billion more people added to the planet within 20 years.  Ever here of the song, “They’re coming to America….” by Neil Diamond?

As that ‘surge’ of humanity stampedes across the globe racing into “remaining” civilized and sustainable countries like the USA, Canada, Australia and all of Europe—it means your quality of life and standard of living drop like a brick in water.  It means massive unemployed, now at 15 million Americans, will grow to 20 million unemployed Americans. It means 43 million Americans subsisting on food stamps in March of 2011, will grow to over 50 million in a short time.  It means poverty and hopelessness will grow beyond imagination or solving.

Fellow Americans, I am only hitting the tip of the iceberg in this three part series.  If we continue on this current immigration path of adding 3.1 million desperate souls every year to our country from a line that grows by 80 million more annually—we and our children: screwed!  Plain and simple!  Immigrants, too!  The results will be unpleasant, even devastating for all of us.

How do I know?  I’ve already witnessed it firsthand in my world travels. Once those numbers manifest, everybody suffers equally.  We’ll cover more of what we face in part 2.  We can change the future, but, after writing about it for the past 30 years, I question whether we possess the wisdom, energy or guts to change our future for the better.  How could we save ourselves?

1.   Suspend all immigration today.

2.   Engage every scientist in the world to create workable alternative energy.

3.   Massive movement toward conservation of water, gasoline and resources. Two cylinder cars, electric cars, solar powered cars, etc.

4.   Massive recycling incentive-driven 10 cent return/deposit on all plastic, metal, aluminum and glass containers of every kind sold in stores.

5.   How about changing our $800 billion annual military expenses to half that and move toward peace and sanity by leaving Iraq and Afghanistan?

6.   Your ideas?

Don’t think I know what I’m talking about?  Just look at these two videos for 5 and 10 minutes:

In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck

This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a word “Mind boggling!” www.NumbersUSA.org

Reindeers run, Cars race and Malthus wins

Because I am prolific and well-versed in the overpopulation predicament facing America—you guessed it, I endure ‘experts’ and ‘emotional’ as well as ‘religious’ people coming out of the woodwork to prove me incorrect. They cannot!  I pull from a body of science and world experience greater than 99 percent of the human race. No brag, just fact!  I’ve witnessed what I write about.  As a math/science teacher, I understand the “exponential growth” equation and that it cannot continue on a finite planet.

Additionally, I work with Richard Heinberg, author and brilliant mind with books such as: Peak Everything: Facing a Century of Declines. I work with Dr. Albert Bartlett at www.albartlett.org and his world famous program on “Arithmetic, Sustainability and Population.”   I work with Dr. Diana Hull, Dr. William Catton, Dr. Jack Alpert, Dr. George Colburn, Lindsey Grant, Kathleene Parker and a plethora of outstanding minds on the issue of human overpopulation.  Still, I get a boat load of emotional balderdash that, “It’s not people, but the bad corporations, waste and irresponsible people that are destroying the planet.”

Emotions won’t save anybody, but common sense and rational action will!  Thus, Denis Hayes brings it home in this excellent work atwww.populationpress.org with director Marilyn Hempel.  Published with permission.

In this continuing series, director Marilyn Hempel of www.populationpress.org , offers the finest writers and scientists on environment and overpopulation.

In this interview, she features Denis Hayes, with “Reindeers, cars and Malthus: Population, consumption and carrying capacity.”

We’ve got ourselves into a mell of a hess don’t we Mr. Hayes:

“In 1944, reindeer were introduced to St. Matthew Island off Alaska in the Bering Sea. During the next 20 years, under exceptionally benign conditions, the herd grew explosively to 6,000 reindeer,” said Hayes. “Then, in the fierce winter of 1964, it crashed to just 42. The deer had overgrazed the lichens that were their main source of winter forage and, in a severe winter, the vast majority starved to death.

“The St. Matthew Island deer followed a standard ecological model. When biological controls–such as food limits, disease, or predators–are removed from a species, the population grows explosively. Eventually, the population exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment. Sometimes favorable conditions permit a species to expand temporarily far beyond its long-term carrying capacity. This always leads to a catastrophic collapse. This pattern is followed by elk, trout, ladybugs, and every other creature with an instinct to “be fruitful and multiply.”

“Carrying capacity is an ecological concept that measures the largest number of any species that a habitat can support indefinitely. For most species, it is fairly easy to determine.

“However, for human beings, carrying capacity is not determined simply by assessing population and resources. Our species is able to think abstractly, to envision contingent futures, to make strategic choices. The choices we make in lifestyles and technologies have enormous implications for how many of us a biological system can support over the long haul. For example, whether or not a society has automobiles greatly influences the resources needed to sustain it. Conversely, the choices we make collectively about the size of our population will determine what lifestyles we will be able to enjoy.

“For example, China and the United States encompass about the same amount of land–roughly 3.6 million square miles. The US population is about 281 million people; China’s, at 1.3 billion, is almost five times as high. The United States could support 1.3 billion people, at a Chinese standard of living, for quite a while. However, China will never be able to support 1.3 billion people at an American standard of living.

“Similarly, today’s global human population of 6.8 billion far exceeds the planet’s carrying capacity if the average person is to enjoy the current lifestyles and technologies of the United States. Since World War II, Americans have consumed more of the world’s mineral wealth than all other people in all societies throughout the entire course of history before the war. If everyone consumed at the American level, all the world’s oil reserves would shrink to just a few year’s supply; all the world’s old growth rain forests would disappear in less than a decade; the build-up of toxic wastes might alarm even Rush Limbaugh.

“Until the past few decades, human numbers posed no special danger to the earth. Today, however, Homo Sapiens is literally devouring the planet. So far, we have destroyed about 12% of the net biological productivity of the planet, and we use an additional 27% directly and indirectly. In other words, our species has laid claim to about 40% of all the sunlight that is fixed by photosynthesis and that ultimately provides all the energy that sustains life on earth. While we take 40%, other species are currently experiencing what Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson characterizes as the most calamitous biological collapse in 65 million years.

“Much of human population makes only minimal demands upon the resources of the planet. Even so, the world’s major biological systems are approaching their limits. Food and fiber production have leveled out everywhere over the past five years. Virtually all the best land is in production (along with much marginal land where agriculture cannot be sustained in the long run), and recent increases in fertilizer use have yielded no significant gains. All the world’s major fisheries have plateaued, and many–including the salmon fisheries of the Pacific Northwest and the cod and haddock fisheries of New England–are collapsing. Vast tracts of wilderness, teeming with myriad creatures, are being reduced to tiny biological reserves.

“What will happen as other peoples develop economically and seek some of the material well-being that we enjoy? For example, China plans to triple its coal use by 2010. If it succeeds, it will then be releasing about 50% more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the US does today.

“All the world’s major environmental issues–forestry, fisheries, healthy air and water, toxic wastes, sustainable energy sources, sensible transportation systems, etc.–will eventually be overwhelmed by a growing population, unless we choose a different path.

“A thoughtful study of global human carrying capacity was released in early 1994 by David Pimentel, a professor of biology at Cornell University. Professor Pimentel calculates that, if the most benign and efficient technologies are universally embraced, the world can permanently support a human population of 2 billion people at a lifestyle that resembles middle-class life in today’s industrialized nations.

“The bad news is that the world’s population is three times that high already. The good news is that we could choose to reduce the human population to 2 billion people in about 100 years without having to experience a catastrophic collapse caused by starvation, plague, or war. It would require that every family on earth have an average of 1.5 children.

“How realistic is this? Germany has already reached it, averaging just 1.5 children per family. Hong Kong has 1.4. Italy–among the most Catholic of all countries–averages 1.3. Unfortunately, in many other countries, family sizes average from 5 to 9. The task of reversing this cultural preference for huge families is daunting.

“The 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development laid out a grand strategy for the world. The next steps must be taken by nations, regions, states, cities, and individuals. If we wish to keep our communities livable, our farms productive, our forests healthy, our fisheries vigorous, our remaining wild rivers undammed, we need to develop a widely supported, regional population strategy. We need to have the courage to endorse tough-minded goals, set realistic milestones, and establish public policies that support these ends.

“When I couch the issue in these broad, vague, courageous-sounding terms, it is hard to disagree. However, I believe that carrying capacity–the trade-offs between sheer numbers of people and the quality of their lives–could emerge as one of the most emotionally pitched issues on the political landscape.

“There are many ways that the issue could rapidly achieve national prominence. Already, immigration-related issues sizzle in the four most populous states: California, New York, Texas and Florida. If immigration-driven growth expands into other states the inexorable forces of national politics may quickly expand the debate. One of the first questions will be whether immigrants should be eligible for preferential hiring, set-aside college admissions, or other forms of affirmative action aimed at historically excluded groups.

“Without attempting to settle anything in this brief article, let me quickly flag some other highly contentious immigration questions we could soon find ourselves confronting.

“How many immigrants should the United States accept each year? The 1972 Rockefeller Commission suggested 400,000. The 1981 Theodore Hesburgh Select Commission recommended 350,000. The Federation for American Immigration Reform wants 300,000. Currently it varies between 1 million and 1.5 million legal immigrants per year–more than 1/3 of our total population growth. This number is a political choice. Is it a good choice?

“Where should these immigrants come from? Liberals would say we should be indifferent. But unless we simply open our borders to all comers, we must have some criteria to determine who is admitted, and those criteria will have consequences. As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, we ended national quotas and introduced the “family reunification” principle. This has had fascinating, and wholly unexpected, consequences for the nature of the immigrant pool.

“Not to beat around the bush, the overwhelming majority of America’s immigrants during the nations first 200 years came from Europe. Sooner or later, Patrick Buchanan or David Duke or one of Bull Conner’s other heirs will notice that our immigrant patterns, when coupled with differential birth rates among ethnic groups, are changing the racial makeup of the society. In 1960, the United States was 88.6% white. By 1990, it was 75.6% white. Under current patterns, whites will cease being a majority around 2050–and of course they will cease being a majority in some states and regions long before then.

“Whether you view this as good or bad may depend on where you stand. For example, the greatest losers at the moment are African Americans who find themselves competing for education, training, scholarships, and jobs with immigrant people of color. Moreover, these newly-arrived Americans typically have no sense of guilt over past American injustices, and often express widespread hostility to blacks. Tensions in many transitional neighborhoods are palpable, and are registered through ethnic gang violence.

