Population control?

I have forgotten what year it is… 2200 something, I’m not sure. My child is all I that’s on my mind.

My husband and I were set together by the government. We were the beginning of a new race of humans; we were the perfect ones.

Right around the year 2163 there was a severe population boost. It didn’t stop at the end of that year, or the next! This boost lasted for several years. The government was struggling to deal with the loss of jobs and the poverty now striking the country. There was no middle class anymore; you were either working for the government or in the low class society. It became common to walk down the street and see six or seven people sleeping in piles of garbage or the ones that were better off sleeping in boxes.

People with enough money started to leave the country looking for jobs, or even just a better place to live than the now crashing U.S.A. We were going down, and no one ever saw it coming!

The government instituted a new plan. I don’t remember what they called it, but because of it I was born. I was the start of a new plan started by President Collins. Controlling the population was the only way to pull ourselves out of the slump that we were now in, they said. Somehow congress agreed, maybe because they would be the ones to benefit from the plan. Even though they agreed, I believe that not a person ever expected it to have to come to what it is today.

Seeing a weakness in the U.S.A., the "enemy" countries decided it was time to get revenge for the thousands of people we have killed over the years. Russia especially went to work, sending in spies and undercover agents, to tap into knowledge that we had sealed off from them. With the new knowledge they began a series of strategic attacks against our country.

The government realized our weakness and used it to our advantage. Men and women from different divisions of the Army went around recruiting people off the street, telling them of the glory and honor they would receive when they returned. So, of course, seeing this as an opportunity to get off the ground and do something they accepted the chance and went over seas. A couple of weeks in training were all they had, nothing more. Out of the billions sent over, very few ever made it home. They only honor that these few got upon their return, was to die on home ground, and to know that they won.

Now with a lot of the "riff-raff" gone from the streets they could begin to start anew. The new plan went into action a few months later.

They started with the closest people to the government, they people that held positions within it. They asked for the help of the Congress first. My father was forced to divorce his first wife for this plan. My mother and father were happy enough, I guess. That’s not what the government cared about.

A while after this happened they found that the population was still on the rise, not as fast as before but going up. They needed a way to stop the rise of the number of people. They had yet another plan.

They looked at China in this case. They saw how they had stopped their unbelievable population and took it to a new level, the developing of a new race. My husband and me.