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With U.S.-China tensions mounting, Vox Co-Founder Matthew Yglesias believes he’s found a way for America to maintain its position as the world’s leading superpower. His proposal? Tripling America’s population, bringing it to roughly 1 billion citizens by the year 2100. The U.S. currently has about 331.4 million Americans, miles short of China’s population of 1.4 billion.
According to surveys Yglesias referenced, the ideal nuclear family has shrunk in the U.S. over the last few decades. “We need to address that. That means paid parental leave, it means investments in daycare, it means thinking about what [less affluent families] do during the summertime,” Yglesias said.
US must 'encourage people to have more children' in order to keep up with China: author
With U.S.-China tensions mounting, Vox Co-Founder Matthew Yglesias believes he’s found a way for America to maintain its position as the world’s leading superpower. His proposal? Tripling America’s population, bringing it to roughly 1 billion citizens by the year 2100. The U.S. currently has...finance.yahoo.com
What do you mean?I'd say it depends a lot on who the billion people are, wouldn't you think?
What do you mean?
Vox founder Matthew Yglesias has published a book on why he thinks the USA should have 1 billion people. He's hoping the Democratic Party will adopt his proposal, and make radical population growth a part of its platform.
'One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger' was inspired by Doug Saunders' book that proposed government intervention to grow Canada's population to 100 million.
I'd say it depends a lot on who the billion people are, wouldn't you think?
Have you considered the possibility that if your perception of a situation doesn't make sense, something about your perception is wrong?The perplexing thing about the left's support for massive population growth is that they were on the exact opposite side of the issue for some 60 years.
Well it's the GOP who want to make abortion illegal. Of course the better-off girls' sugar daddies and pastors who got them knocked up in the first place will find a way to get them 'unpregnant'. That only leaves poor people and minorities, lots of them. The only solution to 'making America Great Again' the way trumpies seem to want would then be to stop those hundreds of millions of babies voting at all. Something the GOP are well on track for anyway.
But seriously, China, like India, has had 5,000 years or more of continuous civilization on massive tracts of fertile land that can support a growing population. America has done 'well' to crack 300 million in just a couple of centuries but it can't really catch up to older countries that easily.
Jeeze.... talk about diving into the deep end of the pool in your pajamas.... you have a very vivid imagination. So, you are claiming that the GOP's platform on abortion is about suppressing votes?????? That's rich!
Guess it all depends on your definition of "civilization"? Over in China after 5000 years of "civilization" they are still eating monkeys and bats and hanging wind charms on everything to scare off the ghosts. While over in India they are so "civilized" that they would rather starve than eat a cow, allowing their cows to roam the streets free and unmolested... same as their raw sewage. Nice!
Nah, I think I stick with the 300 million here. 1/3 of which at least aren't still peeling bananas with our feet.
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