US Population Nears 300 Million . . . .

[Cito Pelon]

No wonder we have problems getting along. We in the West are not used to all the people around. The US population was 150 million about 15 years ago. Here in the mountain west, we're not used to all these people. I'm not used to this, gives me the yips.

Anybody else in the mountain west wants to exercise states right's to limit immigration? My quality of life has taken a drastic downturn. State your view.

[Spider]

Originally Posted by Cito Pelon

No wonder we have problems getting along. We in the West are not used to all the people around. The US population was 150 million about 15 years ago. Here in the mountain west, we're not used to all these people. I'm not used to this, gives me the yips.

Anybody else in the mountain west wants to exercise states right's to limit immigration? My quality of life has taken a drastic downturn. State your view.

I left Colorado 13 years ago because to many people moved in ..........but telling people where to live goes against freedom , there are plenty of wide open spaces left in the west ...

[baja]

Here's one here in Wyoming;

[Spider]

Originally Posted by baja

Here's one here in Wyoming;

prime homesteading land there Bubba

[W*GS]

Originally Posted by Cito Pelon

No wonder we have problems getting along. We in the West are not used to all the people around. The US population was 150 million about 15 years ago.

The US population was way more than 150 million in 1993. It was about 150 million in 1950, dope.

Geezus, you're dumb.

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by W*GS

The US population was way more than 150 million in 1993. It was about 150 million in 1950, dope.

Geezus, you're dumb.

That was totally uncalled for.

[baja]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

That was totally uncalled for.

Things have been getting fairly ugly around here, myself included. It's to the point that I am asking my self is this all that much fun anymore.

[Rohirrim]

We should institute a rule that you talk to anybody on this forum as if they were sitting on the bar stool next to you. In reality, half of what is said here would get somebody punched in the mouth and you just wouldn't say it. Everybody has to drop the internet tough guy crap.

[Los Broncos]

Originally Posted by baja

Things have been getting fairly ugly around here, myself included. It's to the point that I am asking my self is this all that much fun anymore.

I feel ya, i haven't been involved but it seems like we all hate each other.

And i know its the internet...

[Rohirrim]

[Los Broncos]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

[cutthemdown]

Originally Posted by baja

Things have been getting fairly ugly around here, myself included. It's to the point that I am asking my self is this all that much fun anymore.

I'll take the first leap. I will no longer make personal insults or attacks part of my posts.

[cutthemdown]

Originally Posted by baja

Here's one here in Wyoming;

Whats that structure to the left? a 5 star bush hotel?

[Cito Pelon]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

That was totally uncalled for.

thanks for the support. As for population I was looking at the Mountain West. I don't know what to say about the Mountain West, it's getting crazy out here. These are generally nice people, but there's that 10% that I'd like to shoot and bury. I'm not used to this, this is new stuff for me. There's so many people here, it gives me the creeps. Seems like I can't hike a K without seeing some smiling face, and my dogs get into a confrontation. Used to be I could ramble all over and the dogs would meet no other dogs. Gives me the creeps that I see so many people.

[Meck77]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

We should institute a rule that you talk to anybody on this forum as if they were sitting on the bar stool next to you. In reality, half of what is said here would get somebody punched in the mouth and you just wouldn't say it. Everybody has to drop the internet tough guy crap.

That would be a good rule across the site actually.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Originally Posted by Cito Pelon

thanks for the support. As for population I was looking at the Mountain West. I don't know what to say about the Mountain West, it's getting crazy out here. These are generally nice people, but there's that 10% that I'd like to shoot and bury. I'm not used to this, this is new stuff for me. There's so many people here, it gives me the creeps. Seems like I can't hike a K without seeing some smiling face, and my dogs get into a confrontation. Used to be I could ramble all over and the dogs would meet no other dogs. Gives me the creeps that I see so many people.

Yep, the country is being overrun and over populated, polluted and trashed. Try going to Yellowstone or another National Park now-a-days, so many people that it isn't worth it at all. All my fishing holes (Skinny Fish, Miracle Mile, Pathfinder, Fairplay, the Colorado, Miramonte, the Frying Pan, etc...) are people polluted now too.