Other questions:

• Should America accept immigrants (other than political refugees) from nations that don’t allow reciprocal immigration? These include China, Korea, Japan, Egypt, and (except for wealthy retirees) Mexico.
• Does the citizenship-by-birth rule continue to have a useful function today, other than as a boon to pregnant illegal aliens?
• Should we interdict fund transfers by immigrants back to their lands of origin? These sums, large in the aggregate, undercut American capital formation. On the other hand, they may be the largest source of US international assistance in this ultra-conservative era.
• What are the economic consequences of immigration? Revealed wisdom has long held that the sorts of risk-takers who become immigrants are the sort who will contribute creative ideas and hard work to build a stronger America. However, our policies do not select for these attributes. A growing fraction of immigrants are illiterate, not just in English, but in all languages. If immigration is such a boon to the economy, how do we explain the extraordinary economic success of the Asian “tiger” economies that allow no immigration?

“If you think these questions are tough, think for a moment about how society will greet policies that attempt to limit the growth of domestic population,” said Hayes. “Reproductive rates correlate closely with the status of women; they are directly linked to Social Security; and they can have deep religious and cultural overtones. In a democracy, a large population can provide a secure base of political power.

“Income tax deductions (or penalties) for multiple children, sex education programs to reduce teenage pregnancy, and welfare payments for dependent children all have immediate, direct consequences for population growth. All are capable of igniting political firestorms.

“Some people reject every contention in this article, and simply favor continued population growth. Population growth is attractive to religious leaders seeking to bring a larger number of souls to God’s greater glory. Population growth is attractive to patriots who fear we are not producing enough cannon fodder to re-fight World War II. Population growth is favored by certain economic theorists who believe that more labor and more consumers will yield a healthier economy.

“Finally, many liberals and conservatives, who may disagree on what constitutes an optimum population, will come together in the shared belief that a person’s decision whether or not to have a baby, or another baby, is the most private, personal choice an individual can make. They believe that the state has no business trying to influence this decision–even if it is the twelfth child, or even if the child will be born to a crack addict with no source of support.

“Yet in population policy, the decision to have a baby is the only important decision. People don’t have birth rates; people have babies. If we can’t persuade people to choose to have fewer babies, our species faces a predictable fate. It remains an unresolved issue, whether Homo Sapiens is wise enough to transcend the standard ecological model and avoid the fate of the St. Matthew Island reindeer.”

72 million legal immigrants added to USA in 24 years

Yet, After hammering on the immigration issue for the past 30 years, I am at my wits end on how to alert a complacent American citizenry as to its children’s ominous future.  What’s more, I don’t think anyone understands their horrific endowment to future generations of our civilization, i.e., our kids.  Worse, I don’t think the American majority cares a twit!

For a fact, I know the U.S. Congress and the past five presidents did not and  our current president  does not understand the final ramifications of  unrelenting  immigration.  They stand blind, deaf, dumb and stupid to the accelerating drama within our civilization.

At the current rate of legal and illegal immigration, plus their children, our country will watch the addition of 72 million immigrants, mostly from third world countries within 24 years.    Do you get that?  Do you comprehend the ramifications of that number?  Do you appreciate the environmental impact?  Can you even engage an infinitesimal understanding of the sociological impact?  How about the cultural impact?  Have you give any moment to the quality of life impact of adding 72 million immigrants?  How about the U.S. standard of  living impact?  How about water, energy, species extinction and pollution impact?  How about carbon footprint as well as ecological footprint?

To verify what I write about, visit Dr. Steven Camarata at www.cis.org in Washington DC.  He states that, “1.3 million legal immigrants arrive annually into the United States.  In turn, they birth 900,000 babies annually.”

Additionally, 800,000 illegal alien migrants successfully breach our borders annually according to the U.S. Border Patrol.  That includes 350,000 to 400,000 pregnant women that birth anchor babies.   About 80 percent of them arrive from Mexico, but realize that Mexico doubled from 50 million to 104 million in the last century.  They expect to add another 35 to 40 million by mid century. Thus, the line of Mexicans starving or suffering for a better life in the USA grows ever larger and more desperate.

Note: I am not counting 450,000 H-1B, H-2B and L-1 visas given to foreign workers as green card holders, which I leave out because no one cares a twit about their impact—certainly not the Congress or the average citizen.

Those Americans stand angry at 15 million unemployed and 42 million subsisting on food stamps, but they remain too disengaged to connect the dots as to what causes their predicament, i.e., unending immigration and outsourcing of jobs via our U.S. Congress!

Thus, we import a total of  1.3 million + 900,000 babies+ 800,000 illegal migrants for a grand total of 3.0 million annually.  If you take that number since 2008 when we reached 300 million people and multiply it out to 2035—that equals 81 million added immigrants and their children.   If you take that figure from 2011, you will understand that we  shall reach an added 72 million  immigrants within the next 24 years.

“US Population Projections” by Fogel/Martin www.fairus.org show us adding 138 million  people by 2050.

Does anyone understand that 72 million third world immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia, India,  Sudan, Congo,  Nigeria, Kenya, China, Mexico, Honduras, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sudan, Morocco—arrive from cultures of illiteracy and poverty.  What one word defines a third world culture?  What keeps it poor?  What keeps it starving?  What makes it so bad that no hope can be realized?  Answer: culture, illiteracy, and babies!   Those countries grow their poverty at a rate of 80 million added net gain annually.

Yet, we think we can absorb their exploding numbers by immigrating  in excess of 3.0 million annually.  Let Roy Beck show you exactly what that means with his five minute video: “Immigration, poverty and Gum Balls.”  It will show you what we’re in for:  In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

Renowned economist Mike Folkerth said, “I believe that within 20 years, America will have been reduced to permanent 3^rd world status. And, all because the human mind is not wired to grasp the provable statement, “Exponential growth in finite world is physically impossible.”

Poverty begets poverty!  Do you understand that today, in our major cities, high school students drop out at a rate of 7,000 per day, or 1 student every 26 seconds, as reported by Brian Williams at NBC?    What did I say defines a third world country?  Answer: illiteracy, culture, babies.  Heavily immigrant overwhelmed Detroit, Michigan suffers a 76 percent high school dropout/flunkout rate.  Los Angeles runs 60 to 70 percent dropout rates.  Need I say more?

We cannot stay abreast of the sheer numbers of  culturally poor immigrants or their children.  We cannot sustain our civilization as to education, medical or standard of living.  The only direction we can go: down and still further down.   Don’t believe me?  Take a look at this 10 minute video again by Roy Beck:  “Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a word “Mind boggling!”  www.NumbersUSA.org

Fellow Americans, if I were president of the United States and if I led the U.S. Congress—I would suspend all immigration immediately.   We cannot sustain another 72 or 81 million immigrants culturally, environmentally, medically, resources, energy, pollution or otherwise.

I cannot do this myself. I need your help.  I  need to carry this message to “60 Minutes” ; “Charlie Rose” ; “Good Morning America” ; “Today Show” ; “Bill Moyers” ; and a hundred other TV, radio and print media. You need to email those media outlets and demand they address the immigration equation.  Folks, we stand in nostril-deep water greater than anyone understands.

We either collectively stop mass immigration into this civilization, or it’s a guaranteed fact, that we won’t survive the approaching “Perfect Storm” of environmental, cultural, linguistic, energy or quality of life  ‘waves’ screaming toward us—while our options degrade as our numbers rise.

Just as Galileo told the Pope—that the Earth revolves around the sun—and not vice versa—I know I am correct.  I invite you to engage your senators, mayors, governors, House members and media to engage the most important issue of our time.

If we allow that 81 million added immigrants and on to 138 million people to manifest their numbers in our country—I feel sorry for future generations because as a world traveler in the third world, I’ve already seen what’s coming—and it anguishes me to no end.

If we wait, if we ponder, that 100 million will manifest in our country in a blink of an eye.  Once it happens, our children become victims of our apathy and our stupidity.

Canada Cannot Afford Unending Population Growth: Environment, Energy, Quality of Life

Overpopulation in Canada will prove THE single greatest issue facing Canadians in the 21^st century.  Continued population overloading degrades your environment, standard of living and quality of life.  It shreds natural animal habitat creating mass extinctions, degrades water systems and accelerates global climate destabilization.

Nothing good can come from endless Canadian population growth!  Scientists and environmentalist warn of our approaching predicaments as to “Peak Oil” ; “Peak Water” ; “Peak resources” ; “Peak Animal Extinctions” ; and “Peak Climate destabilization” –SO evident in areas like Australia, Brazil, China and many other places now being swept by uncommon storms.

“We must alert and organize the world’s people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises – exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Over-consumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.”   Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Oceanographer

Several Canadian writers that promote endless population growth engage the fallacy of, “The real challenge is in improved management and sharing of dwindling resources and the skilful maintenance of a stressed environment. “  Fat chance to skillfully ‘guide’ storms like Katrina or what hit Brazil last week!

Harvard scholar and biologist Dr. E.O. Wilson reputes that naïve statement with:

“The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct.  To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.”

Canadian leaders and citizens may ignore such environmental problems, but those accelerating predicaments will not ignore anyone in Canada—plant, animal or humans.  I find it irresponsible at the highest levels when journalists promote endless population growth, or that they think things will be ‘all right’ when the human race levels off at 9.2 billion in 40 years.  We currently add 1.0 billion humans every 13 years.

They neglect to talk about massive destruction of Earth’s climate systems along the way.  They refuse to address in excess of 80 to 100 species suffering extinction DAILY around the planet.  (Source: Oxford University professor Norman Meyer, UK)  They fail to understand water shortages and water contamination by human abuse of the environment via population growth.   They lack understanding of such disastrous phenomena as the three million tons of floating plastic in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” west of Vancouver from humans tossing 2.5 million pieces of plastic every hour around the globe into the oceans.  Marine life deaths and contamination run into the millions.

They ignore that such civilizations as China, India, Mexico and Bangladesh suffer enormous problems ‘because’ they failed to stabilize their populations 50 years ago.  Once manifested, all their citizens suffer the misery of human population overload.

Why?  Why would Canadians run themselves into a Faustian Bargain that leads to Hobson’s Choice?    Why sell your souls for immediate gain but long term loss for your children.  Why race toward Hobson’s Choice where you enjoy only two choices. Door number “1” allows you to walk through it and over a cliff.  Door number “2” allows you to walk through and into quick sand.   What’s the point of  committing Canada to such a horrific future already manifested by two to three billion people around this overcrowded planet?

