"Don White" wrote in news:BACFh.2927$PV3.39003
@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca:

I think we should find a way to prosper with zero population growth
both
locally and internationally.



South Carolina's population centers are certainly exploding. The climate
attracts them, now that we have air conditioning...(c;

Local and state governments are stealing the money growth creates,
instead of pouring it into rebuilding roads, expanding existing roads,
maintaining old roads and building new ones. Oh, they point to the new
lawyer's bridge to get the super rich in Mt Pleasant to the old city on
the peninsula...but all the other roads where the people live haven't
been repaved in decades and are falling apart from the heavy truck
traffic all this growth causes. It's been 39 years since Dorchester
Road, the main 4-lane highway up the East side of the Ashley River where
I live has been properly repaved. They've even stopped hiring tree
contractors to trim the trees, which are overgrowing the roads something
awful, banging into my stepvan going to work.

The roads are plugged with cars and the real estate politicians are STILL
issuing themselves new building permits for really high density housing
every day. Charleston is becoming HUGE! Summerville, SC, on the edge of
North Charleston, has the largest growing hispanic population in the
state.

America, as usual, is too stupid to take advantage of these people like
the smarter countries on the planet. Bahrain, the little island country
in the Arabian Gulf where the first oil well was drilled by ESSO, for
instance, allows foreign workers into the kingdom. Ah, but only the
WORKER can come to Bahrain to work! Mom and the kids STAY HOME in India
and Pakistan and Bangledesh. A guest worker MUST have a job sponsor at
all times. Going rates for a houseboy to cook/clean/do windows/household
worker is about $100/month plus room and board. I have friends who live
in Bahrain and to try to get them to move back to the states, you get,
"What? Are you crazy?!" Waited on hand and foot by their low cost
servants, spoiled them long ago. Ruth, the wife, said, "Not unless I can
take them home with me." Of course, with our regressive labor laws, that
ain't gonna happen. Thank you AFL-CIO! Guest workers do all the menial
tasks at your house. AS IT SHOULD BE! Stupid Americans.....(d^

The only way a guest worker can become a citizen of Bahrain is they must
live in Bahrain, continuously, for 25 years, speak/read/write fluent
Arabic and be a Moslem. That pretty much put a stop to the torrent of
immigration that was going on long ago. If the guest worker loses
his/her job, they have 2 weeks to find another one or the gummit will put
them on a plane for home. That keeps labor costs down. $100/month in
rural Bangledesh is a veritable fortune, I'm told.

Larry
--
I have a new strategy to protect the Mexican border. From the border
to inside the USA, 1 mile, we turn it into our OPEN PIT nuclear
waste dump, turning it into a no-mans-land for tens of thousands
of years. Anyone attempting to cross will simply be eaten alive
by neutrons! Problem solved!