The New York Times` Big Lie About Population Growth


It`s official: as Director
of

NumbersUSA`s
Media Standards Project, I can
reveal that The New York Times is one of
the nominees for my Most Intellectually
Dishonest Newspaper In America Award.
(Competition is fierce!)

The Times spins half-truths,
omissions and factual errors into

editorials
and

stories
that support its fantasy interpretation of
the National Question. Not even the supermarket rag
The Globe
can match the Times for distortion.

I have criticized the Times

before
and could easily rake it over the coals every
day. But out of respect for VDARE.COM reader`s appetite
for variety, I limit myself to only the most egregious
outrages.

Accordingly, today we`ll take a hard
look at the Times` annual Ain`t-All-This-Population-Growth-Grand
editorial. But before pressing on to the main event, let
me first remove one burr that has been stuck in my saddle
for a while.

Last fall, the Times published,

“A September 11 Reading List.”
The list recommended
30 books that deal with the events of 9/11 and the
related subjects of

terrorism
,

Islam
and

Afghanistan
. Times reporters wrote five (5) of
the books.

Conspicuously missing from the list:
Michelle Malkin`s,

Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists,
Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores
.

Michelle`s book, well reviewed on
Amazon.com and praised on numerous talk radio programs [VDARE.COM
note
: and by

Peter Brimelow
!
], spent several weeks on
the New York Times best-seller non-fiction list
and reached #14. But it was not reviewed by the Times
– and that omission was not repaired in its 9/11 roundup.
The only explanation for this snub: the aforementioned
intellectual dishonesty of the Times. The

Gray Lady
doesn`t permit other voices with differing
views.

That`s important, because the
Times
sets the national media agenda. No other

major newspaper
reviewed

Invasion
either.

Now unburdened, I can turn my
attention to today`s business: the Times` March 17th
editorial titled

Humanity`s Slowing Growth.

According to a recent

United Nations report
, population growth rates are
dropping dramatically round the world. The U.S. is the
only developed country whose population will rise over
the next decades–and it will rise dramatically.

The Times uses the U.N study
as a vehicle to chide

Paul Ehrlich
and his work,

The Population Bomb
. Smaller family size is the
main reason that population will level off and then
decline in developed countries like Japan and Italy.

Then the Times, referencing
the U.N. study, writes that America`s population “is
projected to be 409 million in 2050 up from 285 million
today.”
It must not have checked the

Population Clock
on

www.census.gov
. By the time you read this, the U.S.
population will be close to 291 million. This major
oversight came despite the fact that the Times has
an editorial page staff of

30 writers, editors and columnists
.

How, according to the Times,
will our population get to 409 million? America will
become one of only eight countries that will account
for half the global population growth
in the next
fifty
years because of:

“…a
higher fertility rate and immigration…”

This is blatantly misleading. An
accurate way to account for an additional 118 million
people who will inhabit America by 2050 would be to write
as follows:


“…high annual levels of legal
immigration and an equally high annual illegal alien
influx boosted by a high fertility rate among those
immigrants and aliens…”

I don`t want to weigh this essay
down with statistics that VDARE. COM readers are intimately
familiar with. But just to provide some prospective: the
U.S. currently takes in about one million legal
immigrants annually and looks the other way at another
one million illegal aliens. And about 750,000

births
occur annually to mothers born

outside of the U.S.

From the illegal immigration total
one has to deduct deportations, out migration and deaths.
That`s roughly 350,000 people. So the U.S population
adds approximately 2.4 million people every year directly
because of immigration.

The Times winked at the role
of fertility levels in population growth. But Latinos,
heavily immigrants or recent immigrants, have larger
numbers of children per family—about 3—than non-Hispanic
whites or African-American—about 2. Again, more proof
that immigration fuels population growth.

You think a future in 2050 that
includes 40% more people in your community might
be…unpleasant? You just don`t have the big New York
Times
picture.

According to the Times, this
mushrooming growth:

“…will
improve our

economic
prospects.”

The Times offered up an
incoherent explanation of how things will be better
citing the usual suspects—the

aging domestic population
will need the new workers
to fund the health care needs for longer-living citizens,
blah, blah, blah.

In fact, of course, the consensus
among
labor economists
, as established by the National
Research Council`s 1997 report

The New Americans
,
is that immigration does not
add significantly to Americans` wealth – and is a
significant cost in some states, because of transfer
payments like

education
,
emergency room care
and

welfare
.

And don`t be so naïve as to think
that if things get better in the Third World, immigration
might slow down.

The Times has this warning
for you:

“No
matter how much progress is made, there will be large
population shifts to better-off nations. The immigrants
will need the jobs and the richer countries will need the

workers
. So increasing the orderly, legal migration
of labor from poorer to richer countries in the next few
decades is a global imperative. Those who oppose this
trend [
i.e. VDARE.COM] will be embracing economic
suicide.”

There you have it—as plain as day!
Immigration is nothing less than a

global imperative
! We are doomed to more immigration
no matter what happens.

By the way, the other seven
countries joining the U.S. in exploding populations
between now and 2050 are: India, Pakistan, Nigeria,
China, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Congo.

The Times had no comment on
the company that we`re keeping.


Joe Guzzardi [email
him], an instructor in English at the Lodi
Adult School, has been writing a weekly newspaper column
since 1988. This column is exclusive to VDARE.COM.