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How can low-quality immigration make inroads?
How can low-quality immigration make inroads? Eleuthero 07/16/04
...America is now a country that allows the SCUM, and not... Commandanté Pachuco 07/16/04
Like the Statue of Liberty inscription DaveGillie 07/16/04
No Such Thing As Too Much Of A Good Thing??? Finster 07/16/04
More to the point, it was a land that could make good use of... Mark Grant 07/16/04
There is ALWAYS work to be done!! DaveGillie 07/16/04
or idealogy DaveGillie 07/16/04
The US Is Not Underpopulated! Finster 07/16/04
I have to go with Dave on this one. Most of the US is under... Vangel Vesovski 07/16/04
I want to go to those "underpopulated" areas. Eleuthero 07/16/04
More People, Same Resources? Finster 07/16/04
the ole zero sum gain DaveGillie 07/16/04
Zero Sum Finster 07/17/04
Yet we inhabit a TINY portion of the land on this planet. DaveGillie 07/17/04
Natural resources ARE defined by people, DaveGillie 07/17/04
Freedom Finster 07/17/04
Talking about EXTREMES is a worthless and TWO sided argument DaveGillie 07/17/04
I really just don't get your correleation of pop density ... Vangel Vesovski 07/17/04
Logical Error Finster 07/18/04
The Netherlands, UK and Japan are more densely populated tha... Vangel Vesovski 07/17/04
Natural Resources Versus People Finster 07/18/04
I grant you that the majority of Amercians are anti-immigrat... DaveGillie 07/18/04
See, that's your whole problem DaveGillie 07/17/04
Life Finster 07/17/04
Technology sure HAS made much more of the Earth inhabitable! DaveGillie 07/17/04
Wrong cause... Vangel Vesovski 07/16/04
Peel Back One More Layer Finster 07/17/04
Do you really have ANY idea how little space it would take t... DaveGillie 07/17/04
Productive Use? Finster 07/17/04
How do you account for the most WEALTHY areas of the world b... DaveGillie 07/17/04
Easy Finster 07/17/04
The point is, and if you are intellectually honest with y... Vangel Vesovski 07/17/04
I thought our demographics was MUCH better than Europes, in ... DaveGillie 07/17/04
Your demographic picture is clearly better than that of Euro... Vangel Vesovski 07/18/04
Ever hear the old joke???? DaveGillie 07/18/04
Defining The Point Finster 07/18/04
No Vangel, the point is that there is simply an inescapab... Vangel Vesovski 07/18/04
Julian Simon Finster 07/18/04
"there is an inverse relationship between population density... Mark Grant 07/18/04
Valuable Resources Finster 07/18/04
What's your time frame???? DaveGillie 07/18/04
Julian Simon Vangel Vesovski 07/18/04
Pluses or Minuses they are mostly behind us. Lucius Foster 07/16/04
DaveGillie & Lots Of Land ! The Reaper ! 07/16/04
"out west they are presently running very low on water" A... Mark Grant 07/16/04
Resource allocation DaveGillie 07/16/04
out west they are presently running very low on water ... Vangel Vesovski 07/16/04
Invest in water!! There probably will not be a shortage of p... William C. Hampton 07/18/04
Water is hard to invest in directly, DaveGillie 07/18/04
Educator, he who walks the highway of life. Giver of Knowledge Lucius Foster 07/17/04
There are always special students. Eleuthero 07/17/04
The Magnet Program Lucius Foster 07/17/04
Western drought Ronald Swaren 07/16/04
Water Water everywhere but not a drop to Drink. Lucius Foster 07/16/04
It's the watershed that counts James Hyland 07/17/04
Stealing water Ronald Swaren 07/18/04
My point is: James Hyland 07/18/04
Thanks any way, eh? Ronald Swaren 07/18/04

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Date: July 16, 2004 04:34 AM
Author: Eleuthero
Subject: How can low-quality immigration make inroads?

As many DR'ers know, I'm a teacher and my classes are mostly foreigners. In the 1980s, the personal and intellectual attributes of those foreigners was much, much higher than it is in 2004. The newbie foreigners now have much poorer English skills, much weaker characters, and, frankly, a helluva lot less talent that the 1980s influx.

I believe that they are only succeeding because America is now a country that allows the SCUM, not the CREAM, to rise to the top. It is a reverse meritocracy. Most of my colleagues in education and in the industrial workforce sing the same song: Their bosses are bigger ignoramuses than ever before, people with real skills are often regarded as a THREAT as much as an ASSET (because they can reveal the boss's idiocy), and people who report incompetence (whistleblowers) are like "enemies of the people" in the old Soviet Union.

Indeed, I find life in America increasingly like the life I read of in "Khruschev: The Man and His Era". Nearly all the people in my school who are regarded by students as the most technically able instructors are estranged from Apparatchik-like administrators and newbie instructors who seem strangely politicized and even more strangely unskilled.

Of course, when one looks at Kerry vs. Bush, one realizes that the scum-rising-to-the-top phenomenon has given us perhaps the most comically bankrupt choice of "leaders" in the history of our Republic. Maybe the future of America is to drown all the 10-year-olds with I.Q.s above 120 in the Mississippi River so that the Emperor-Idiots can maintain an illusion.

"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is King".

E.

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Date: July 16, 2004 06:32 PM
Author: Ronald Swaren
Subject: Western drought

If the present dry spell in the Southwest continues, which according to climatologists is normal weather, we will all find out just how overpopulated the US is, already. Oh well, at least my house price will continue to climb with the drought refugees relocating.

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