Canadians must ask themselves whether or not they can keep immigrating themselves into Hobson’s Choice and why.

“Most Western elites continue urging the wealthy West not to stem the migrant tide [that adds 80 million net gain annually to the planet], but to absorb our global brothers and sisters until their horrid ordeal has been endured and shared by all—ten billion humans packed onto an ecologically devastated planet.” Dr. Otis Graham, Unguarded Gates

Every Canadian reading this column will be nodding his or her head right about now.  I write about reality and common sense.  I write about what I have seen around the world in my bicycle travels.  I can state unequivocally, Canada does not want to repeat what China, India, Mexico and Bangladesh did to themselves, not now, not ever.   Canadian citizens warrant a sustainable and environmentally balanced future.

At some point, we need to consider our fellow creatures on this planet:

“Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth’s carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out, starved out, and squeezed out of existence.. thanks to technologies that most people, I’m afraid, think of as technologies of peace. I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.” Daniel Quinn

Canadian citizens need to speak up for Canada’s future, for its children, for it wilderness, for its animals and for its viability.  It needs to lead by example, not by promoting endless population growth that leads to endless consequences on multiple levels.  Canadians either make choices today or severe and harsher choices will be made for you in the future.

Part 4: The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration—No accountability

The mainstream media rarely reports on the ‘victimless crime’ of illegal immigration.  Therefore, I interviewed Peter Wagner, Denver, Colorado in order to gain a greater understanding as to what happens to Americans that become victims of criminal illegal aliens.  www.darksideofillegalimmigration.com

“The following estimate of illegal alien crime is based on the aforementioned assumptions,” said Wagner.   “Thus we start with the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), Crime in the United States (CIUS) 2005, for the Estimated Number of Arrests and then apply the 5% representation of the illegal alien population component as well as the 27% incarceration rate in federal prisons to the number of crimes reported by the FBI from actual arrests.  What we then get an estimation of how much crime was committed by arrested illegal aliens in 2005 as follows:

CRIMES (actual arrests)	Number	5% rate	27% rate
Total	14,094,186	704,709	3,805,430
Murder & non-negligent manslaughter	14,062	703	3,797
Forcible rape	25,528	1,276	6,893
Offenses against family & children	129,128	6,456	34,865

“Note how close the number of crimes committed in 2005 using the 27% incarceration rate participation is to the estimated number of crimes committed by currently incarcerated illegal aliens is.  Is this coincidental or actually an accurate representation of disproportionate participation?  Once arrested one would think the government would want to know if the perpetrator was a citizen or a foreign national but, unbelievably, that is not tracked so, again, nobody knows.

“However, this is not all the crime – only crime where somebody was actually arrested.  To find all the crime you need to go the Department of Justice’s report Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005 Statistical Tables which reports nearly every possible aspect of the crime being committed in the USA, with two notable exceptions.

“Using the Justice Department’s data and applying the illegal alien 5% population component as well as the 27% incarceration rate in federal prisons, we can now get an estimation of how much crime was actually committed in 2005 by illegal aliens as follows:

CRIMES (victimization)	Number In USA	5% rate	27% rate
Total	23,440,720	1,172,036	6,328,994
Crimes of violence	5,394,590	269,730	1.456,539
Murder & Manslaughter (from CIUS)	16,692	835	4,507
Rape/Sexual assault	194,580	9,729	52,537

“Similar collateral damage would have been inflicted in 2006 and you can expect a about as much in 2007.  Whether you use the 5%, the 27%. or an average of the two, this is a tremendous amount of crime from an identifiable demographic segment of the population.

Is this much crime acceptable to save ten cents on a head of lettuce?

“You probably wouldn’t think so if you were one of the 1,172,036 victims, let alone one of the 6,328,994 victims.

“Keep in mind, this is an approximation of the collateral damage being inflicted PER YEAR.  If the number of illegal aliens is greater than 15 million the number of crimes goes up on a straight percentage of the population participation basis.  If there is disproportional participation, as noted by the 27% rate for incarcerated illegal aliens, the number of crimes goes up.  Regardless, even at just a 5% participation rate, that is a lot of crime that never should have happened in the first place.

“In trying to figure out who is actually committing the crimes, what the foreign national participation is, and whether illegal aliens are committing 5% of the crime based on their representation in the population or if they really are committing 27% of the crime, an astounding 5.4 times more participation than representation, we need to look at the sources for reporting the crime.  However, in doing this we soon run into problems.

“As noted in The Tarpit blog, Hispanics/Latinos, by far the largest component of illegal aliens, become “White, Caucasian, or Other” perpetrators inArizona.  The same thing in Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, New Mexico, and probably other states as well.  As previously alluded to, even the Justice Department doesn’t seem to want to know as neither the nationality of the perpetrator nor a Hispanic/Latino category is even present in either theirUniform Crime Reports (UCR) or Victims and Offenders Supplement.

“The Justice Department collects quite a lot of data on crime, including the Hispanic ethnicity of victims, but they do not report on any contributions to crime by Hispanic perpetrators.  While not all illegal aliens are Hispanic, all illegal aliens are foreign nationals.  After spending a few hours wading through various reports from the Justice Department I still could not find mention of either category.  Given the massive amount of crime being committed I found it strange that it was not being tracked, especially crimes committed on American soil by foreign nationals, legal or illegal.”

In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director ofwww.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck

This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a word “Mind boggling!”  www.NumbersUSA.org

If any of us, no matter what our race, creed or color might be, refuse to engage our U.S. Congress as we have not for 30 years as to the population/immigration equation-our children will find themselves living in a terribly degraded America where the American Dream will be described by the history books as a ‘fleeting fantasy’ from the era of 1950 to 2010.

These are several of the top organizations where you can take collective action to change the course of American history as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. Take collective action at:

This is the best website to start:  www.numbersusa.org ; watch Roy Beck’s “Immigration by the Numbers” at 14 minutes. Bi-partisan and very effective. Become a faxer of pre-written letters to your reps to make positive  change.

U.S. to add 138 million people within 40 years

As Dr. Albert Bartlett www.albartlett.org, University of Colorado, said, “Any entity that grows beyond maturity suffers obesity or cancer.”  That applies to persons, companies, cities and civilizations!  Examples abound throughout history.  Yet, in the 21^st century, American corporations engineer growth, command expansion and celebrate their own cancerous growth paths.  Along the way, no one accounts for or concerns themselves with environmental devastation on multiple levels.

In October 2006, the United States reached 300 million people.  In four short years, the USA hit 312.7 million at the end of 2010.  Within 25 years, it will hit 400 million and onward toward 438 million by 2050.

Since the American female averaged 2.03 children since 1970, it’s not US citizens creating the human overpopulation dilemma.  So, what causes America’s overpopulation thrust?

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, Dr. Steven Camarata, www.cis.org , offered the following figures:

• Immigration accounted for three-quarters of population growth during the decade. Census Bureau data found 13.1 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) who arrived in the last 10 years; there were also about 8.2 million births to immigrant women during the decade.
• The numerical increase of 27.3 million this decade is exceeded by only two other decades in American history.
• Without a change in immigration policy, the nation is projected to add roughly 30 million new residents each decade for the foreseeable future.
• Assuming the current ratio of population to infrastructure, adding roughly 30 each decade will mean:
  • building and paying for 8,000 new schools every 10 years;
  • developing land to accommodate 11.5 million new housing units every 10 years;
  • constructing enough roads to handle 23.6 million more vehicles every 10 years.
  • Ecological footprint of 19.4 acres destroyed for every added person.  Add 130 to 138 million people X’s 19.4 acres will equal devastation of the natural world.

• While our country obviously can ‘fit’ more people, and technology and planning can help manage the situation, forcing such high population growth through immigration policy has profound implications for the environment, traffic, congestion, sprawl, water quality, and the loss of open spaces.
• Forcing population growth also impacts how our democracy functions. A 27 million increase in the U.S. population increases the number of constituents a member of the US House must serve by 62,000. The effect on the state legislatures and local governments is also considerable.
• While immigration is making our population much larger and our country more densely settled, it has only a modest impact on slowing the aging of our society. It must be remembered that native-born Americans, unlike couples in most other developed countries, still have about 2 children on average.
• Census Bureau data collected earlier this year showed that the 13.1 million immigrants who arrived in the last 10 years, plus all of the children they had once in the country, have reduced the average age in the United States slightly, from 37.4 years to 36.8 years.
• As the Census Bureau stated in its population projections published in 2000, immigration is a ‘highly inefficient’ means for addressing the problem of an aging society in the long run. The updated projections done in 2008 show the same thing.

Not discussed in the Main Stream Media as if it remains the “last taboo”, at some point, our environment cannot and will not tolerate continued overload.  These figures portend a tenuous future for people living in the United States in 2050.  Once manifested, such a huge population will be subject to greater environmental consequences and diminished freedoms.

Setting the stage for America’s degradation—anachronistic thinking

Part 2…

“The problems in the world today cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them.” Einstein

How can America entertain, feed, water, house and warm another 100 million people added by 2035—a scant 25 years from now?  Answer: it can’t and it won’t!

When Einstein’s quote hits home, it allows you to step out of third world and 20th century thinking by advancing toward a 21^st century paradigm shift. Once you connect the dots, you will not be able to go back to old thinking or ancient solutions. Why? Because they guarantee failure!

Therefore, such terms as ‘sustainable growth’ and ‘economic growth’ prove oxymorons that bring our “Population Katrina” ashore much faster. If we continue on our current disastrous path, our country will reach China’s one billion by the end of this century, or within the lifetime of your grandchildren. Have you ever asked yourself why there is no Chinese Dream or why no one wants to emigrate to China or why millions of Chinese risk life and limb to reach America and Canada? Why do Indians rush to our shores but no one rushes to India? What about Bangladesh with 157 million people in a landmass the size of Ohio? Would you like to move to that hellhole? In other words, how would you like to live in California when it doubles from 38 million to 76 million? The prevailing question will be, “Hey buddy, do you have a drink of water you can spare me?”

One way or the other, if we maintain this unrestricted immigration path, we will manifest what immigrants from the third world flee. Would you call China, India, Japan or Bangladesh racists, xenophobic or other names because they don’t allow immigration?  Why don’t they?  Too many people already!

