Can the US afford to take in every immigrant in the world , just to give them a better life?

Question

I was told , " If you give a man a fish , you've fed him for one meal . But if you teach a man to fish , he can feed himself forever "
If you have a 4 bedroom home and you take in 40 people , is everyone comfortable and better off ?
At the rate we are taking in immigrants now , by the year 2050 there will be over 400 million people in the US . How many roads , schools and hospitals will have to be built . How much farmland will be leftto farm and what about the drain on water , elecricty , sewer , landfill and National Parks .
Look at the long term effects .
Look at India and China now , are we next ?

Kate G : In the midwest we have no Mexicans on our farms , we farm the land ourselves

Answer 1

Well, let's do the math. Right now, there are roughly 300 million people in the US, out of roughly 7 billion worldwide. That means we're currently under 5% of the total population. Even taking another 5% of the world population would double our population.

Now, we currently are capable of producing much more food than we use ourselves. So, if we use that capacity for in-country use rather than selling it overseas, we could handle up to that many. And huge stretches of the US are largely empty, so space is not really a problem (though, that would impact the environment significantly).

So, can we handle doubling our population? Barely. Should we? Why bother -- it's far easier to provide the technology and help other countries to develop the resources locally, rather than moving the people and providing them here.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I am worried about immigrants in total. We don't have enough resource to sustain ourselves. Maintaining our lifestyle and adding more is environmentally disasterous. I'm worried when CHina and India pollutes as much as Americans per capita. We have more than enough food though. Land wise we could stack them on Large apartment complexes. Hospitals, not a problem if they pay their share of the medical bills. Schools, they have to learn English and if they can't keep up, we shouldn't punish those who want to excel. We are strained already in water and energy. There is no easily solution. We could try going for creating a better world,but that means to decrease the life style of most American.

Answer 4

Nah some natural disaster will wipe out the nation before that occurs. It is some sort of natural system that controls overpopulation. Look at the Tsunami of 2004 or the Earthquakes in the Middle East. Don't forget about Katrina either.

Answer 5

A resounding YES.

I know how much most of you hate immigrants, so at least READ the rest of this before you hit the thumbs-down.

Certainly you would not put 40 people in a 4 bedroom home. But what if, instead, 36 people BUILT more homes? In about 5 years you'd have 20 more homes and you'd need to find more PEOPLE to put in them!

And that's what I think people at Yahoo Answers are getting wrong every single day. You can't paint immigrants with a broad brush. For those that steal identities, live off welfare, deal drugs, and drive drunk and kill people I completely agree. You get a one way ticket back to where you came from (Unless you fly a plane into the World trade Center I guess.......)

But If you WANT to be here, WANT to learn English, want to Assimilate, and want to babysit or wash dishes or clean houses or garden or pick crops you are giving this Country more than you are taking! Then YES there is enough food, enough roads, enough education, enough daycare, because YOU are the ones who are bringing that to us!

Nobody at Yahoo Answers ever gets this.

Note that I have refrained from use of the word "illegal". Sorry not to like everyone's favorite argument, but all "legal" means is that you have won a lottery (or again, flied a plane into the WTC). If a law is poorly written, then it needs to be CHANGED. But if you all are going to continue with "they are breaking the law" at least be aware that Jews in Nazi Germany were also breaking the law.

You may now hit thumbs-down if you like.

Answer 6

Of course we can't. We already have unfair competition and have lost quality of life of our poorest citizens that we used to be able to brag about. Now our poor are not rich by comparison. They live like people in 3rd world countries. And this will only continue to move up the economic ladder. We can't solve the world's problems. We need to take care of our own.
Great question.

Answer 7

Absolutely, we need to solve our problems with immigration. There are always problems when you have large amounts at once. But, I know that being overzealous creates a different problem that can be just as big. The minutemen, who I believe are mostly honorable, accepted help from white supremacist groups to sign people up! All of our problems in the US do not stem from illegal or legal immigration. It's nice to believe most of our problems will go away if there were no immigrants but that simply isn't true. Fruit growers and farmers are having problems getting their crops picked and fields howed. We're not China, we're not Communist, and your numbers are overblown. We use birth control here. 40 people aren't moving into your 4 bedroom house.

I do like your quote. Seems that would work instead of welfare here.

If you give a man a fish , you've fed him for one meal . But if you teach a man to fish , he can feed himself forever "

Answer 8

We have to let them in. I'm a businessman and I need cheap labor. Once more, a few illegals in my workforce scare all the other workers into taking less pay and benefits. They know that if they don't I will fire them and use illegals in their place. This makes my labor costs much lower and I pocket all that money. I contribute to politicians so they will continue allowing illegals easy access to the workplace. I tell the politicians to speak against illegals but don't pass any laws that might hinder me from hiring them. Yeh, they have lots of babies who are U.S. citizens, but most will be under educated and will make good cheap workers someday. I need more profits and will do whatever it takes to get richer.

Answer 9

When you compare our wealth to those in africa, and many other countries, you'd have to admit we could spare a bit. Not to say I want everyone over here, but share it, so they have a reason to stay home.
Try to dig online for some of the stats about what the top 1%, 5%, 10% wealthiest possess vs. the bottom blocks. Pretty scary. They say the top handful of billionaires have more money than so many of the poorest countries combined. This is like, under 200 individuals!!

Answer 10

If you talk to all the people who want to come here they see absolutely nothing wrong with it, like we're some sort of bottomless pit of resources and money and space and benefits, but all they'll end up doing is turning the US into exactly what they left, meaning, an overcrowded, wasteland that is incapable of helping itself, except by providing cheap labor or whatever and giving no thought or effort whatsoever to the destruction that that
brings, to the environment and peoples health and anything else