Enterprising young Americans should prepare to leave.

Hello Roy, this is my first debate here and I am excited. If I'm doing it wrong, please notify me and I will humbly correct myself. I accept your definitions. Thank you for a well thought out case. My points are as follows; 1.Resolution includes an underlying threat of present and future national instability The act of all young, enterprising Americans (I shall just denote them as YEA's) preparing to emigrate from the country poses a threat of present and future national instability. Preparing all YEA's for emigration leaves the probability that a number of YEA's would, in fact, emigrate. Not for reasons of national disaster, or to better the country, but for their own personal reasons. Assuming a percentile of YEA's continued to leave as they where prepared, the displacement would become a trend. While not a bad thing for the individual, the result would be a loss of many of America's bright, young minds to other countries. This would leave America in a position to be left behind in technological, economical, and demographic aspects. In the case of a national emergency, or time of national distress (economic, conflict) this trend would doubtlessly be accelerated. It can be seen that if the situation is desperate enough, individuals will emigrate, despite not having been "prepared". One extreme example is Albania. "More than a quarter of the Albanian population have left the country since 1990, causing a negative population growth and a dent in the age structure of the population. Since emigration affected mainly the reproductive ages, it also had an effect on fertility: the total fertility rate fell below replacement level (to 1.65 children per women in 2005)" [1] There are also many less extreme examples. "Anecdotal reports suggest that it is now difficult to find qualified workers in Poland and some other Eastern European countries. Such a massive and relatively sudden exodus affects the labor market and economic conditions of those who remained at home, and it is entirely plausible that the negative consequences include health." [ibid] 2.Conceptually undermines confidence in America All YEA's working methodically to be ready to emigrate, even temporarily, would create a social uneasiness and expresses a lack of confidence in the the U.S.A. YEA's, or the generation who is stepping up to "carry the torch", would seem to lack confidence in their country. If this was not the case, escape would not be necessary. To prepare for an action undoubtedly implies that the individuals will carry out their preparations when the time arises (whatever that is deemed to be). If I was over thirty-five, and not prepared to leave the country, I would feel the threat of abandonment and fear. All the YEA's, the ones who are actually promising, are ready to fly the coop, while I'm left with all the old, helpless people and non-YEA's. It's not even the question of if it would happen, it's how people would undoubtedly interpret the situation. We would be better off be giving the YEA's tools to face problems, not run from them. 3.Risk too great Now we have a trickle of YEA's leaving the country, and and undoubtedly increased chance of a larger emigration trend as a result of disaster/war. Yay. So what is the result? Well, if the "trickle" continues, there's no real evidence that the economy would take a huge hit, not immediately at least. But a relocation of our YEA's on any scale would be not-so-good for the country in technological areas, or areas which require very technical skills. On a large scale, we'll just have to trust the brain surgery to the ditch diggers. Scary. To my opponent's arguments! 1.There is a substantial threat of creeping mediocrity We live in a democracy, there will be no development of a "nanny state" unless the people will it. If YEA's are opposed to it, they would stand up and do something about it. They are "enterprising" after all. As I have shown in my points, bailing is not the answer. 2.There is some threat of disaster My opponent embraces "bailing out". I have clearly shown how "bailing" would be harmful to the nation in o-so-many ways. 3.There is historical precedent The historical example that my opponent gives does not pertain to the topic. Yes, the emigration took place, and for good reason. But there is one problem. The colonies where technically part of the mother country and under her rule till after the revolutionary war, thus those who moved to the colonies earlier on didn't really emigrate. 4. The downside is minimal Please refer to all my points, thank you. Bibliography 1.http://ije.oxfordjournals.org... Thus the negative stands.