I recently received this email by Lou Pritchett, a well-known public speaker who retired after a successful 36-year career as the VP World Sales for Proctor and Gamble.

Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America 's true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "partnering." Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

 You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.  

 You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

 You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.    

 You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

 You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

 You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

 You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', and are always blaming others.   

 You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

 You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America ' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

 You scare me because you want to change  America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector. 

 You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one. 

 You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

 You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

 You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

 You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

 You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

 You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

 You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

 You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

 You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing. 

 Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

 Lou Pritchett

I have looked in vain for any sort of comment or article or study or recommendation or opinion that there is any connection between our dwindling natural resources (air, water, oil, etc) and irresponsible family planning.  Or maybe it would be more accurate to say No Family Planning!.  We are literally "screwing" ourselves to death...worldwide.  Why cannot normal couples, that is man and woman see the connection between having a raft of kids and running out of clean air and water?   Must be their own personal egos have gotten in the way of their common sense...why else would they deliberately have 3 or 4 children in the face of our global deterioration of essential resources?  Got to be EGO!  Every child born today will be a driver on our already overcrowded roads in 16 years!  Every child today will be sucking in clean air and drinking clean water from the moment they are born, two resources that are constantly overused and in dangerously short supply.  Every child will, in about 5 years, require a classroom and a teacher to babysit them for the next dozen years.  They require food that requires oil, air and water to produce.  Well, you get the idea if you have an I.Q. at least equal to a houseplant!  Most of these mothers seem willing to have someone else raise their kid so they can return to work.  Don't they ever realize this is part of the child-making decision, BEFORE stopping birth control methods? 

Who is to blame for this disastrous overpopulation activity?  Well, first of all, as a readily identifiable group, I blame the Catholic Church, who blindly goes along banning birth control, an idea that belonged in the 16th Century.  Then I blame today's parents who won't let the schools teach sex education.  Then I blame the parents who won't force their children to go to school and actually see that they learn something.  I blame the schools for hiring babysitters instead of teachers. (of course we have to put part of the blame on the unions who insist on tenure regardless of talent)  I blame the government agencies that reward females with children out-of-wedlock...rewards that are sufficient to keep them in the baby-making business.  I blame any institution, private or public, that will not support mandatory sterilization of unwed mothers.  I blame society, both religious and non who do not publicly denounce these miscreants.  Make shame a part of Sunday's sermon again.   How about the parents who support their pregnant daughters and congratulate the father BEFORE the wedding?  Shame on them.  Maybe we need more abortions, at least once then sterilization to guarantee this female doesn't do this again to the taxpayers.  And the man too! Snip Snip!   Yes, the taxpayers are picking up the tab, somewhere along the line, eventually this child will take part in the government payout plans.  Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Disability...ADC; all adults eventually funnel into this "free" source of money.  

It is time we take responsibility for our actions and not expect the world to pay for our bad judgments.  If we can keep the births down to one family-one child, then maybe over the next 50 years or so the world's natural resources will be able to recover.  If not we need to remind ourselves the all the water on our earth today is all their ever will be...it cannot be manufactured.  Same goes for all the air and all the land...WYSIWYG.    

We have already been publicly warned that humans have exceeded the Earth's "limits of sustainability", now in 2009.  We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population, researchers say as the planet can't support many more people.  

Can you even imagine wars over food? clean air? drinkable water?   When there are more people than there is food to feed them the strong will survive and the weak will die.  It happens every day somewhere in the world today.  We are just more fortunate here in the USA that others.

So, to put an end to this rant, start thinking that a raft of kids is not something to be proud of...it is something to be ashamed of.   As Pogo said "we have found the enemy and he is us".