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To: Technogeeb
These places merely prove the point that more people equals more wealth. In every country where the population is increasing, so is the standard of living.

The material standard of living has increased worldwide due to mechanized production. Not because third worlders fed on the Western dole are having more kids.

Some of you don't seem to understand that wealth is not something that is to be distributed, it is something that is generated.

How exactly do large generations of young people you can't afford to feed properly let alone school in a trade generate wealth? 70% of Burma is living by subsistence farming. That's wealth?

Humans aren't immune to population pressure.

62 posted on 05/22/2008 1:13:08 PM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: CGTRWK
The material standard of living has increased worldwide due to mechanized production.

The material standard of living has increased because of people. Mechanized production is just one example of how people have achieved that progress. More people equals more progress.

Not because third worlders fed on the Western dole are having more kids.

The "western dole" is a source of problems, not a solution. It is just another example of meddlesome statists who won't mind their own business. In the vast majority of cases, it is a CAUSE of malnutrition (such as the Clinton rice imports to Haiti, which resulted in local farmers being unable to compete with "free" food and abandoning their farms). You and your kind are not solving problems; you are causing them.

How exactly do large generations of young people you can't afford to feed properly let alone school in a trade generate wealth? 70% of Burma is living by subsistence farming. That's wealth?

No, that is stupid government. The same sort of meddlesome stupid government that you people are advocating. In the case of Myanmar, it also happens to be combined with somewhat more overt forms of tyranny.

Humans aren't immune to population pressure.

Immunity implies that population is a disease. The very choice of words used by your kind show the dark nature that underlies your twisted philosophy. That your kind is trying to justify sending condoms to a people who are suffering due to a natural disaster instead of more practical aid (medical and engineering assistance, for example) proves your utter depravity.

63 posted on 05/22/2008 2:29:30 PM PDT by Technogeeb
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