Either we can voluntarily slow

or stop our growth today, or we can have it shoved down our throat by

a less benevolent, more desperate government in the near future. This

means we need peer pressure to encourage smaller families and to eliminate

tax code subsidies for large families (i.e., a maximum of four personal

exemptions per family).

We also need to replace permanent

immigration with a guest worker program which would allow workers to come

here, work, pay taxes, then take their money home to their families elsewhere.

When we open the flood gates to permanent immigration, we are encouraging

other countries to ignore their own overpopulation problems and export

people.

When my father was born, there

were 110 million Americans; when I was born, there were 190 million Americans.

Now there are close to 300 million of us. I don't want to live in a country

of 400, 500, or 800 million people. I want my elbow room. I think most

Americans do.

If we are not careful our great-grandchildren

will be living in a country as crowded as India, China or Bangladesh.

I don't care what color my neighbors are as long as there are not too

many of them. If we don't act now voluntarily, it will be mandatory later.

Bill Gilmer

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