“The modern plague of overpopulation is solvable by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not the sufficient knowledge of the solution, but the universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem for billions of people who are its victims.” Dr. Martin Luther King

Think what you will of King, but he hit target with his speech when he received the Human Rights Award in 1966.

“Each person in the USA has an impact on the environment equal to as low as 10 and as high as 33 in a third world nation. Therefore, the US population as 295 million is equal in many ways to a minimum of 2.9 billion people in environmental impact.” National Academy of Sciences

If you can’t or won’t see that impending reality, you imitate the ones looking out to sea in New Orleans in 2005 and you hoped the winds would die down or Katrina would change course. I am here to tell you that this population storm will not change course. We must change direction if we are to save ourselves.

“Sustainable growth is a self-contradictory concept beloved by those who want to continue the same old stands—growth as a solution to all problems—very few people grasp the simple fact—demographic or economic growth is unsustainable.” Lindsey Grant, author of TOO MANY PEOPLE

“Climate change will have a devastating effect on the availability of water in the Western United States. Even as best-case scenario, it forecasts a virtual train wreck, with supplies falling far short of the projected future demands for water by cities, farms and wildlife.” Andrew Bridges, Science Writer for AP

You may argue Malthus’ theme all you want, but the facts demand your attention that we don’t have enough water to keep growing in the West. Arizona’s aquifers suffer horrific drainage and it’s so dry you can’t spit. California offers bottled water because tap water is unsafe and it is fast becoming as expensive as gasoline. Any fool can see it coming, but most governors refuse to look at or deal with the reality of limits. It is Hurricane Katrina-like thinking, i.e., maybe if we ignore it—IT will go away.

“If we don’t persuade Congress to lower immigration to traditional levels of 175,000 per year, we’ll condemn Americans to lives of increasing sprawl, congestion and economic failure.” Roy Beck, author of “IMMIGRATION BY THE NUMBERS” In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself

I know and respect Roy Beck to the highest degree. I urge every American to join www.NumbersUSA.org and become a weekly faxer of prewritten letters. What can you argue about his quote? Absolutely nothing! These people have connected the dots and we must join them for the future of our country, our children and the world.

“Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from the microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?” Dr. Albert Bartlett, Professor of Physics, Colorado University

Go ahead, name one! If you do come up with one, make your point with reason knowing that 6.8 billion humans already wreak havoc already and over 18 million deaths from starvation annually already occur. I’d welcome your email giving me a good reason for more population growth after you’ve read this two part series. In the meantime, I know Dr. Bartlett and he is on par with Einstein in intellect.

Setting the stage for America’s degraded future—population impact

Part 1…

By writing about severe consequences heading, like a Hurricane Katrina, toward not just New Orleans five years ago, but every state in America–readers chastise me. They question past titles like, ‘Consequences of Too Many People; ‘Too Many People, Too Few Solutions; and ‘America’s Coming Overpopulation Crisis’. They feel the columns’ themes did not apply to them or wouldn’t happen to them. They are correct—it won’t happen to them—it will happen to their children.

If our nation keeps thinking like the people of New Orleans–that it won’t happen to them–think again. Look at millions living in the earthquake arena of California. It is not a question of if, but when the 9.5 scale quake hits. New Orleans was not a question of if, but when. Same goes for those living in Florida’s hurricane alley. If you travel west, you see people building homes on the cliffs of California when contractors told them that rains would cause slides. They built anyway and look what happened the last two years during the rainy season. What about those building in fire areas of California? Did you not see their homes burn in the past two years?

What I seek to convey to the American public stems from my bicycle travels on six continents and through the most densely populated countries of the world. I’ve seen the misery, suffering, debasement of human living conditions and I’ve witnessed that once human numbers exceeded carrying capacity, all life suffers. Examine China, India, Africa and Bangladesh for starters. They grow worse by the day. They can’t solve their numbers once manifested.

Several readers ask if I follow Thomas Malthus’ “Essay on the Principle of Population,” or, they don’t agree with me based on the size of the United States. Many who pursue a religious course, say “God will provide.”  What they neglect to realize is, according to the March 14, 2005, issue of Time Magazine, 18 million people starve to death around the planet annually. Therefore, it is not an issue of Malthus or God; it is an issue of a growing reality that humanity is outstripping the planet’s ability to feed, water and clothe the growing ‘human storm’ on this planet.

More sobering, humans add 80 million net gain annually on our way from 6.8 billion to 9.8 (high estimate by Population Reference Bureau and supporting estimates by www.balance.org and www.npg.org) billion around 2050.

Anyone can live in denial all they want, but like Hurricane Katrina, reality will strike when the storm hits. In other words, those that scoff at me can sit back just like five days before Katrina hit, and drink coffee on the back porch. But when it hits and you didn’t evacuate, you become one of the victims. And, as Time and Newsweek graphically reported, our children. We failed the most innocent of all by our lack of action.

In this two part column, I quote many brilliant people who know this ‘population Katrina storm’ heads our way. At the end, I add my own quote to the fast approaching crisis of overpopulation.

When I talk about the crisis of overpopulation in America, plenty of already manifested realities sober any rational mind. The quality of our lives deteriorates daily as we add three million people annually to our shores. The standard of living drops like a brick with millions of added people. But let me quote those who know more and are the leaders from the past and present.

“We must prevent human tragedy rather than run around trying to save ourselves after an event has already occurred. Unfortunately, history clearly shows that we arrive at catastrophe by failing to meet the situation, by failing to act when we should have acted. The opportunity passes us by and the next disaster is always more difficult and compounded than the last one.” Eleanor Roosevelt

You may not like Eleanor, but her words ring true. What if former President George Obama had been a competent president and installed a competent man as director of FEMA? Instead, he appointed an incompetent man, Mike Brown, who was fired from a ten year job as president of an Arabian horse association. How was he supposed to lead a major federal agency with his ‘good ole boy’ connections? Obama’s ineptness and his own incompetence expressed itself in Brown who manifested incompetence before and during Katrina.

We must endure two more years of Obama’s lack of understanding of our predicament. Obama manifests the “Peter Principle” (most persons in corporate America rise to their highest level of incompetence; once there, they make everyone under them miserable, and they can’t grab the reins). Obama lacks the intellectual or cognitive ability to grow out of his incompetence.

Eleanor stands right on the money and we will pay the consequences for such observable incompetence as Obama muddles through his last two years. When it comes to the immigration invasion of three million people crashing onto our shores annually, Obama doesn’t have a clue as to the critical impact and danger to future generations due to sheer numbers.  He’s like a blind watchmaker.

So what do other brighter minds say about the worsening crisis of overpopulation in America?

“Immigration of the kind and on the scale America has had for the last three decades is in effect, a recipe for cultural suicide and squandering of a rich national heritage.” Dr. Lee Marland

Look at that quote and tell me you don’t feel it in your community with all the illegal aliens and non absorbing legal immigrants who can’t and won’t speak English, but use and abuse our system for their own purposes. Tell me you think our country can continue, with dozens of other languages and Stone Age cultures that don’t assimilate into what is America as a First World country.

“The two-generation indirect immigration, i.e., including the births to foreign-born mothers, explained the incredible 98 percent of California’s growth between 1990 and 2000.” Dr. Leon Bouvier

Anyone want to move to the beautiful Los Angeles area anytime soon? I would need my head examined for sanity if I wanted to move into that grinding traffic, three million illegal aliens and nine million legal immigrant quagmire. Immigration provoked growth from 17 million in 1965 to over 38 million today. They suffer gridlock, air pollution, crime, disease, mountains of trash, Mexico’s slums and a non English speaking populace, which is more anti-American than Castro.

As you sit reading this column, are the lights turning on? Are you connecting the dots? Do you see the growing calamity about to visit, possibly not you, but definitely your children here in the once limitless USA? Exploding gas prices present harbingers of our future. Air pollution grows thicker with every added person. Farmland diminishes as  asphalt and concrete cover it. I spent the summer bicycling 4,000 miles across the USA. Gas costs $3.00 a gallon.

In Europe, gas costs $6.00 a gallon and as high as $8.00 a gallon in places. Forests have vanished under farmland. People live, not in homes, but are stuffed into apartments. They drive automobiles that feature only two doors for the driver and passenger and their feet are almost touching the bumper of the Smart cars—that look like upside down teacups. If you crash, sorry, you’re toast.

In the second part of this series, we will pursue the growing realities of ignoring the current population growth of America at five million annually. When you take five million and multiply by 60 years, you add 300 million or a doubling of the US population from 295 million to 600 million. If you think the gridlock, air pollution, acid rain, diminishing cropland, congestion, failing health systems, global warming, species extinction is bad now, you ain’t seen nothing yet! In other words, Population Katrina will hit all 50 states in 2035. But even before that date, it will degrade all our lives with too many people, shrinking freedoms, diminished resources, water wars, diseases, maddening traffic and worsening air pollution.

I’m going to add my quote to all these other people. THE MORE EXTREME OUR NUMBERS, THE MORE EXTREME OUR CHILDREN’S CONSEQUENCES.

Unless, of course, you decide to get involved in your children’s future.

Efficiency and Jobs

Almost everyone concerned with the future of humanity and concerned about the usage of the resources the earth can provide to humanity in the future assumes that environmentalism and technology will reduce the resources used by humanity in the future. They are just plain wrong. Environmentalism and technology will not cause a reduction in resource usage. In fact, it is highly likely that every technological advance will cause an increase in the usage of resources.

Assume that instead of getting 20 miles per gallon an automobile gets 40 miles per gallon. Based on that assumption there are two possibilities—a) Drive the same number of miles and save money due to using less gas (say save $500.00 for the year): b) Since it is now cheaper to go some place due to better gas mileage, increase the miles driven to offset the increase in miles per gallon. I will not discuss a combination of the two possibilities (save some money, but less than $500.00 and drive more miles, but less than the amount necessary to offset the gas savings cost) as the combination doesn’t change the analysis below.

