Media ignore important facts on immigration
The truth about immigration’s role in our prolonged population surge is ignored by the general media, leaving most citizens unaware of the underlying reason why traffic is increasing everywhere, why housing density is a threat even in historic residential districts in Portland and elsewhere -- to say nothing about the problems with rising costs of public education for ever-expanding enrollments, welfare services for vast numbers of homeless and poor people, environmental degradation in Oregon, the U.S. and elsewhere.
The rush to the U.S. by millions from around the world must be stopped if our nation is to have an acceptable quality of life here.
Overcrowding and lack of economic opportunities drive desperate people from third-world countries to the U.S. We’ve been giving financial and technical assistance to these countries for decades now, but population policy has not been adequately addressed.
Negative Population Growth says: “We believe that the optimum rate of [world] population growth is negative.” For the U.S., they recommend reducing immigration to not over 200,000 a year, causing a gradual decline in population, and stabilizing at a sustainable level of around 150 million. Fertility among native-born in the U.S. has been below replacement level for some time.
Where are the feminists when they’re needed to encourage women in other countries to demand the right to control reproduction in their own bodies, the right to decide whether to have children and if so, how many.
Joe Guzzardi, a long-time supporter of reduced immigration, gives the media a good scolding for their silence on these issues. Here are excerpts from his article:
Call to journalists: Return to your professional standards
by Joe Guzzardi, in Daily Citizen-News, Dalton GA, January 9, 2019
On New Year's Eve, The Washington Post published a shockingly biased (even as measured in the current shoddy journalism era) op-ed piece. Titled "The Demographic Time Bomb that Could Hit America," the commentary reflects columnist Catherine Rampell's opinion that declining population would represent many dramatic societal challenges.
Crucial details though are omitted, perhaps purposely. Specifically, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, by 2060 the United States is projected to grow by 79 million people, from today's 326 million to 404 million. Population is not in decline as the column infers. …
Calling all Post editors! Publishing a column about declining population's perils when population is in fact soaring is an example of why the mainstream media's trustworthiness remains well below poll numbers from decades back in the public's eye. …
Many Americans are conflicted about immigration, and deserve to know both sides of the argument. After all, the population increases between today and the mid-2060s represent about a 25 percent bump. If Americans were asked how they feel about 25 percent more people in their already overcrowded neighborhoods, schools and hospitals and on highways, most would be overwhelmingly opposed.
Instead of the full, unvarnished story, readers routinely get a set of cherry-picked facts that the media, abandoning its professional responsibilities, puts forward. Time for the truth, and let the nation come to its own conclusions.
Read the full article here: https://www.dailycitizen.news/opinion/columns/joe-guzzardi-call-to-journalists-return-to-your-professional-standards/article.html
