Note:
Ben Wattenberg made his extreme right-wing reputation by "not
pulling any punches"; unfortunately, he inspired the same in
his political opposition (now more mature) as well.
With just a few swipes of his corrupted pen, Ben
Wattenberg ("Democratic Nations Should Beware of the Birth
Dearth", Times, 1/3/85, and "Poverty is Not as Bad
Here as the Bishops Believe", Times, 12/26/84)
dismisses all human problems and condemns all solutions to
them...
Doesn't he know that the United States, with
just 5% of the world's population, uses 40% of the world's
critically scarce energy? Doesn't he realize that the world is
already critically short of such other vital resources as fresh
water and strategic materials? To get this latter stuff is why
the U.S. kisses up to such dictatorships as [the then-apartheid
government] in South Africa! Doesn't he realize that
overpopulation in Third World nations, which do lack
freedoms, must be humanely countered not by our vainly trying to
out-reproduce them but by agricultural, industrial, and
educational aid coupled with intense birth-control efforts?
Unbelievably, these liberating, friend-making, profitable
actions are being successfully suppressed by such reactionaries
as Wattenberg!
And doesn't he even see the hunger,
homelessness, and un- and under-employment in our own
once-compassionate, intelligent America? For shame, Mr.
Wattenberg and all your greedy ilk! You should know better!