They embarked on a legislative agenda of punishing economic policy against family size for responsible, middle class adults while instituting welfare policies that subsidized an irresponsible , uneducated and welfare dependent underclass to produce unwed mothers with multiple children all by different fathers
As a result, we have an exploding welfare class with not enough productive workers to support both them and the retiring baby boomers who are going to live far longer than previous generations
The solution - import even more illiterate, uneducated welfare dependents from the dysfunctional Third World to explode the population of the US from an “ overpopulated” 220 million middle class Americans to over 400 million people, a huge plurality of whom are illiterate, welfare dependent Third World illegal and legal immigrants - most of whom have no desire to Americanize or assimilate into American culture
I hear you! I was around during the 70s as well, which is why I no longer buy into every latest disaster prediction that comes along.