While I don't disagree with the sentiment of NOT bulldoznig wildlands for walmarts, everything else you said is pretty much wrong. We're NOT experiencing a population decline. Our population IS growing by most metrics. Both through immigration and through birth rates.
The birth rate thing is a giant lie that's manipulated by statistical oddities. For example, for decades the western world (including the US) has done EVERYTHING we could to lower and eliminate teenage birth rates. And we've largely been successful. Teenage birthrates are at a historical low to the point they're a rounding error in the grand scheme of things at this point. But despite this teenagers (and in some places girls as young as 10-12) are counted in birth rate statistics. In the US specifically they make up roughly 20-30% of the "birthing age female population).
So you have a fifth to nearly a third of the statistic group, actively being manipulated by outside forces to NOT do the thing you're testing. That obviously throws off final stats greatly. If you throw out that group and account for only "acceptable birthing age" the US birth rate is like 2.0-2.1, and some years 2.2 or above. Combine that with net immigration (even just limited legal immigration which most people are alright with), and we still have a healthy growing population.
PERSONALLY, I do agree though that we need to spend less time and money on developing new ghettos and slums (let's be honest, that's all section 8 is), and more time and money on fixing up the dilapidated parts of our existing cities and revitalizing our own small towns. Though realistically I don't think any of this is really going to be a problem. Post cabal, when the economy is infinitely better and there's a massive boom in production jobs, things like small town and ghetto revitalization will happen naturally and eliminate the need for stuff like this.
The only REAL use for this kind of thing in my opinion is to open up and privatize the massive amounts of farm and ranch land out west to farmers and ranchers. I mean serious, half the state is owned by the feds in Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona. Most of the Prime land with good water is fed land which forces farmers and ranchers to fight for leases with good water. I'd be open to something like that.
While I don't disagree with the sentiment of NOT bulldoznig wildlands for walmarts, everything else you said is pretty much wrong. We're NOT experiencing a population decline. Our population IS growing by most metrics. Both through immigration and through birth rates.
The birth rate thing is a giant lie that's manipulated by statistical oddities. For example, for decades the western world (including the US) has done EVERYTHING we could to lower and eliminate teenage birth rates. And we've largely been successful. Teenage birthrates are at a historical low to the point they're a rounding error in the grand scheme of things at this point. But despite this teenagers (and in some places girls as young as 10-12) are counted in birth rate statistics. In the US specifically they make up roughly 20-30% of the "birthing age female population).
So you have a fifth to nearly a third of the statistic group, actively being manipulated by outside forces to NOT do the thing you're testing. That obviously throws off final stats greatly. If you throw out that group and account for only "acceptable birthing age" the US birth rate is like 2.0-2.1, and some years 2.2 or above. Combine that with net immigration (even just limited legal immigration which most people are alright with), and we still have a healthy growing population.
PERSONALLY, I do agree though that we need to spend less time and money on developing new ghettos and slums (let's be honest, that's all section 8 is), and more time and money on fixing up the dilapidated parts of our existing cities and revitalizing our own small towns. Though realistically I don't think any of this is really going to be a problem. Post cabal, when the economy is infinitely better and there's a massive boom in production jobs, things like small town and ghetto revitalization will happen naturally and eliminate the need for stuff like this.
The only REAL use for this kind of thing in my opinion is to open up and privatize the massive amounts of farm and ranch land out west to farmers and ranchers. I mean serious, half the state is owned by the feds in Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona. Most of the Prime land with good water is fed land which forces farmers and ranchers to fight for leases with good water. I'd be open to something like that.