I agree that government policies policies can have a bad effect, although I would argue that some of the worst policies are in response to the overpopulation situation no one wants to talk about.

Of course, the government could distort the price mechanism, for example, in artificially inflating home prices with easy monetary policy, irresponsible lending incentives, conflicted rating agencies, and a mortgage workout plan.

Oh, you might be right. But lets reduce government first, before indulging any eugenic fantasies, ok?

If the US had a third less people we would not be dependant on petroleum based farming(that is petroleum based fertelizer and long supply chains) to feed our population. We also could supply electricity in more earth friendly manners. As it is now we can barely supply enough energy to keep up with the needs of a growing population and that means making good choices like solar and wind but also probably trying unproven and expensive sources like nuclear energy.

The reason that we are running out of good choices is that we have too many people and they are stressing out the entire system. We need the ad council to start making ads about the problems of big families. Then again maybe not, the anti-smoking ads produced by the ad council make me want to smoke, who knows what anti-procreation ads would make people want to do.

At some point we wont be able to feed the ever growing population not to mention the fact that too many people use up resources and make the world a less enjoyable place to live.

Any way you look at it people are expensive and it is foolish to keep encouraging people to have more of them.

This is simpler than simple math. Why the resistance to the facts?

The idea that we need to produce people to pay into social security doesn’t make much sense, if the US finds itself with a shortage of people we can allow more immigration. The world is not in danger of running out of people.