[FITZ]

However, Bush knows that a contracting population base equals economic stagnation and recession. He doesn't want that.

I guess he doesn't because he's sending as many jobs to the one-child Chinese who now have the worlds' fastest growing economy. The Chinese are actually doing quite a lot better than the Mexicans who are breeding faster than anyone. If just having a fast growing population was the factor, Mexico shouldn't be the disaster it is. It's fastest growing cities are skyrocketing in crime, they're being murdered almost faster than they can reproduce. I don't know but I would imagine Chinese cities have far less crime and better conditions.

[Antoninus]

I guess he doesn't because he's sending as many jobs to the one-child Chinese who now have the worlds' fastest growing economy. The Chinese are actually doing quite a lot better than the Mexicans who are breeding faster than anyone.

Both of these generalities are not supported by the facts. "One-child" China is partly myth. Though no one will deny that they are an abortion-loving regime, their population continues to grow. They were still above replacement and I would reckon that even if they said they were at replacement last time I checked and it would only be to appease the population control nazis at the UN.

Mexico, on the other hand, has seen a rapid decline in its birth rate. Though they're still above replacement, they are not where they were 20 or even 10 years ago. The fact that cities are overcrowded means that the campesinos are flooding in looking for work--thus, there are fewer farm families and farm families tend to have tons of kids, as compared to city-dwellers.

Think about it.