Possible GOP Presidential candidate Marco Rubio, whose father entered the US illegally, says the US is full up, that there just isn’t any room left in the US for new immigrants, including the children arriving at the border with Mexico. But when you actually consider how much space there is in the country, that’s obviously untrue.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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On immigration: “We’re full up”
On overpopulation “you could fit the entire planet’s population in the state of Texas”
Inconsistency, thy name is Republican.
Did he really say that about Texas? (I’ve tried Google and can’t find it.)
It was meant as a general observation about the mindset. I’ve heard it repeatedly, but not necessarily from Rubio.
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O-o-o-o-h-h-h…!
My bad.
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Dunno, Ted – here in Sweden with the population density rapidly approaching 24 persons/km², I’m beginning to get twinges of claustrophobia when I look out the window at the pines and the spruces, not to mention when I travel to Denmark, with a population density of 130 persons/km², or still worse, the Netherlands, with a density of 406 persons/km². I find myself getting nervous and asking if that’s where we’re headed, particularly if global warming makes southern regions of Europe uninhabitable and people begin migrating northward in droves. Perhaps Mr Rubio simply realises that you people, too, with a population density of some 32.41 persons/km², are on a slippery slope, and wishes to stop the slide before it accelerate so much that it becomes unstoppable. Too bad about his Dad, though….
Henri