If the car were driven twice the number of miles, the total gas usage would be the same, but the usage of other resources would be increased—the car would wear out sooner, more tires would be used, more pollutants would be put into the atmosphere, roads would wear out sooner, etc. If the same number of miles were driven and $500.00 were saved, what could the owner of the car do with the $500.00 saved? The car owner could either save the money and put it into the bank or spend the money. (Again, a combination of saving some of the money and spending some of the money doesn’t change the points set forth below.) If the car owner spent the money by buying something, say a few additional shirts, that purchase would increase the usage of resources—grow more cotton or make more artificial fabric to make the shirts, build a factory to make them. buy sewing machines, use electric to run the sewing machines, transportation to transfer the shirts from the factory to the store, etc. If the car owner saved the $500.00 and put it into the bank, the bank would lend that money out. The bank could not keep that money for an extended period of time without lending it out to earn money and pay the depositor interest. The bank would lower the interest rate it charged its customers until someone borrowed that $500.00. The borrower would not borrow that money to put it under his mattress. The borrower would borrow that money to build something or expand his/her business. If the borrower used that money to build something or expand his/her business, that would expand the economy as a whole and would use more resources. The only way for resources to be saved would be for the owner of the car to flush the $500.00 saved down the toilet and the car owner is not going to do that. In simple terms and after considering all the choices, increasing the miles per gallon will not reduce the total amount of resources used by humanity and in fact will probably increase the total amount of resources used–drive some additional miles and spend some of the savings on new purchases which would expand the economy as a whole and thereby increase the usage of resources.

What I have described in the paragraph above is known as the “Jevons Paradox” (also known as the “Jevons Effect”) or something very similar, the “Khazzoom-Brookes Postulate”. ( Both of these items can be researched on the internet by the use of any research engine.) Increased energy efficiency tends to increase energy consumption by two means–a) Increased energy efficiency makes the use of energy relatively cheaper, thus encouraging increased use; and b) Increased energy efficiency leads to increased economic growth, which pulls up energy use for the whole economy. While in its original form the Jevons Paradox was limited to energy efficiency, the concept can be applied, as indicated above, to the increase in efficiency in any resource.

Let us now look at the addition jobs the economy of the USA and the entire world will have to provide by the year 2050. According to the best estimates the population of the USA will go from the current (2010) population of 308 to 430 million in 2050, an increase of 122 million. If we make the reasonable assumption that on average a family unit will consist of four people, there will be an increase of 30,500,000 family units. If we make the further assumption that each family unit will require, on average, 1 and 1/2 jobs, then 45,750, 000 jobs will have to be created in the USA between 2010 and 2050. The monthly average increase in jobs (40 years equals 480 months and 45,750,000 divided by 480 equals 95,312.5) which the economy of the USA will be required to produce is in excess of 95,000. Applying the same type of logic to the entire planet, the population is expected to increase by 2.4 billion from 6.8 to 9.2 billion; if we assume for the entire planet that on average a family unit will consist of five people, 480 million family units will be created during the period of 40 years from 2010 to 2050; and if we assume that only one job per family unit is required, then 480 million jobs will be necessary. This works out to one million jobs per month, on average, over the next 40 years will be required. While we can argue about the assumptions I made in this paragraph, I don’t believe that anyone can dispute that the assumptions are in the “reasonable’ range and the results I obtained are in the “ball park”.

If either the USA or the entire world’s economy cannot provide the number of jobs set forth in the previous paragraph (and they must be jobs that permit a family to survive and provide a certain standard of living), then substantial social unrest will occur. The number of jobs provided will determine the level of social unrest or if the social order is destroyed. The question becomes how many jobs can the USA and the entire world’s economy provide over the next 480 months? I personally do not feel optimistic, but I leave the answer to that question to the economists. However, to date, I have not read anything written by a reputable economist that the required number of jobs can be produced nor have I read anything that the earth can provide the resources necessary for that number of new jobs. The US election of November 2, 2010 showed the social unrest unemployment can cause.

Has the American Dream come to an end?

“For generations, parents have told their children about “The American Dream.” Basically it has meant building a life based on the foundational principles that created and have sustained America for more than 200 years.”

Greater than any other country in the modern world, the United States offered, from 1776 to 2010, unprecedented opportunities to the common citizen to manifest the “American Dream.” Every resident enjoys the choices of  “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

How do you define the American Dream?  Basically, it allows average citizens to enjoy higher education, greater choices and fulfillment of  their personal goals.  Those aspirations allow farm boys to play in the New York Philharmonic, or a Texas kid to sing the National Anthem in Yankee Stadium, or a poor black girl like Oprah Winfrey to become a movie star, fabulously rich and the host of the Oprah Show.  She educates and enlightens millions around the world.  It allows inner-city ghetto kids like O.J. Simpson to gain stardom, money and a mega-wealthy home—only to sit in prison for his transgressions.

It allows men like Bernie Madoff to rise to astonishing wealth only to fall into disgrace and prison.  The American Dream allows a poor white kid like Abe Lincoln to rise to the presidency as well as an illegitimate black kid like Barack Obama to sit in the White House in 2010.  The American Dream allows anyone with fortitude, integrity, drive and creative talents to chase their dreams.

For example: how could a poor boy step off the farm in the 1950s, graduate from college, become a teacher, and move on to live a life of adventure?  How could he jump on a bicycle and ride it 100,000 miles across six continents and seven times coast-to-coast across America?  How could a kid enjoy such an amazing life that Marco Polo or Captain Cook would envy?  How could he write 10 books with more on the way?   How could he speak up against his own government and fight for what’s right and not get thrown into political prison?  I don’t know, but I am that kid.  I must pinch myself because it all gets down to the luck of my birth and country of origin.

If you look around the planet, you will not see the “Indian Dream” ; “China Dream” ; “Mexican Dream” ; “Bangladesh Dream” or “African Dream.”  In those places—poverty, death, disease, famine, few choices and a pretty unfortunate life experience await many human beings.

For that matter in my 40 years of world travel, only about 15 countries allow their citizens the ability to make enough money to travel the planet.  The rest of humanity scratches out a living.

But, I am willing to bet, that for the United States, the American Dream will turn out to be a brief fantasy in the history of our country, ending circa 2010 or so.  Our own leaders bankrupted our government, defrauded future generations with $13 trillion in debt, forced us into useless and immoral wars like Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan; they sold the American people downstream by shipping our entire manufacturing foundation and mercantile goods to other countries.   We suffer a mind-numbing 41.8 million Americans subsisting on food stamps. Another 15 million stand in unemployment lines and seven million cannot procure a full time job.  Our country and its citizens morph into a welfare state.  Personal accountability and personal responsibility—die in the schools of America where Black, White and Hispanic kids flunk out of high school at 7,000 per day—over 1.2 million annually.  A record 72 percent of black teens give birth to children without fathers—and live off the backs of taxpaying Americans—without giving it a second thought as they birth two, three and more babies.

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” — Isaac Asimov

Is the American Dream dead?  I submit that it staggers on life-support and the final diagnosis may prove unfortunate.

Charleston Tea Party writer KC said, “We have created a new definition of “The American Dream”. It has nothing to do with values and principles, but has everything to do with “stuff”.   Is the goal an accumulation of possessions? If that’s the case, then our nation of bureaucratic welfare recipients should be the happiest, most fulfilled people the world has ever produced. Instead Prozac, valium and therapists abound. Suicide is an epidemic and we are engaged in major sociological soul searching to find fulfillment in this wealthy but empty lifestyle.”

As I learned in my travels—as human numbers climb into the millions and billions in any civilization, human options diminish and degrade.  As human numbers grow—options and freedoms shrink.  As human numbers accelerate, everything degrades from standard of living to quality of life.  And, once enormous populations manifest—everyone lives in tense toleration, intimidation and diminished opportunities.  Can this country survive the next added 100 million Americans manifesting via immigration within 25 years?

Bill Moyers asked the question to write Isaac Asimov, “What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human species if population growth continues at its present rate?”

“It will be completely destroyed,” said Asimov. “I will use what I call my bathroom metaphor. Two people live in an apartment and there are two bathrooms, then both have the freedom of the bathroom. You can go to the bathroom anytime you want, and stay as long as you want, for whatever you need. Everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the Constitution. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in the freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, “Aren’t you through yet?” and so on.

“The same way democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies. The more people there are the less one individual matters.”

From my world traveling perspective, the American Dream will not survive what’s coming.

The Tremendous Dangers of The Dream Act

If not enough that 15 million Americans suffer unemployment and another seven million cannot find full time jobs—your U.S. Congress led by Senator Harry Reid, re-elected by the most unemployed per capita population of all 50 states, introduced the Dream Act once again after it suffered defeat every year since 2000. If 41.8 million Americans subsisting on food stamps doesn’t send a message to Harry Reid, I cannot for the life of me, understand how an intellectual imbecile like Reid enjoyed re-election from a brain-dead Nevada electorate. Same goes for the California ‘vacant brains’ that voted Nancy Pelosi back into office!

Both states’ congressional members fail miserably at serving their own citizens: California protects over 4.5 million illegal aliens while drowning in $25 billion in debts. Nevada suffers incredible destruction of their schools, hospitals and work force via hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.

After offering you director Roy Beck’s two educational five and 10 minute videos last week, I will offer them again at the end of this column. I hope you send those two videos out to every American across the Internet to educate them as to what we face as we allow our country to be invaded by legal and illegal immigration. Out of the projected 100 million people added to this country within 25 years, a full 70 million will be third world immigrants with third world cultures, educational levels equal to Haiti’s and cultural practices totally incompatible with our first world countries. We create an intractable ‘poverty class’ that will undermine our citizens, our children, our language and our culture. It’s already in full swing in all our immigrant-laden cities where welfare gives them everything off our backs: annual costs run $346 billion. (Source: www.thesocialcontract.com with Edwin Rubenstein Report)

In the second video, you will see where Beck shows our immigration-driven population more than triple by the end of the century as we head toward a billion persons from a line that grows by 1 billion every 13 years around the world. I cannot for the life of me understand how or why Congress or Americans think adding another 300 to 600 million more people to this country will make everything better, i.e., gridlock, air pollution, crowding, gas prices, food prices, species extinction, quality of life, climate destabilization and much more on multiple levels.

Do we enjoy national suicide of our culture, language and way of life? Answer: we must because that’s what we’re doing!

I talked to Roy Beck as to what we face:

“The DREAM ACT amnesty would be another nightmare for beleaguered and unemployed American workers,” said Beck. “Yet, so many national religious, media and political leaders are embarrassing themselves today, crying out for the Lame Duck Congress to pass the DREAM Act amnesty.

