Beldin:
We are very pleased that our Ma. population is stabilizing. It allows us to do long range planning and budgeting for a fixed target, reduces environmental stress, traffic, overcrowding, and half-ass development.
Population growth as has occured in Texas does provide an economic jolt for a period of time. Then the costs of coping with an exploding population take hold. Maybe we can send you a few hundred thousand more illegal immigrants, if you like, and you can become a Mexican province or maybe a desert.
I never suggested things in Ma. are wonderful, or that things in Texas are terrible.
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