BA> BA>>>> You really want to support another 32 million
BA> BA>>>> unemployed/unemployable welfare recipients in this country?

BA> JB>>> Wow.  You condemn them all to a life of poverty and don't
BA> JB>>> believe that  all life is precious and able to all significant
BA> JB>>> value to their Earth?

BA> BA>> On your first point I don't condemn them to anything, I simply
BA> BA>> noted that there aren't enough (paying) jobs for the people who
BA> BA>> are here now.  Adding 32 million to the population would simply
BA> BA>> aggravate the existing problem.

BA> JB> You miss the economics point people create jobs for other people
BA> JB> and  that a country's most valuable natural resource is its
BA> JB> people.  I am not  making an assumption here that all 32M of
BA> JB> these people would have been a  drain on society.  I also am not
BA> JB> going down the liberal road viewpoint  that there are too many
BA> JB> people on earth and thus we ought to start  population control.
BA> JB> When the liberals start lining up to solve the  problem,
BA> JB> starting with themselves, then I might believe they are serious
BA> JB> about the issue.

BA>FWIW I don't consider myself either liberal or left wing.  I am a
BA>card-carrying,
BA>dues-paying Libertarian (unlike most 'members' of the two major
BA>parties).  That said I have managed to avoid having offspring, so you
BA>may consider me to be serious about the issue.  Not having offspring
BA>means I don't have to worry about
BA>the godawful mess they're going to have to try to live in.

I can't equate human life to an economics equation.  My morality will 
not allow me to.  It feels too much like slavery.


Jeff

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