“While 22 million Americans who want a full-time job cannot find one, pro-amnesty cheerleaders are making a last-ditch effort to increase competition for jobs by giving millions of work permits to illegal aliens through the DREAM Act.

“Supporters of DREAM continue to mislead the public by talking about a small group of teenaged students who shouldn’t be punished for the sins of their parents who supposedly brought them to the U.S. as young children. In actuality, the bill covers at least 2 million illegal aliens up to age 35 even if they came after childhood, and it allows them to petition for their parents to get permanent work permits.

“The DREAM Act allows the parents who illegally put their children into this status to be rewarded for their behavior.

“And while it adds millions more competitors into the legal U.S. labor force, it does nothing to discourage future millions from entering the U.S. illegally, from putting their children into difficult circumstances, and from harming American workers.

“The DREAM Act is drawn for much too wide of an illegal population, is full of loopholes, is open to massive fraud and would encourage more illegal immigration, all of which would keep millions of Americans and their families unemployed and disadvantaged.

“What kind of a politician would be that callous and destructive to his/her own constituents?

“And what kind of politician would think voters should reward him/her with re-election next time around?”

You can stop the Dream Act by joining www.NumbersUSA.org and become a faxer and phone caller. Join 1 million Americans of every persuasion to stop this national nightmare. It’s easy, free, quick and effective. Bi-partisan!

In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director ofwww.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck

This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a word “Mind boggling!”  www.NumbersUSA.org

In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director ofwww.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck

This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a word “Mind boggling!”  www.NumbersUSA.org

If any of us, no matter what our race, creed or color might be, refuse to engage our U.S. Congress as we have not for 30 years as to the population/immigration equation-our children will find themselves living in a terribly degraded America where the American Dream will be described by the history books as a ‘fleeting fantasy’ from the era of 1950 to 2010.

Media blackout of the population equation in the US

With the accelerating ramifications of overpopulation manifesting all over the United States and the world, why does the Main Stream Media avoid, evade and suppress any mention of the population equation in America?  For that matter—the world!

The United States adds 8,100 people daily and a whopping 3.1 million annually—on its way to adding a net gain of 100 million within 25 years, 138 million within 40 years and it will double to 600 million within 70 years.  Clearly, it races toward its own catastrophe on multiple levels.

California adds 1,700 people daily along with 400 vehicles to its already chocked highways and toxic air.  That state expects to add 20 million within 30 years.  Yet, no one blinks!

While most Americans remain oblivious to our dilemma, Chad Kline of Anchorage, Alaska understands it too clearly.

Chad, why do Americans and their leaders avoid any conversation about overpopulation in their own country?

“I have tried to get this information out on about 10 different radio shows, and every time I am cut-off within seconds.  Nobody would believe the reactions and insane mutterings I get after trying to say this on the radio.  Have the all lost common sense and reason?

“Can population density be so controversial and intolerable of an issue so as to cause schizophrenic behavior at the mere mention of it?  Even to those that preach and espouse freedom, liberty, controversial issues, and freedom-of-speech?

“Ever-increasing population density breeds an ever-increasingly dependent population farther and farther removed from providing for itself without interfering with the lives of others, which breeds ever-increasing authoritarian control-management power structures, which breed ever-increasing rules and regulations and corruption;  because power corrupts … and that aspect of humanity cannot be escaped.

“And people keep wanting more and more of this endlessly self-generating mutilation of freedom and bounty as solutions to the problems these cycles have created in the 1st place, as if more and more of the same hopeless cycles will someday come under the domain of altruistic systems of men that will simultaneously provide freedom and bounty to everyone without limit.

“It’s an impossibility as well as a logical fallacy, because if man was that altruistic and responsible, he wouldn’t have entered into the ever-increasing population-density/dependent-population/authoritarian control-management power structures which have destroyed our freedom and bounty in the 1st place.

“The truth is that only a sovereign independent agrarian people that can pass on the same freedoms and bounty for their children to ensure a future of liberty, clean and plentiful bounty, and private property.

“Jefferson warned us that when our population reaches the densities of Europe, our population will live within the same corrupt systems as Europe.  He understood what I am trying to say.

“At this time, we have a population of idiots that just breeds without care, and then dumps their offspring onto society and tells them to acquire all the resources they need for life in the streets and buildings of cities.   It’s a blatantly absurd and irresponsible behavior that is doomed to despots, desperation, and failure.

“I suggest putting a tattoo dot on the bottom of the left big toe for a 1st child, the right big toe for a 2nd child, and tubes tied after a 3rd.  Simple solution to end all social/resource/freedom issues!  What do people want – 1000 endlessly evolving social ills or 1 simple solution?  Death and lives of suffering results from this irresponsibility, yet preventing it puts more fear into people than the consequences of inaction.”

Basic math of the world’s resources:

REFERENCES:

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Arable_land

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arable_land

Of the earth’s 57.5 million square miles of land, approximately 7.65 million square miles are arable. Figures of 12 million square miles are when the earth’s population was 6 billion (now past 7 billion), and tend to include more semi-arable land. But it’s a marginal difference – 8-12 million square miles. In geography, arable land (from Latin “arare,” to plough) is an agricultural term, meaning land that can be used for growing crops. It is distinct from cultivated land and includes jungles that are not currently used for human purposes.

With the earth population currently approaching 7.65 BILLION people, there is enough land to grow crops for 1000 people per square mile.

In other words:

One square mile = 5280ft x 5280ft, or 1760yds x 1760yds = 42 x 42 yards

For EACH PERSON IN THE WORLD NOW!

And half of that is jungles and other land that would require considerable money and effort to develop, and would do considerable damage to the environment. For example, only about 1/3 of the arable land on the African continent is used for growing crops, but immense tracts of swamps and jungles would have to be cleared to bring the rest of the arable land into productive use.

So, this leaves:

1/2 of 1 square mile = 3733ft x 3733ft, or 1244yds x 1244yds = 30 x 30 yards for EACH PERSON IN THE WORLD NOW!

“And this is not just for food! Consider that most crops need to be grown for housing (trees), living (homes), clothing (cotton), animal feed (corn and grasslands), waste, mineral resources, and many other purposes!

“And arable land is currently being lost at the rate of over 38,610 square miles per year! In addition to new housing, and the expanse of civilization, a major element of arable land loss comes from deforestation (starting in the Middle Ages in Europe as well as Asia). Such deforestation continues to the present day primarily in tropical countries by commercial over-exploitation of tropical forest. At times, deforestation can be so extreme that it leads to desertification, or the total loss of arable land, as has occurred in portions of the central highland plateau of Madagascar following extensive slash-and-burn activity.

“Land which is not arable usually has at least one of the following deficiencies: no source of fresh water; too hot (desert); too cold (arctic); too rocky; too mountainous; too salty; too rainy; too snowy; too polluted; or too nutrient poor. Clouds may also block the sunlight plants need for photosynthesis, reducing productivity. Plants can starve without light. Starvation and nomadism often exists on marginally arable land. Non-arable land is sometimes called wasteland, badlands, worthless or no-man’s land.”

If you don’t understand his figures, research for yourself.

They come to America for a better life

Like the slavery issue of 1776 when the founders framed the U.S. Constitution, 21^st century immigration parallels the complexities of the past—facing today’s leaders and citizens.

Back then, they talked about a wonderful new concept of self-government that yielded, “…life, liberty and pursuit of happiness…,” as long as you did not carry shackles around your neck and feet.

Americans kicked the can down the road for nearly 100 years before the can kicked back.  The American humorist Mark Twain said, “Silent assertion is the shabbiest of all lies. It happens when leaders, the media and church obfuscate, cloud, suppress or deny a social wrong or something not working in our civilization.”

Our ‘silent assertion’ ended up with America ripping itself apart in the Civil War.

Slavery could not continue as an institution.  People died by the hundreds of thousands.  Yet, today, slavery continues in Africa and people continue killing one another.

America repeats this slavery atrocity in America today: illegal immigration!  Rich people and corporations employ poor people at slave wages to the tune of over 10 million of them in 2010 along with another 10 million of their kids and spouses.  Those slave wages beat the misery of Mexican wages and many other countries.  The rich dodge the laws and the poor crawl across American borders to break the law: “I came for a better life for me and my children.”

In violation of the rule of law, we kicked this noisier can down the road for the past 30 years, and someday soon, we will pay for our stupidity, greed and this modern day slavery. The financial costs will exceed $5 trillion according to the Heritage Foundation for any kind of an amnesty for them and their kids.  Once they gain citizenship, they will be able to ‘chain migrate’ millions more of their families.

Why can’t other countries duplicate the simple market dynamics of America to bring their citizens a prosperous way of life?  Why don’t the people of Mexico raise up and vote leaders into office that would serve them instead of force them into another kind of slavery north of the border?

Today, 3.1 billion human beings, according to the World Bank, live on less than $2.00 per day.  Another 2.0 billion live on less than $3.00 per day.  Their numbers grow by over 80 million net gain around the planet annually.  Their poverty grows beyond solving.

You may look close to home at the island of Haiti. It houses 9.5 million, mostly illiterate, culturally poor and completely destitute people even BEFORE the earthquake.   Demographic projections show Haiti adding another 3.1 million within a few decades.

Haiti’s problem?  The Catholic Church advocates against birth control which results in overzealous human fecundity!

Haiti’s land mass?  Less than Rhode Island, our smallest state.  Rhode Island houses 1.05 million people to give you an idea of Haiti’s demographic overshoot.

If given a chance and a boat ticket, the entire 9.5 million humans on the island of Haiti would immigrate to America tomorrow.  If given a plane or boat ticket, a minimum of 3.1 billion humans would immigrate to the land of milk and honey, America, tomorrow.

What’s the problem?  Those folks around the planet in greatest poverty add 80 million of themselves annually on their way to adding two to three billion by mid century.

THE IMMIGRATION LINE GROWS AND NEVER ENDS

What cost to American taxpayers each year?  Try a whopping $346 billion spread out across 15 federal agencies!  (Source: Edwin Rubenstein Report, www.thesocialcontract.com )

What does that reality mean to every American citizen?  I offer you one of the simplest and most brilliant five minute video ever created in this world by Roy Beck.  It explains their dilemma and our predicament.  Watch it and weep!  Watch it and share it with everyone you know to help every citizen in this country understand the mind-boggling futility of further immigration into the USA.

