Overpopulation? Or just cluster cramps?

Random thoughts.

Been thinking lately of the hubub of the myth of the overpopulation of the world the US, illegal immigration problems and how they might actually be related.

http://www.jefflindsay.com/Overpop.shtml is a great read on the subject and better yet an LDS perspective on it.

While I'll save the time and not throw numbers out there, I've felt for a long time that the more the merrier. While shrinking our numbers we shrink our opportunities for population bubbles. That being said there are certain areas that are overcrowded. Looking at major cities it seems we lack the sense of expansion but rather "pack it in" for ease of transportation and location for work etc. Which leads to, I believe, raising a generation in which they are unable to think above the city walls in which they are born in. While the cause for that is perhaps the turn our society has taken, I don't believe we would ever be able to outgrow the Earth before it serves its purposes. (of course, I'm taking an LDS spin on the whole thing at this point.) I don't believe that a God would created something that doesn't serve its purpose. Animals live to their fullest, nature acts exactly how God intended and planned, mankinds purpose here is to choose...which we seem to be doing awefully well.

Anyways getting back on track here, I wanted to tie in the immigration crisis here. At our current state there is legislation trying to be enacted to wall up our borders. Perhaps this is the answer or perhaps this will only be like slapping a band aid on a gushing wound. I think that this thinking is frail logic in thinking that it will help anything long term. The problem with illegal immigrants isn't that they are here. But rather the cash flow. They obviously sustain a large workforce, some saying that Americans are unwilling to do. But its not that Americans aren't willing to do the work, but rather they aren't willing to do it for such low wages. The true crime here isn't the people here illegally, but rather the American companies that employ them under the table. I feel that instead of focus being so much on our borders it should be granting amnesty to those that are here, and getting them "inked" into the tax and social security system. The current defunct social security system only works if it has a bigger base of paying workforce to support the smaller retirement segment. Our country is growing but the social security base paying workforce isn't keeping up. I feel that the illegal immigrants is the answer. They are here, despite the millions of tax dollars spent on keeping them out.

And of course that being said, perhaps redirecting our efforts in understanding why so many are willing to come here illegally from a defunct and corrupt Mexico system and seeing what we can do to help, educate and uplift our neighbors.

Taking again in account my LDS background, I do not believe that the "promised land" begins and ends at American boarders. I believe we will see a day where Southern American and central American will excel in every way possible. Of course based on the righteousness of the peoples there. Which I don't know if anyone has noticed has a larger population of LDS members than America.


/random thoughts