Posted on 01/03/2003 2:45:59 PM PST by Mark
Some who write to editors are not truthful. This is one letter in the Los Angeles Daily News 1/3/03
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Derailed trolley
I'm a middle-of-the-road Republican, so it is easy for me to disavow myself from the growing craziness of radio commentator Rush Limbaugh _ the self-proclaimed spokesman of the Republican Party. His rantings and accusations of late, often with questionable facts, have become very objectionable to all moderates.
Limbaugh's radio program can be avoided, but he's also interjecting recorded blurbs into other programs at his radio network. These are directed venomously at those of us concerned with the increasing danger arising from Earth's human-population explosion. Not only are we screamed at as "environmentalist wackos," but then he makes an astonishing claim: "The entire population of the Earth could be comfortably settled in the state of Texas in a 1,500-square-foot home per family.
Obviously the Limbaugh Trolley has jumped off the track and his voice is no longer credible.
Duane Guernsey
North Hollywood
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My response to the "Rush Hater" (unknown if it will get published)
Re: "Derailed Trolley" 1/3/03(Duane "middle-of-the-road Republican" Guernsey, North Hollywood)
OK, Rush Limbaugh may seem mean to you: "then he makes an astonishing claim: "The entire population of the Earth could be comfortably settled in the state of Texas in a 1,500-square-foot home per family." Now rather than check where the information came from you say that Rush can no longer be believed.
This information has been around for years. Check with Texlife.org on the web - May 28,1999. There that exact figure is used " with plenty of extra room for some steers". It has been published in books from studies done, also. So, Rush did not merely make it up. Some lazy liberals might lie to get their agenda out. Not you, of course, being a "middle-of-the-road Republican ".
www.pop.org/students/texas1.html
The whole world's population could fit in the state of Texas...Amazing as it may seem, the entire population of the world can be housed in the U.S. state of Texas — and very comfortably indeed, with each person enjoying a living far in excess of that now available to all but the most wealthy.
Consider these facts: The land area of Texas is some 262,000 square miles* and current UN estimates of the world's population (for 12 October 1999) are about 6 billion.**
By converting square miles to square feet — remember to multiply by 5,280 feet per mile twice — and dividing by the world's population, one readily finds that there are more than 1,217 square feet per capita.
A family of 5 would thus occupy more than 6,085 square feet of living space. Even in Texas, that's a mansion.
These numbers apply to just one-story, ranch house-type dwellings. With a housing mix of multi-story buildings, including town houses, apartment buildings and high rises, appreciably greater living space could be provided. Such an arrangement would allow ample land for yards and all the necessary streets and roads.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world would be completely empty, available for all of mankind's agricultural, manufacturing, educational, and recreational activities!
*The World Almanac, 1999
**UNPD "World Population
Prospects," 1998 UN Revision
Translation: take the dumbest parts of the Republican platform, and the dumbest parts of the Democrat platform and put them together. That's what I believe in.
But, maybe the liberal view is valid. If you take the total land in Texas and see it through the liberals' eyes, then 75% would be off limits to protect the pink prickly cactus, 20% would be declared as wetland-- then the libs may have a point( as on their heads.)
Hey! Great Place to be........
Especially If ya wanna get hit by a Mac Truck er sumpin...
Shhhhhh! Don't tell the Mexicans.
That sounds liberal. You don't think he was lying about being a Republican do you?(/sarcasm)
What, just because there are no Republicans who live in North Hollywood? Or because there are only about 15 California teachers in the whole state who vote Republican? Surely it wasn't the fact that he's married to an environmental wacko, is it?
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