TMCTLT wrote:....we're HOSED
Looks to me like we're pretty well hosed and heading further down not only in this area, but others.
We do not have a high enough birth rate to sustain the population. As population declines, so do economies, business activity, profits - at the same time as providing a smaller base of population to tax.
from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/15/us-birth-rate_n_1779960.html
"The U.S. birth rate now is 1.9 births per woman over her lifetime, when 2 births per woman is necessary to sustain the population on its own. Because of immigration, the population is still growing"
The correlation between decline in birth rate and declining is pretty clear and the trend has been well known for some time.
IMO, this is one of the major reasons immigration laws have not been enforced in the US. Not to mention adding people paying into Social Security as we transition into more drawing from, than paying into.
ZRX1200 wrote:immigration will draw us further down the hole towards a turd world country.
yep.
I hate to see it, but I'm thinking that's where we are headed.