There is a huge amount of opportunity in this country, Art. So much that there really is little reason aside from security to constrain our policies. At worst we might want to work out some sort of balance between comapassionate admittance policies and quotas.

The underlying situation, IMHO. is the stifling of spirit that has been imposed on the nation's entrepreneurs. Without them, the growth that leads immigrants into stable lives becomes problematical..,and right now we have such a top heavy economy it get really difficult to make growth happen.

The population density is only a problem in the centers. Driven across the West lately? You could put the entire population of New England into Montana and Oregon and they'd rattle around. Besides, the solution to aridity and water supplies is only a generation away. The solution to fuel-driven pollution is as well.

If we give up hope it will be because our politicians have strangled it with taxes, bread and circuses.


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