Students with Visas not even a threat

[eaglescout]

I brought this same issue in the forum thread: "Extremely disappointed". I suggest you read it along with another thread entitled: "Ron Paul - I have not changed my position on Immigration". They stand on the position of making it harder for suspect nations, not a flat out refusal.

Furthermore, for a person who has the same reservations as you, you have to ask yourself why someone like me isn't pursuing this same issue anymore: the answer is that the ad was simply over-zealous. I'm happy they retracted their position and have clarified what the ad said or did not say. Hence, my energy now is spent on trying to campaign for RP and I suggest you do the same.

I read the threads twice, but I'm not satisfied with the hearsay.

 

[JohnDelano]

So how many people will be too many? We can just keep multiplying forever?

What is too many? I don't know. I don't think anybody can know. I don't know why 300 million is good, but 400 million, 500 million, a billion is bad. Those amounts would obviously be bad if suddenly dumped into the area of the US tomorrow, but over time, who is to say what it should be? People have been finding new ways to use resources and new ways for more people to live in the same area. The earth is just a bunch of densely packed minerals. People will find new uses for them. I think nearly all of us reject the environmental extremist view on the left that support population decrease.

New York, Philadelphia or Chicago could not have existed with their current population density a century or two ago. New York and Philadelphia were around 30,000 people at the beginning of the US; they are about 8 million and 1.5 million now. Yes they have sprawled out too. Chicago didn't exist; it was just a few American Indians living along Lake Michigan in a large frontier recently acquired by the US from the British.

Prefer to live with more space around you? We have a long way to go before that wouldn't be possible. There are large open spaces in countries like China, India or Japan.

I sometimes wonder what would have been economically possible if there had been more nuclear power allowed in this country. Very little need for oil; salt water could be cheaply turned to fresh water with all the cheap electricity. So many other things too.

I think that if we could get to have a free market, there would be so much economic growth that this issue would pretty much be non-existent.

 

[jorlowitz]

I agree. The ad missed the point. Terrorist Nation? How about, don't give Visas to terrorists instead.

 

[Corydoras]

I'm criticizing the ad. Not Ron Paul.

Having read your criticisms over various posts, I have to say I think you have it backwards. I can't see how one can go into the Ron Paul Library and read what he has to say on this topic without realizing that he thought it through.

 

[amistybleu]

Having read your criticisms over various posts, I have to say I think you have it backwards. I can't see how one can go into the Ron Paul Library and read what he has to say on this topic without realizing that he thought it through.

Shhhhhhh, just go some where else on the site and find productive conversation and activism.