home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!purdue!yuma!trzyna
- From: trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU (wayne trzyna)
- Subject: Re: Abbey bashing. Was: Trip rpt: SE Utah 4wd vacation, part 3/4
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Message-ID: <Nov17.162828.53951@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:28:28 GMT
- Distribution: na
- References: <1992Nov10.185820.25091@news.uiowa.edu> <141643@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1992Nov17.140235.29055@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Nntp-Posting-Host: vivaldi.cs.colostate.edu
- Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department
- Lines: 36
-
- In article <1992Nov17.140235.29055@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> mpb@troy.cc.bellcore.com (bunz,marcus p) writes:
- >
- >While I'll agree that the days of having 10 & 12 children are long gone,
- >due to the fact that most of them will survive to adulthood and reproduce
- >(no true that very long ago, in the whole scheme of things). I don't
- >think that limiting people to one or even two children would be good
- >in the US. If I'm not mistaken, the population of the US has been
- >flat or declining slightly, if you exclude emigrants.
-
- Ah, statistics. If you exclude this, tweak that, invert this, and
- normalize that you'll see the population is really declining, the
- economic future is bright, and the sun rises in the west. Wake up!
- Look around you. How big was your home town twenty years ago and
- how big is it now?
-
- Two fallacies are conveyed here:
-
- 1) There is no problem.
- 2) It's not a problem of the middle class white folks, but of the poor
- uneducated non-white folks.
-
-
- >It will also be a tough
- >job conviencing people that they don't need lots of children where
- >the life style is subsistance farming, how do you convience them that
- >they will be cared for if they could live longer than they could take
- >care of themselves on their own.
-
- Their subsistance life style will end when they sell their land to a
- middle class white guy so he can build his vacation home on it.
-
-
- --
-
- -Wayne Trzyna
- trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU
-