Crackpot Fantasy: One Billion Americans

Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

Glenn Beck, the well-known former Fox Network anchor, a self-professed conservative, and Blaze TV network owner, teamed up with ultra-liberal Matt Yglesias, the left-wing Vox editor to advocate for a U.S. population of 1 billion.

After an interview with Yglesias, who authored “One Billion Americans: the Case for Thinking Bigger,” Beck tweeted that a 1 billion population, triple of today’s 330 million, is a “noble goal” and “crucial” to keep China from overtaking America as the leading global power. Yglesias and Beck agree that the best way to add approximately 670 million new residents is through immigration.

The Beck/Yglesias concept is so mind-bogglingly outlandish that it barely merits a response. But since Beck and Yglesias represent Trojan Horses for globalist immigration expansionists, a counter is required. Delivered via Beck and Yglesias, expansionists’ sub rosa message to immigration restrictionists is that more people benefits America. Accordingly, Beck urges restrictionists to put jingoism aside, and instead welcome one and all.

But neither globalist puts forward an intelligent, tangible argument for how more people would actually play out on a practical, day-to-day level. No explanation was offered how the migrants would be selected, how they would arrive and at what pace would they come. Then, after the migrants reach America, how would they actually survive?

For his part, Beck repeated the tedious, insulting bon mot that immigrants work harder than “most Americans.” That is Beck’s opinion, factually unsubstantiated, and a direct slap in the fact to about 30 million unemployed Americans. But for the sake of meaningful discussion, Beck should explain where exactly the arriving immigrants would work.

COVID-19 has eliminated thousands of jobs, many of which will never return. Even the pre-COVID unemployment forecast was grim. In 2013, the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology found that at least half of all American jobs are vulnerable to computerization, a trend that’s well-underway in production labor and service industries. The jobs lost plus immigrants added equation means more cheap labor for the industries that may survive computerization, and severely depressed wages for Americans.

Assuming the immigrant labor issue could be resolved – a huge if – then follows the practical questions of where the new migrants would live, how they would transport themselves, how quickly new infrastructure could be built to accommodate them, and what post-migration America would look like. Despite the pandemic, building permits, housing starts and housing completions are moving briskly along. The nation’s highways are gridlocked nightmares, and the 1 billion Americans would live in a country unrecognizable from the one we inhabit today.

In her article, “The Flaw in the Statue of Liberty,” Karen Shragg laid out the compelling case to limit immigration to sensible, sustainable levels. Shragg wrote that more people make numerous negative environmental impacts regardless of their nationality. Since all people are consumers, Shragg said, their collective goal should be to consume less. But that’s unlikely as we all need water, energy, food, jobs and open land – all of which are in limited supply.

With an average multiplier of 3.1 persons per petitioner, chain migration would eventually grow the 670,000 new migrants into more than 2 million. The New York Times provided an excellent example of how chain migration functions as a population atomic bomb. In “One Face of Immigration in America is a Family Tree Rooted in Asia,” the Times reported that a young Indian engineer arrived in America at age 23, and settled in Nevada. Between the 1970s and the mid-1980s, he brought his wife, mother, five sisters and a brother to the U.S. from his native India. Eventually, his siblings sponsored their family members. Over three decades, more than 90 immigrants arrived in the U.S. who can link their presence back to one immigrant.

America needs thoughtful immigration laws that serve its citizens’ best interests, something that neither Beck nor Yglesias wants to promote. Immigration has already dramatically increased U.S. population. Between 1776 and 1965, immigration to the U.S. averaged 250,000 annually. But major legislative changes in 1950s, 1960s and 1990, sent immigration totals skyrocketing.

The Beck/Yglesias fantasy will never become reality. But more rational sounding yet dangerous proposals are routinely introduced in Congress. The latest is the 2,154 page Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, the so-called HEROES Act, which offers amnesty, work permits and fast-track Green Cards to temporary visa holders and to illegal aliens. Knowing that few in Congress would read the lengthy bill, the HEROES sponsor, Nita Lowey (D-NY), made sure to bury the amnesty and work permit provisions on page 2,030. Obscure government is always immigration advocates’ stealth strategy.

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Kid Jupiter
Kid Jupiter

Glenn Beck is a bloated dipshit who looks like Colonel Sanders.

