Grinding poverty exists in Africa, China, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South America, Indonesia, Russia and many other parts of the world. It chokes its victims in a vice-like grip of futility. It features disease, an uneducated populace, corruption and starvation.
It´s called the Third World. Most of us have no clue how much suffering exists outside America while we spend $9.2 billion on weight loss programs every year.
Nonetheless, hundreds of letters arrive in my email box weekly from around America. But several times a month, letters arrive from foreign countries. One angry writer from Madras, India, a Mr. Singh, expressed his dim view of a piece I wrote concerning H-1B visas that displaced jobs from American citizens.
“I suppose you think I´m the enemy,” he said, “because I have taken one of your out-sourced jobs as well as an entire factory of workers here in India. However, we can make the product cheaper than you Americans. Your artificially high wages can not compete with our labor market. Besides, it´s time Americans drop their artificially high standard of living to the poverty levels of the rest of the world.”
I wrote back, “Is it possible that you maintain an artificially low standard of living by sustaining an artificially high overpopulation level of 1.1 billion people? Wouldn´t India be better off with only 300 million like America? Wouldn´t China be better off with 300 million instead of 1.3 billion? Wouldn´t Bangladesh with 144 million people in a landmass the size of Ohio be better off with only a million? Wouldn´t your standard of living rise to the level of a First World country if you had a smaller population?”
Singh wrote back, “I never thought of it that way,” he said. “You make an interesting point.”
Nonetheless, he made an cogent point. America IS dropping its standard of living for all its citizens as this country suffers an invasion by millions of immigrants annually. Most people don´t realize the world population grows by 77 million annually which creates an endless line awaiting entry into the portals of America. Since 1965 when the Immigration Reform Act opened the floodgates to one million immigrants annually, we have been inundated with over 70 million. Still the world grows out of control with no end in sight.
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Great analogy, a little long but worth the read!
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