Replying to a message of Jeff Binkley to Bob Ackley:

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

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

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

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

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

--- FleetStreet 1.19+