22winmag - I was told about 2020 in 1981
22winmag - I was told about 2020 in 1981

Joe, your immigration shit is tedious.

Trump Admin Approves Record-High 245,000 Green Cards

Glenn Beck is not my favorite Latter Day Saint, but Harrison Ford and Wilford Brimley are pretty high on my list.

For all those of you who didn’t know, the Indiana Jones series of movies were about a lapsed Latter Day Saint’s journey back to spiritual enlightenment and his return to the restored Gospel.

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Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

Up vote for the Wilford Brimley tat and quote, Winnie.

yahsure
yahsure

I had a higher opinion of Mormons until seeing crap from 22wm. He makes Beck seem appealing.

On The Beach
On The Beach

22winmagicunderwear, your mormontard shit is tedious.

Stucky

This is the most accurate picture I’ve posted this year ….

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Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

A very wealthy stupid* pussy.

*Stupid like a fox.

C.temple
C.temple

Well it’s unfortunate you can’t buy dignity.

mark
mark

Beck mixes just enough truth into his bullshit to make himself palatable for the kind of a sewer connoisseurs of his shtick.

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

Con-a-sewer?

mark
mark

Yep that works too.!

TwoDogs
TwoDogs

One billion Americans would be a nightmare. We should be moving in the opposite direction. America was a better place to live and work 40 years ago with 100 million fewer people.

Call me Jack

Amen,and pass the Soylent.

pyrrhuis
pyrrhuis

A return to 100 million would be infinitely superior, and it will happen in the next century, as cropland and water aquifers are being destroyed every day…

Country Boy
Country Boy

Truth be known, we’re probably closer to 1 billion than we know.

SeeBee
SeeBee

There’s always room for one more!
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Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

Much moar and many moar. Moar is best.

Karen
Karen

The signs on the left side of the photo are in Hebrew. Every. Single. Time.

Diaperless in NH ILuvCO2
Diaperless in NH ILuvCO2

I thought NYC was empty??

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

The NWO-Globalist Evil Fucker’s wet dream: overrun the USSA with the Third World and transform it into the Third World, with no active military hot-war mess.

Trust that plan, girls and boys.

Call me Jack

If i wanted to support more useless dependents,i’d get a dog.

pyrrhuis
pyrrhuis

My dog is a lot more useful than 3d world immigrants…

B.S. in V.C.
B.S. in V.C.

Glenn Beck from never Trumper to Trump’s biggest fan, he’s a lying p.o.s.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

We are much more likely to see a US population of 100 million than 1 billion.

Panzerlied

So Beck was just another libtard turd stinking up the punch bowl, while masquerading as a “conservative.”
If he was really rooting for America and true Americans, he would have never been given the opportunity to appear on a TV network.
Lot of “cuckservatives” out there lying through their teeth and continuing to lead the public down the primose path to a first class cell in the commie gulag.
They’re all snakes.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

And still 435 “representatives” too I’m sure.

pyrrhuis
pyrrhuis

So insane that it will be widely embraced by the clown circus….

Dirtperson Steve
Dirtperson Steve

Beck has always been a Judas Goat. 1st he lead the Tea Party right back to the Republicans. Then he tried to do the same with Libertarians. When that didn’t work he went Orange Man Bad but that cost him too much $.

Avoid him no matter what because his shtick has just enough truth to make his Judas Goat antics seem like a good idea.

ottomatik.
ottomatik.

I wouldn’t know, look at that seedy dude, I haven’t listened to a word out of his mouth in over 10 years.
My life is better for it.

Diaperless in NH ILuvCO2
Diaperless in NH ILuvCO2

One billion, dear God, think of the environmental destruction. I like rural, get off my lawn!!

Shotgun Trooper
Shotgun Trooper

The “Lowest common denominator” always points to the answer. When people have to bid for jobs, America suffers. When employers have to bid for workers, America prospers.

Todd H.
Todd H.

Ugh, not going to happen no matter how many Mormo-tards and Cathlo-tards want it to. ‘Merica was a much nicer place when the population was under 200 million.

Brian
Brian

Beck is an opportunistic whore…he only recently came around to support Trump..more like stab him in the back at some future date.

He’s just another version of the pied piper. Tells just enough truth to be believable then salts it with poison.

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