Population growth.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:46 am

The US population has hit 300 million people, just 39 years after it reached 200 million, according to US Census Bureau estimates.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6057004.stm

That's a bit startling!

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:14 am

Jaysus, there's a lot of them. Ah well, they have lots of room over there, they'll be alright. I think they should give U.S. Citizen number 300,000,000 some kinda prize, like a shot on American Idol, or maybe a bit part in CSI Miami.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:13 am

Galbally wrote: Jaysus, there's a lot of them. Ah well, they have lots of room over there, they'll be alright. I think they should give U.S. Citizen number 300,000,000 some kinda prize, like a shot on American Idol, or maybe a bit part in CSI Miami. thinking:

I was interested in the rate of growth... the population of much of Europe has,

I imagine, stayed within a few percent of figures 40 years ago. How come the

#States has had such a growth? Is much of it immigration?

Katy1 · Post by **Katy1** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:05 pm

Bill Sikes wrote: I was interested in the rate of growth... the population of much of Europe has,

I imagine, stayed within a few percent of figures 40 years ago. How come the

#States has had such a growth? Is much of it immigration?

That is interesting, what are the US's immigration policies like? Anyone know?

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:06 pm

Bill Sikes wrote: I was interested in the rate of growth... the population of much of Europe has,

I imagine, stayed within a few percent of figures 40 years ago. How come the

#States has had such a growth? Is much of it immigration?

40% of the growth is from immigration, 60% is from births outnumbering deaths..

Katy1 · Post by **Katy1** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:13 pm

zinkyusa wrote: 40% of the growth is from immigration, 60% is from births outnumbering deaths..

And you'd think on a diet of McDonalds, Coke and Oprah you'd all be dead at 40:wah:

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:19 pm

Katy1 wrote: And you'd think on a diet of McDonalds, Coke and Oprah you'd all be dead at 40:wah:

that's right we all weigh 300lbs, and do nothing but sit in front of the tv all day:wah:

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:22 pm

Katy1 wrote: And you'd think on a diet of McDonalds, Coke and Oprah you'd all be dead at 40:wah:

Dont eat Mcdonalds, I am a Pepsi guy, Yup Oprah would surely make me shoot myself.:wah:

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:23 pm

zinkyusa wrote: 40% of the growth is from immigration, 60% is from births outnumbering deaths..

Wow! Is there an on-line resource with the stats.?

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:34 pm

I read in this story:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15298443/

The U.S. adds about 2.8 million people a year, for a growth rate of less than 1 percent. About 40 percent of the growth comes from immigration. The rest comes from births outnumbering deaths.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:36 pm

Bill Sikes wrote: I was interested in the rate of growth... the population of much of Europe has,

I imagine, stayed within a few percent of figures 40 years ago. How come the

#States has had such a growth? Is much of it immigration?

I am pretty sure the population of the EU is around 480 million, but the whole of Europe is more cause of Russia and Ukraine and all those ex-eastern-block countries. America does have a very high population increase rate, partly like someone said becuase of immigration and partly because of high birth rates. Its the sign of the healthy american libido if notthing else. Go America! is what I say, and of course always be protected if your having casual sex, not that I'm advocating casual sex, or contraception if your against that sort of thing, but you know what I mean.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:32 am

Why? are the white people too uptight? There would be quite a lot of "European" in hispanic (whatever that means) people as well wouldn't there? I thought they were the largest immigrant grouping?

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:37 am

I wonder if the population of Mexico is decreasing.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:57 am

Accountable wrote: I wonder if the population of Mexico is decreasing.

Interesting point?

No they probably have waves of immigrants from nicuragua and el salvador, its like a conveyor belt, all the white folk will end up living in innuit territory, they're better in the cold anyway.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:21 am

Scrat wrote: I wouldn't say that it's just that "native" Americans aren't having children like we used too. Me and my Sigo are DINKS. Dual income no kids. Personally I don't want to have kids because of the really screwed up situation in the schools and the fact that they would have to go to school in some of the worst conditions imaginable. There are others.

Seems that Hispanics don't believe in birthcontrol either. Many people coming into America now are from further south than Mexico. It is like a conveyor belt Gal.

Sorry I get confused with all these hypenated americans, when you say native american do you mean you are a white people, or what we used to call Indians? (You know my friend is married to a girl from New Delhi, I must ask her what Indian people ever made of Europeans calling indigenous americans Indians), they just probably looked at each other shrugged and smiled sadly. Oh well.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:31 pm

We are besieged by illegal immigration here. And we're the victims of our own prosperity.

The "good" news? I don't think anyone's happy with this kind of population growth. (Well, if you're Mormon or Roman Catholic, perhaps you are.)

The "bad" news? It might take a solution such as the Chinese have implemented to stop the birth rate and it WILL take a "wall" of some sort to stop illegal immigration.