In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director ofwww.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

After you watched Beck’s first video, view this 10 minute video that arrived last week. It’s already enjoyed nearly 1.0 million viewers.   It shows what we face if we continue our current immigration policy.  Out of the next added 100 million people to the USA via mass immigration, a full 70 million will be third world immigrants and their children. Watch it and gasp!  Watch it and learn!  Watch it and share it with everyone you know.

“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck

This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a word “Mind boggling!”  www.NumbersUSA.org

If we fail to change our immigration policy, much like the ‘slavery issue’ of 1776, we most certainly will not survive the outcome as to sheer numbers, as to a livable environment and as to a sustainable civilization.  Today, we can make a difference to change the future for our children.  Within 25 years, if we allow immigration to add 100 million people, our children and all living things in America will be nostril-deep in irreversible consequences and unsolvable problems.

Eastern Europe Versus the Open Society

Excerpts from a speech to the H.L. Mencken Club, Baltimore, October 23, 2010

Two weeks ago the first “gay pride parade” was staged in Belgrade. Serbia’s “pro-European” government had been promoting the event as yet another proof that Serbia is fit to join the European Union, that is has overcome the legacy of its dark, intolerant past. Thousands of policemen in full riot gear had to divide their time between protecting a few hundred “LBGT” activists (about half of them imported from Western Europe for the occasion) and battling ten times as many young protesters in the side streets.

The parade, it should be noted, was prominently attended by the U.S. Ambassador in Belgrade Mary Warlick, by the head of the European Commission Office, Vincent Degert of France, and by the head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Serbia, Dimitris Kipreos. Needless to say, none of them had attended the enthronment of the new Serbian Patriarch a week earlier. Two days later, Hillary Clinton came to Belgrade and praised the Tadic regime for staging the parade.

Mrs. Clinton et al are enjoying the fruits of one man’s two decades of hard work in Eastern Europe. George Soros can claim, more than any other individual, that his endeavors have helped turn the lands of “Real Socialism” in central and eastern Europe away from their ancestors, their cultural and spiritual roots. The process is far from over, but his Open Society Institute and its extensive network of subsidiaries east of the Trieste-Stettin line have successfully legitimized the notions that only two decades ago would have seemed bizarre, laughable or demonic to the denizens of the eastern half of Europe.

The package was first tested here in America. Through his Open Society Institute and its vast network of affiliates Soros has provided extensive financial and lobbying support here for

• Legalization of hard drugs: We should accept that “substance abuse is endemic in most societies,” he says. Thanks to his intervention the terms “medicalization” and “non-violent drug offender” have entered public discourse, and pro-drug legalization laws were passed in California and Arizona in the 90s.
• Euthanasia: In 1994 Soros—a self-professed atheist—launched his Project Death in America (PDIA) and provided $15 million in its initial funding. (It is noteworthy that his mother, a member of the pro-suicide Hemlock Society, killed herself, and that Soros mentions unsympathetically his dying father’s clinging on to life for too long.) PDIA supports physician-assisted suicide and works “to begin forming a network of doctors that will eventually reach into one-fourth of America’s hospitals” and, in a turn of phrase chillingly worthy of Orwell, lead to “the creation of innovative models of care and the development of new curricula on dying.”
• Population replacement: Soros is an enthusiastic promoter of open immigration and amnesty & special rights for immigrants. He has supported the National Council of La Raza, National Immigration Law Center, National Immigration Forum, and dozens of others. He also promotes expansion of public welfare, and in late 1996 he created the Emma Lazarus Fund that has given millions in grants to nonprofit legal services groups that undermine provisions of the welfare legislation ending immigrant entitlements.

Soros supports programs and organizations that further abortion rights and increased access to birth control devices; advocate ever more stringent gun control; and demand abolition of the death penalty. He supports radical feminists and “gay” activists, same-sex “marriage” naturally included. OSI states innocently enough that its objectives include “the strengthening of civil society; economic reform; education at all levels; human rights; legal reform and public administration; public health; and arts and culture,” but the way it goes about these tasks is not “philanthropy” but political activism in pursuit of all the familiar causes of the radical left—and some additional, distinctly creepy ones such as “Death in America.”

Soros’s “philanthropic” activities in America have been applied on a far grander scale abroad. His many foundations say that they are “dedicated to building and maintaining the infrastructure and institutions of an open society.” What this means in practice? Regarding “Women’s Health” programs in Central and South-Eastern Europe, one will look in vain for breast cancer detection programs, or for prenatal or post-natal care. No, Soros’s main goal is “to improve the quality of abortion services.” Accordingly his Public Health Program has focused on the introduction of easily available abortion all over the region, and the introduction of manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) abortion in Macedonia, Moldova, and Russia. Why is Soros so keen to promote more abortions? Overpopulation cannot be the reason: the region is experiencing a huge demographic collapse and has some of the lowest fertility rates in the world. Unavailability of abortions cannot be the answer either: only five European countries had more abortions than live births in 2000: the Russian Federation, Bulgaria, Belarus, Romania and Ukraine. The only answer is that Soros wants as few little European Orthodox Christians born into this world as possible.

Soros’s Public Health Programs additionally “support initiatives focusing on the specific health needs of several marginalized communities,” such as “gays” and AIDS sufferers, and promote “harm reduction” focusing on needle/syringe exchange and supply of methadone to adicts. His outfits lobby governments to scrap “repressive drug policies.” Over the past decade and a half the Soros network has given a kick-start to previously non-existent “gay” activism in almost all of its areas of operation. The campaign for “LGBT Rights” is directed from Budapest, publishing lesbian and gay books in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia, opening Gay and Lesbian Centers in Ukraine and Rumania. Its activists routinely attack the Orthodox Church as a key culprit for alleged discrimination of “LGBTs.”

Education is a key pillar of Soros’s activities. His Leitmotif is the dictum that “no-one has a monopoly on the truth” and that “civic education” should replace the old “authoritarian” model. Even under communism Eastern Europe has preserved very high educational standards, but the Soros Foundation seeks to replace the old system with the concept of schools as “exercise grounds” for the “unhindered expression of students’ personalities in the process of equal-footed interaction with the teaching staff, thus overcoming the obsolete concept of authority and discipline rooted in the oppressive legacy of patriarchal past.” The purpose of education is not “acquisition of knowledge”: the teacher is to become the class “designer” and his relationship with students based on “partnership.” Soros’s reformers also insist on an active role of schools in countering the allegedly unhealthy influence of the family on students, which “still carries an imprint of nationalist, sexist, racist, and homophobic prejudices rampant in the society at large.”

“Racism” is Soros’s regular obsession, but he had a problem finding it in racially non-diverse East European countries. This has been resolved by identifying a designated victim group—gypsies (“Roma”). His protégés now come up with policy demands to “protect” this group that could have been written by Rev. Jesse Jackson:

• anti-bias training of teachers and administrators;
• integration of Romani history and culture in the textbooks at all levels;
• legally mandated arffirmative action programs for Roma;
• tax incentives for employers who employ them;
• access to low-interest credit for Roma small family businesses;
• setting aside a percentage of public tenders for Roma firms;
• legislation to fight “racism and discrimination” in housing;
• adoption of “comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation”;
• creation of mechanisms “to monitor implementation of anti-discrimination legislation and assist victims of racial discrimination in seeking remedies”;
• recognition by governments of “the Roma slavery and the Holocaust through public apology along with urgent adoption of a package of reparatory measures.”

A budding race relations industry is already in place, with the self-serving agenda of finding “discrimination” in order to keep itself in place for ever.

To make his agenda appear “normal” to the targeted population, millions of East Europeans are force-fed the daily fare of OSI agitprop by “the Soros media”—the term is by now well established in over a dozen languages—such as the B-92 media conglomerate in Serbia.

The social dynamics Soros uses to penetrate the target countries is interesting. To thousands of young East Europeans to become a “Soroshite” represents today what joining the Party represented to their parents: an alluring opportunity to have a reasonably paid job, to belong to a privileged elite, for many to travel abroad. The few chosen for the future new Nomenklatura go to Soros’s own Central European University in Budapest. In all post-communist countries Soros relies overwhelmingly on the sons and daughters of the old Communist establishment who are less likely to be tainted by any atavistic vestiges of their native soil, culture and tradition. The comparison with the janissary corps of the Ottoman Army is more apt than that with the Communist Party. The new janissaries, just like the old, have to prove their credentials by being more zealous than the Master himself.

The key ideological foundation for Soros’s beliefs is the same: that all countries are basically social arrangements, artificial, temporary and potentially dangerous. A plethora of quotes from his writings will make it clear that he thinks that owing allegiance to any of them is inherently irrational, and attaching one’s personal loyalty to it is absurd. Like Marx’s proletarian, Soros knows of no loyalty to a concrete country. He could serve any—or indeed all—of them, if they can be turned into the tools of his Wille zur Macht. In 1792, it could have been France, in 1917 Russia. Today, the United States is his host organism of choice because it is so powerful, and its media scene is open to penetration by his rabidly anti-traditionalist and deeply anti-American worldview and political agenda.

Textbooks and educational curricular reforms pushed by Soros in Eastern Europe indicate that he is trying to perform crude dumbing down of the young. Within months of coming to power in October 2000 the “reformists” within Serbia and their foreign sponsors insisted that schools—all schools, from kindergarden to universities—must be reformed and turned from “authoritarian” institutions into poligons for the “unhindered expression of students’ personalities in the process of equal-footed interaction with the teaching staff, thus overcoming the obsolete concept of authority and discipline rooted in the opressive legacy of patriarchal past.” They started with primary schools, with a pilot program of “educational workshops” for 7-12 year olds. The accompanying manual, sponsored by UNICEF and financed by the Open Society, denigrades the view that the purpose of education is acquisition of knowledge and insists that the teacher has to become the class “designer” and his relationship with students based on “partnership.”

The reformers devote particular attention to the more active role of schools in countering the allegedly unhealthy influence of the family on students, which “still carries an imprint of nationalist, sexist, [anti-Roma] racist, and homophobic prejudices rampant in the society at large.” The time-honored Balkan tradition of slapping childrens’ bottoms when they exceed limits is now presented in the elementary classroom as a form of criminal abuse that should be reported and acted upon. Traditional gender roles are relativized by “special projects” that entail cross-dressing and temporary adoption of opposite gender names.

