DOWN WITH GROWTHISM! (NPG Footnote)

• Leon Bouvier
• February 1, 1995
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DOWN WITH GROWTHISM!
An NPG Forum Paper
(NPG Footnote) 
by Leon F Bouvier
February 1995

Acceptance of Proposition 187 by California voters will undoubtedly lead to an acceleration of name-calling by advocates of continued high levels of immigration. Racists, xenophobics, nativists, and worse are typical epithets aimed at those of us who favor reductions in immigration, legal and illegal.

Let me be candid about this. Sadly, a few Americans do favor immigration reduction for the wrong reasons. The “browning of America” bothers them. I totally reject the arguments of people like Pat Buchanan. Whether immigrants speak Swahili or Cockney is no matter to me, their numbers are my concern.

U.S. population should be reduced if the quality of life of all Americans is to remain high. The evidence is overwhelming that 260 million is far above the carrying capacity of the nation. Our resources are being depleted; our environment is worsening; our infrastructure cannot keep pace with growth. Now is the time to say enough. Let’s get started on the road to an eventual population of 150 million, or about the same as it was in 1950.

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