According to the US Census Bureau, sometime tomorrow the US population will surpass the 300 million mark. In the grand scheme of things the figure is absolutely meaningless. Our government will remain bloated, our citizens and businesses will continued to endure the burdens of over taxation, more and more American parents will continue to send their children to mediocre public schools. Leftists will strive to increase the size and scope of government while conservatives will maneuver to use government to impose their moral and religious morays on society at large. Islamic radicals will have 300 million targets in their sights and slothful and indolent will remain steadfast in their determination to milk the government dry of any and all social services…

The Census figures are an estimate. For all we know the US population could have surpassed 300 million last December or last month or even 2 years ago. And does it really mater if the US population is 300 million or 295 million?

For the most part it makes no difference in the lives of most Americans unless you’re a demographer. To highlight this fact, a local news radio station in Atlanta randomly selected people of downtown streets to gauge their knowledge of the current population and the results were telling to say the least (but in no way surprising). Some respondents thought the US population was 1 billion another said 28 billion, one thought the US had only 10 million people. So while our population may be growing at a steady pace, the collective intellectual capacity of this great nation is showing no comparable signs of steady growth.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/10/13/300.million.over/