Lots of kids
+ McMansions
+ SUV's
+ "W" stickers
= ENTITLEMENT (at least in a symbolic sense)

How could anyone not find this to be nauseating? These are the same folks who are pro-war, anti-choice. These are the same reasons why Americans are no longer respected or esteemed in the rest of the world. Because a particular sector of the population covets a particular lifestyle with particular elements in it, some idiot in Washington thinks he has a mandate to go fight wars to bring "Democracy" to the places where fossil fuels come from.
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With all due respect, people have a right to as many or as few kids as they feel like having and feel like they can care for. You cannot hold poor people responsible for our ills because they're victims. Trans-generational trauma is a reality. And trauma always revisits traumatized people. Look what happened after Katrina. But people with means and education must hold themselves to different standards. It is irresponsible and profoundly narcissistic to think the world exists only to make the latest version of the "American Dream" possible.

As for the recent statistics on population growth in the US, I know enough about how statistics are arrived at to understand that one set of results can be interpreted in a multitude of ways. You'd actually be surprised if you knew what my qualifications are...