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- From: karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Abbey bashing. Was: Trip rpt: SE Utah 4wd vacation, part 3/4
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- In article <Nov17.162828.53951@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU (wayne trzyna) writes:
- |> 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...
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- Does anyone have any authoritative statistics on the contribution immigration,
- both legal and illegal, makes to the rate of population growth in the U.S.?
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