"Seems to me that the more populated America becomes, the further into socialism we slide."
CC, I agree. I am not one to live in the past, but it is clear that greater population is a double edged sword.
Despite my liberal friends' direst warnings that our nation is trending toward a dark-age of conservatism, it is intuitively obvious that we have been trending toward socialism since the days of FDR.
I can't say for sure that this is due to greater population or just a natural progression of democratic politics.
But certainly, negative examples of greater population are all around us-- and there is an inevitable and comensurate squeeze on freedom as well.
I think a stable population is a good thing but I wish Americans were producing more children instead of importing people from all over the world who have no interest in becoming American.
**"Seems to me that the more populated America becomes, the further into socialism we slide." **
What if the increase in population is more religious and holds to higher morals, thus, larger families?
I believe this is already happening in churches around the world.
Witness the decline of some churches in the U. S. that have supported homosexuality and same sex marriage and the increase in church growth in those who stand by and firmly speak out and fight abortion, euthanasia, stem cell reasearch and other pro-life issues -- the Catholic Church.