[SmokingJoe]

The government craves an increase in population to feed the Social Security and similar beasts.

That statement simply doesn’t make any sense.

[Cboldt]

-- That statement simply doesn't make any sense. --

Trey this. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, and it needs new marks in order to extend the life of the scheme. Demographics in this country bode ill for age-based entitlement programs. Immigration reform is all about increasing the population base in order to extend the Ponzi schemes.