A family has certain fixed parameters like a house with a fixed space limit and a fixed monthly income which varies only within predictable limits. Now, if the house and the income are meant ideally for a family of four, then with the number of children crossing two and increasing to four or five, tremendous pressure is created upon space and income. Living becomes unhealthy, water becomes insufficient, nutrition gets affected for worse, education of children gets affected for worse and stress and tension become the order of the day. Grown up children fall in bad company and fail to find gainful employment. Weddings make the situation go beyond control.

A country has fixed land and other resources ideally meant for a population that can subsist with a reasonable per capita income and available opportunities. With the population going beyond that limit create havoc for the country and the society like in that micro family unit. Lack of education outlets, lack of health and nutrition facilities, shortage of drinking water, unemployment, poverty and increasing crimes dog the society.

Now let us focus on the most dangerous situation of a surplus or floating population that is fast becoming a curse for countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and others. Problems are always rooted to the village level as all citizens are basically linked to the villages. As the cultivable land becomes increasingly fragmented due to multiplying members of farmer families many of them no longer are able to make a livelihood out of farming. A surplus population not supported by cultivation is thus created and if daily wage work is not sufficiently available in a particular area, this surplus population starts migrating to the cities.

They create the far more dangerous problem of a floating population in urban areas adding to the pressure on basic amenities. Illegal tenements on streets and pavements come up with no water or sanitation facilities. As they are desperate for a livelihood and have basically nothing to lose they stop at nothing to make some money. Apart from the routine works of sweeping, cleaning, rag picking and household chores they start petty crimes like snatching, mugging, robbing and even killing and join underworld dons in major cities. With terror becoming a global industry this huge unemployed population, consisting of both permanent and floating segments, is a time bomb.

Tags : Population, Poverty, Society

Others know what we have forgotten, this country is unique in all the world. No other people anywhere enjoy the freedoms that we do. The freedom to get ahead in life. Be more, make more and have more than our parents did, and not just monetarily, but in all ways, more education, more opportunities, more adventures. We have the power to become anything we want to be, but the drive has to come from within, not given from a government social programs.

Our country is built on the shoulders of men and women who understood the cost of freedom, who understood the right to bear arms, gather peacefully, address the government for redress, worship who, what and where they please. Our country was founded on basic decency, morality, honesty, integrity, and the satisfaction of a job well done. If we keep these fundamental values in place we have a bright and shining future, if we don’t, we will fall like every great civilization before us, when a society becomes too wealthy, moral decline ensues and thereafter comes the fall of that civilization. It is a cycle as sure as the cycle of the moon.

As citizens we need to fly our nations colors with pride and respect. Our government’s flags needs to fly with patriotism and a renewal of appreciation for this great country that we are privileged to live in. Other countries understand the great freedoms we so take for granted and that is why we have the immigration problems that we do. If our country is so terrible why are they risking live and limb to be here? Because it is a wonderful land of opportunities and freedoms, and it isn’t so terrible, lets keep it that way.

Tags : Education, Government, Government Social Programs