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Some of the baleful effects of excessive population growth are already evident. In addition to unrestrained urban growth, McNamara notes the increasing inadequacy of Third World agriculture, owing in part to rural overpopulation and economic distortions caused by efforts to palliate the rising tide of urban consumers. In such countries as Tanzania and India, where people depend on firewood for fuel, deforestation is damaging flood control, speeding erosion and adding to the hardship of merely staying alive. Citing the example of China, McNamara warns that rapid population growth may also lead to greater and more coercive state intrusions into private...
Politics, after all, is the art of compromise, and Humphrey was merely practicing the trade. The problem, says Solberg, a former TIME writer and visiting lecturer in history at Columbia University, is that Humphrey was still compromising as the tide of liberalism swept past him. Having failed to gain the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1956 and the presidential spot in 1960, he saw Johnson's 1964 invitation to join him on the ticket as his last hope. Humphrey wanted to be President so badly that he buried his aversion to the Viet Nam conflict. Johnson abused Humphrey shamelessly...
Perhaps the truest identification, however, would be the "Economic and Political Damage Control Act." Economically, the bill is supposed to slow the tide of red ink, before the pressure of that tide pushes interest rates to heights that could damage the nation's robust economic growth. Politically, the bill will enable both Reagan and his Democratic opponents to claim that they took the first, indispensable, though concededly inadequate, steps to control deficits, while still deferring any really painful decisions on taxes and spending until after this year's elections...
...even among the U.S. Hispanic community, which is generally somewhat ambivalent about Simpson-Mazzoli despite the vehement protests of its leaders. Several recent polls of Hispanics turn up substantial support for many of the bill's provisions, including employer sanctions. Like other citizens, these respondents apparently view the tide of illegal immigration, rightly or wrongly, as a threat to both the jobs and wages available to legal residents. Also like other citizens, many of them worry about the capacity of the U.S. to absorb, economically and socially, an uncontrolled flow of aliens. Says Congressman Green: "The bill...
...opponents of Simpson-Mazzoli, however, have been unable to offer any convincing alternative. Some contend that tighter enforcement of wage-and-hour laws in the U.S. and beefing up the INS border patrols could slow the tide of aliens. That seems unlikely; Cornelius, for one, believes that only "fullscale militarization" of the U.S.-Mexican border, a step that nobody advocates, could do the job. Others contend the real solution would be to build up the Mexican economy so that it could offer good jobs to those now crossing the border. But that is wishful thinking: American voters...