They’re Billionaires, but They Can't Add Two and Two

 

March 12, 2025

 

I don’t generally pay attention to the pearls of wisdom that fall from the lips of such people as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, so I brushed off their comments about how the lower birth rate was going to cause a global economic meltdown. But about 2 weeks ago someone sent me a video that made me pay attention.

 

According to these intellectual giants, the world’s population is shrinking, and that is a bad thing. They contend that more people lead to more money being made, the world’s economy keeps growing, and people don’t starve to death. 

I think they’ve missed the part where having more people means more crowding and disease, less arable land, and consequently, less of a food supply. People starve to death. 

 

I think they’ve missed the part where Earth’s resources are already stretched thin: Clean water is disappearing; air is unbreathable in places; seas are rising and will be driving population inland, further depleting farmland, etc. I think they’ve missed the part where Earth’s population keeps growing—just not where they want it to.

 

If they’re worried about having more of a population in the U.S., they should consider an obvious alternative: Redistribution of population. Encourage people to leave countries where the population is starving, and bring them here, so that they can eat, earn money, and buy from Amazon and get Cybertrucks. 

 

Oh, wait. That’s called IMMIGRATION.

 

What's the Penalty for Being Wrong?

 

December 4, 2024

 

A Missouri lawmaker wants to give people $1,000 if they turn in undocumented immigrants.

The idea started as a portal where people could submit names for the government to check out. But, according to the Post-Dispatch, the lawmaker wants to create a program that “would certify applicants to be bounty hunters for the purpose of finding and detaining undocumented immigrants in the state.”

Rabid people keeping an eye out for people with darker skin and foreign accents, with a cash incentive to turn them in, and blanket approval to detain them. What could go wrong? If you’re not picturing harassment and potential physical harm, you haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on around the country.

I have a friend who was born and raised in South America, and became an American citizen 40 years ago. She still has an accent. Will someone try to determine if she is a legal citizen? How?

Will there be a provision in the bill that says if a “bounty hunter” harasses an American citizen who has an accent, they will have to pay compensation to the citizen? Do jail time? If the person isn’t a citizen, and gets roughed up, will they get compensation? Will the assailant go to jail? What kind of brakes would be on this program?

Please let this idea go to that great Shredder in the Sky.