A Guest Of One's Time And Not

...there Is An Optimal Balance, Depending On The Manner Of Man's Life, Between The Density Of Human Population And The Tolerances Of Nature. This Balance, In The Case Of The United States Would Seem To Me To Have Been Surpassed When The American Population Reached, At A Very Maximum, Two Hundred Million People, And Perhaps A Good Deal Less.

A Foreign Policy Aimed At The Achievement Of Total Security Is The One Thing I Can Think Of That Is Entirely Capable Of Bringing This Country To A Point Where It Will Have No Security At All.

It Is Obviously Easier, For The Short Run, To Draw Cheap Labor From Adjacent Pools Of Poverty...than To Find It Among One's Own People. And To The Millions Of Such Prospective Immigrants From Poverty To Prosperity, There Is, Rightly Or Wrongly, No Place That Looks More Attractive Than The United States. Given Its Head, And Subject To No Restrictions, This Pressure Will Find Its Termination Only When The Levels Of Overpopulation And Poverty In The United States Are Equal To Those Of The Countries From Which These People Are Now So Anxious To Escape.

A Guest Of One's Time And Not A Member Of The Household.

Bearing All This In Mind, We See That There Is No Russian National Understanding Which Would Permit The Early Establishment In Russia Of Anything Resembling The Private Enterprise System As We Know It.