[edpc]

150 million, or so chicks and I can't find a date for Friday? Pathetic.

[Rakkasan1]

be fruitfull and multiply. the multiply part is easy,but the world has plenty of slugs who just take and contribute nothing.

[kellynla]

300?
try 270 plus 30 million illegals...

[Anvilhead]

"Never in the history of mankind have so many people lived such free and prosperous lives in one country."

Only until the consumers out vote the producers.

[Dante3]

Way too many people for this country. The quality of life will suffer, environment will be damaged, nonrenewable resources will be used up at a greater frequency, and most of the immigrants (by no means all) will push us towards a 3rd World country (many even refuse to learn the language and demand special perks).

[synbad600]

Please note: My town is full. Stay out.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Never in the history of mankind have so many people lived such free and prosperous lives in one country.

When productive people are having a colossal amount of their production confiscated as taxes, to be redistributed by the government to non-productive people, it's hardly a glowing example of "freedom".

Overpopulation is not a matter of sheer numbers, but of the relationship between numbers and economic activity. Every time somebody has a baby for which they can't afford to independently provide food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and education, socialism takes another step forward, and freedom takes another step backward. When we have such a huge and growing segment of the population that is so dependent on government handouts that eliminating the handouts would clearly lead to massive riots and revolution, we're overpopulated.

Every time I read about another welfare mother whose kid has been beaten to death by her boyfriend, it's accompanied by a mention of the 3, 4, 5, 6 other children she has. And every time I read a leftist MSM sob story about a "hard working" illegal immigrant, the justification given for their illegal activity is the large brood of children they have. But of the hundreds of people I personally know who are paying way more than their share of taxes, most have 0, 1, or 2 children, a few have 3, and a microscopic number have more than 3. Many would like to have more, but aren't willing to dump their kids in the infernal public schools that are filled to the rafters with, and designed to cater to, the offspring of welfare mothers and illegal immigrants -- which they would have to do if they had more children.

Cato needs to do a careful analysis of just what percentage of the US population is actually both free and prosperous. Living on handouts isn't being prosperous, and being forced to fork over hard-earned money for hand-outs isn't being free.

[Obie Wan]

Here's a big Bronx cheer for Daniel T. Griswold. Talk about trying to down play the numbers. After all according to him immigration on average has accounted for only 30 percent of the change in individual state populations since 2000 and that's not supposed be a big deal?!? The medical system in states bordering Mexico are supposed to be closed to collapse in funding and being understaffed to deal with the immigration burden.I suspect Mr. Griswold wrote this piece with a pro "illegal" immigration bias being interjected into it !!!

[Heartofsong83]

If it weren't for illegals, it would be around 280 million.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Shouldn't this article be in the front page or breaking news?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

This thread is running amok with libertarians. Which is their right, btw, but more non-libertarian opinions could be useful.

[longtermmemmory]

and yet we may have all this "space" but urban planners are busy demanding the government create useless mass transit systems and white elephant light rail trollys, AND increase taxes to fund them.