Soros’s vision is hostile even to the most benign understanding of national or ethnic coherence. His core belief—that traditional morality, faith, and community based on shared memories are all verboten—is at odds even with the classical “open society” liberalism of Popper and Hayek, by whom he swears. His hatred of religion is the key. He promotes an education system that will neutralize any lingering spiritual yearnings of the young, and promote the loss of a sense of place and history already experienced by millions of Westerners, whether they are aware of that loss or not. Estranged from their parents, ignorant of their culture, ashamed of their history, millions of Westerners are already on the path of alienation that demands every imaginable form of self-indulgence, or else leads to drugs, or suicide, or conversion to Islam or some other cult.

To understand Soros it is necessary to understand globalization as a revolutionary, radical project. In the triumph of liberal capitalism, the enemies of civilization such as Soros have found the seeds of future victory for their paradigm that seeks to eradicate all traditional structures capable of resistance. The revolutionary character of the Open Society project is revealed in its relentless adherence to the mantra of Race, Gender and Sexuality. His goal is a new global imperium based that will be truly totalitarian. But he is making a colossal miscalculation. He does not realize that the unassimilated and unassimilable multitudes do not want to be the tools of his will to power. Illegal aliens in America, Algerians in France, Turks in Germany and Pakistanis in Britain have their own, instinctive scenario, and it does not entail leaving Soros and his ilk in positions of power, or alive.

Americans need to drop down to the poverty levels of the Third World

After I wrote a piece chastising outsourcing to foreign countries and America’s immigration predicament as it absorbs 3.1 million from around the world annually, a man from Madrass, India wrote back, “Mr. Wooldridge, you may be angry at us in India because of the H-1B, H-2B and L-1 Visas, as well as the outsourcing of jobs to my country…but we can make better products and do the job much cheaper than you Americans…besides you have been living an artificially high standard of living for decades; it’s about time you drop down to the poverty levels of the third world; immigration will do that to your country.”

And sure enough, it is doing just that with 15 million unemployed Americans and 41.8 million of us subsisting on food stamps! Thanks to our presidents and Congresses for the past 30 years for destroying manufacturing in the United States!  A friend named Les at my recreation center said yesterday, “It’s not complicated!  You take jobs away from Americans by outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring—and you’ve got nobody to buy the goods.  Bet Congress never thought about that!”

Yesterday, I received by latest copy of Time Magazine where an immigrant named Fareed Zakaria, from India,  now a naturalized citizen, wrote a piece about “Restoring the American Dream.”

Zakaria, not an American, nor did he grow up here, somehow enjoys ‘affirmative action’ at Time Magazine to allow him a treatise on our country from his Indian bias.  I wrote a rebuttal and added a bit of a reality check. I’m asking you to write one into Time, too, after you read his piece in the November 1, 2010 issue of Time.  Email address: 

Dear Time editors:

Re: “Restoring the American Dream” , 11/1/10, Zakaria, Time Magazine

Fareed Zakaria makes good points, but fails to address the causes of the loss of the American Dream. How about our elected Congress critters outsourcing, offshoring and insourcing millions of American jobs to India, China, Bangladesh, Mexico and elsewhere?  How about that $700 billion annual trade debt because we no longer manufacture our own products?   How about Congress flooding our country with 70 to 80 million immigrants since 1965—to displace our citizens from jobs, schools, our language and culture—as well as create human population overload like Zakaria’s India?  How about our Congress throwing us into unwarranted wars that dragged us into a $12 trillion debt dungeon?   What about 41.8 million Americans subsisting on food stamps and 15 million unemployed Americans because Congress won’t secure our borders or stop endless immigration or stop outsourcing jobs?  How about our presidents and Congress members that work against our interests to make sure the American Dream can never be realized by a growing number of Americans?  It’s as if our own elected leaders engineered our decline as a civilization.  How do we get 41.8 million Americans off food stamps when we import 1.3  million immigrants annually, along with 800,000 illegal migrants and another 900,000 of their children being birthed once they arrived each year—which enjoy welfare at our expense?  How can we ever catch up to employing our own 15 million unemployed citizens or the 41.8 million living on food stamps?  We cannot!  The American Dream will be seen as a brief fantasy circa 1960 through 2010.

Frosty Wooldridge, six continent traveler

Golden, CO

www.frostywooldridge.com

(Source for 1,000 children dying daily in India from waterborne diseases, www.worldpopulationmedia.org , William Ryerson)

(Source for immigrant numbers and their birth rates at www.cis.org , Dr. Steven Camarata)

(Source for food stamp recipients: Reuters )

P.S. Please forward this rebuttal to Fareed Zakaria at Time:

Fareed Zakaria talks about his native home of India as a robust economy and growing optimism?!  Pure fantasy!  I traveled in India.  Every DAY of the year, 1,000 children under 12 die of diarrhea, dysentery and other water borne diseases.  They can’t stop it because they add 12 million more people per year net gain!   Their waterways run with raw sewage with 10,000 square mile dead zones at the mouth of rivers like the Ganges.  Somewhere around 10 to 30 million or more Indians do not enjoy a toilet—so they squat on the land daily.  I personally met Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, and he said, “Over four million Indians are born in the streets, and die in the streets without ever having taken a shower or slept in a bed.”  All the while, they add that 12 million net gain annually because their religions refuse to utilize birth control on their way to overtaking China as the world’s most populated at 1.55 billion by 2050. The ‘Indian Dream’, which there never was one,  degrades beyond hope for 95 percent of India.

Ironically, Zakaria illustrates another example of brain drain out of a third world country.  The US sponges the best and the brightest from other countries and the result: leaves those countries without leaders, academics and teachers.  All the while, their countries grow worse while ours grows overpopulated. Roy Beck addresses it in his incredible five minute video below.

In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum balls”, Roy Beck, director ofwww.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation and why third world countries lose brain power.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

Canadian Immigration: Who Needs Stephen King?

Canada faces virtually the same predicament as America in that it continues mass immigration from the third world that grows by 80 million desperately poor people net gain annually.  It causes their cultures and populations a Faustian Dilemma with Hobson’s Choice as the final exit plan.

Tim Murray, www.immigrationwatchCanada.org , http://sinkinglifeboat.blogspot.com or http://biodiversityfirst.googlepages.com,  said, “I came upon an orchestration, the environmental movement, and all the musicians were playing violins to the tune of “Overconsumption, overconsumption, overconsumption.”

In this continuing series with journalist Tim Murray, he answers the question, “Who needs Stephen King when we are already living a nightmare?”

“More than a year ago I was invited to become one of the people the Vancouver Province newspaper would turn to when they wanted a short opinion on current issues,” said Murray. “Here is your chance to get your say in The Province!” they explained.  Silly me, I expected to be asked to comment on issues of over-riding importance. But I forgot that newspaper owners don’t see that their mandate is necessarily to inform and educate the public. Instead it is to both titillate and sedate them with inconsequential rubbish. The world is burning so let’s all fiddle. As long as the advertisers and subscribers are happy, who cares?

“Even environmental journalists tip-toe around brutal inconvenient truths to satisfy our psychotic need for a happy ending. As T. Michael Maher revealed in his seminal study, “How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population-Environment Connection”, only one in ten environmental stories identified population growth as a root cause of the problem, even those reporters who are most aware of its critical importance shied away from it.  Newspaper editors and reporters won’t go near the ticking time-bomb of human overpopulation—- they are so frightened of tackling this taboo that they choose instead to frighten us with symptoms and sideshows.

“The following is a sample of the kind of trivia that excites the editors of the mainstream press. “What do you like to do to celebrate Halloween?” the Vancouver Province asks.  What would your response be? Mine would be something like, “As a dress rehearsal for the impending collapse of industrial society I want to spend my Halloween hunkered down in my bunker provisioned with enough food supplies and ammo to deal with the legions of starving marauders who will attempt to get at them. For entertainment I will watch “The Road” which conjures up more terrifying images than the ghosts and goblins of Halloween night. Instead of indulging in the clichéd fantasies of the supernatural, why doesn’t the Province attempt to educate its readership about the very real horrors that Peak Oil will visit upon us?”

“The submission date is providentially ironic, October 27th. It was about this time of year when, following my  12th birthday, the Cuban missile crisis was upon us. At school I was taught to “duck and cover”, and on my way home, the air raid siren two blocks away went daily off just for practice in case I we weren’t traumatized enough. Like other kids, on more than one occasion,  I ran home in panic . For almost two weeks, I would come home to find my mother standing over the ironing board in front of our black and white TV set, with her eyes glued to Walter Cronkite while, almost robotically, her hand guided the iron over the newly dried clothes, or sat mending them from a chair positioned to see the unfolding drama. On some afternoons she would just sit there transfixed and paralytic. I can still see her now.

“Like my classroom, my home was a morgue, and I could read the same fear on the faces of my parents that my  teacher, Mrs. Nergaard had. They didn’t dare to tell us how serious the situation was, but they didn’t have to. School children of all ages knew. They read body language too. After all, we got Reader’s Digest and I remember it was full of nuclear war scenarios.  I remember reading one story about how a family survived the onslaught of Russian bombers by being prepared. How I begged my Dad to build a bomb shelter. But my parents were wise.

“They made it clear that there was no secure shelter from an atomic blast in our city nor from the fall-out thereafter. Even if we did survive for a time, they pointed out,  our supplies would run out, and if they didn’t, we could not possibly prevent less prepared survivors from taking them.  The same arguments could be made now. We will see a collapse of some kind of horrendous and unprecedented proportions, either abrupt or protracted, and there will be no sanctuary from privation when our economy crashes. And certainly not from the nuclear, chemical or biological war that could ensue from the desperate competition between nations for scarce resources. There can be no duck and cover from $300/barrel oil.

“What struck me then, even at that age, was the absurdity of having been ‘scared’ for two weeks in October, and then, still shaken, being subjected to an obscene but sanctioned ritual at the end of the month whereby kids were once more ‘scared sh*tless’ —- only with corpses, skeletons, axe-murderers, poltergeists and demons instead of mushroom clouds. All in good fun, you see, and with enough of a sugar overdose from Halloween candies to keep our pancreas pumping for days.   As if real life-horror was not enough to contend with.

“Forget Stephen King. I will stick with the two Richards, Duncan and  Heinberg. That’s horror enough for me now.”

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