X-Message-Number: 22710 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:51:55 -0400 From: RANDY WICKER <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #22705 - #22707 References: <> wrote: The United States already accepts more immigrants than EU countries with a substantially larger population. The United States has a lower population density and a greater capacity to feed itself. I personally find it quite plausible that we'll see all countries starting to close their borders as the world fills up. That will probably happen. The important issue isn t The amount of immigration but the quality of the Immigrants. If the United States acts as a magnet for the world s finest and brightest, creating a brain-drain toward itself, immigration will make it stronger and better and enable it to continue to be the dominant power in the world. I can believe that if WW IV turns hot (WW III being the cold war), then we'll see both some of the advancements necessary for space travel and with that a tendency towards re-establishment of national or clan based states(similar to what we saw in Europe after the breakup of the Roman empire). It would be impossible to establish clan-based states in most parts of the United States because we have become a country of mixed racial and ethnic groups. Randolfe H. Wicker > ********************* > Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22710