[W*GS]

Originally Posted by Bronco_Beerslug

Yep, the country is being overrun and over populated, polluted and trashed.

I bet your parents and grandparents felt the same way - but they still made it possible for you to exist.

Funny how people with this complaint always make it about others, not themselves.

[cutthemdown]

We have plenty of land for everyone the real problem is the infrastrucuture of the country. We simply can't expect to move 500 million people around in 50 years if we don't do something about how we travel.

We need a network of high speed bullet trains or people will sit on freeway for 6 hours a day trying to get to work.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by Cito Pelon

Anybody else in the mountain west wants to exercise states right's to limit immigration?

First, we need to round up all the illegal immigrants (or as many of them as possible) and send them packing back to where they came from (via action on both the federal and the state level.)

Then we need to implement Pat Buchanan's ideas re: a temporary moratorium on all immigration.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Originally Posted by W*GS

I bet your parents and grandparents felt the same way - but they still made it possible for you to exist.

Funny how people with this complaint always make it about others, not themselves.

Never heard any of them complain about over population problems (because there were none). Of course, there were no waiting lines or required reservations to enter/use federal lands and National Parks, in their day. The country is only so big and we have reached the saturation point.

But if you don't live out of or venture away from the metro areas it probably doesn't matter much to you.

[Cito Pelon]

Originally Posted by Spider

I left Colorado 13 years ago because to many people moved in ..........but telling people where to live goes against freedom , there are plenty of wide open spaces left in the west ...

I started this as just a general lament about too dang many people. I realize trying to tell people where to live is a dangerous road to go down.

I don't know what the solution is. It just gives me the creeps going to places where I used to go to and it was wide open and quiet, now there's four-wheelers galore. It's getting very difficult to get away from the sound of a motor.

[Cito Pelon]

Hell, last summer we hiked up to a cirque lake on the Divide that we had been fishing for twenty years without the sound of a motor, and sonofab**** if two guys on fourwheelers roll up wanting to talk fishing. It's legal for them to do that, and they were nice guys, but we sure as hell didn't want them around. I figure some places should be reserved for hiking to, you gotta earn it. Too many places in the Rockies these days, you don't gotta earn it, you just buy a fourwheeler.

[baja]

Originally Posted by Cito Pelon

Hell, last summer we hiked up to a cirque lake on the Divide that we had been fishing for twenty years without the sound of a motor, and sonofab**** if two guys on fourwheelers roll up wanting to talk fishing. It's legal for them to do that, and they were nice guys, but we sure as hell didn't want them around. I figure some places should be reserved for hiking to, you gotta earn it. Too many places in the Rockies these days, you don't gotta earn it, you just buy a fourwheeler.

On this we agree 100%

Snowmobiles are the worst.

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by Bronco_Beerslug

Yep, the country is being overrun and over populated, polluted and trashed. Try going to Yellowstone or another National Park now-a-days, so many people that it isn't worth it at all. All my fishing holes (Skinny Fish, Miracle Mile, Pathfinder, Fairplay, the Colorado, Miramonte, the Frying Pan, etc...) are people polluted now too.

Don't worry about it. That trend will be reduced drastically in a few decades. The other night I was watching my new "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" DVD. There is a part where the police captain, Bryan, is showing pics of the replicants. He gets to Pris and says something about how she is a standard sex model for off world entertainment, and a light went off in my head. In fifty years, guys will just have their own Darryl Hannah, Jessica Alba, Salma Hayak, or whoever else they want, in the closet, ready whenever they want. Women will have whatever versions they want, the John Holmes or Brad Pitt model. Hell, we'll all be screwing robots! The population will go way down.

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Don't worry about it. That trend will be reduced drastically in a few decades. The other night I was watching my new "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" DVD. There is a part where the police captain, Bryan, is showing pics of the replicants. He gets to Pris and says something about how she is a standard sex model for off world entertainment, and a light went off in my head. In fifty years, guys will just have their own Darryl Hannah, Jessica Alba, Salma Hayak, or whoever else they want, in the closet, ready whenever they want. Women will have whatever versions they want, the John Holmes or Brad Pitt model. Hell, we'll all be screwing robots! The population will go way down.

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