Immigration Not A Fix For An Aging Population

Center For Immigration Studies ^ | 06 December 2012

[zeestephen]

Based on Census Bureau estimates, USA population will increase from 309 million in 2010 to 436 million in 2050, mostly from immigration - However, the working-age (18-65) share of the population will grow only slightly faster.

[zeestephen]

"Immigration makes for a much larger overall population, while having only a minimal effect on slowing the aging of American society."

If the Census Bureau estimate is correct, our population will grow 127 million by 2050.

127 million is more than the combined population of France and the U.K.

The immigrant (legal and illegal) share of the population will reach nearly one in five residents by 2050.

"Assuming the Census Bureau’s immigration level, 58 percent of the population will be of working-age in 2050, compared to 57 percent if there is NO immigration."

Advocates for "Open Borders" take no account of how a massive increase in population will impact our infrastructure, our economy, or our political stability.

"Open Borders" advocates claim that no country can have a growing economy if the population is steady or declining.

But what is the outer limit for USA population?

1 billion? 5 billion?

Eventually, immigration must stop.

Then we will have exactly the SAME problem we had BEFORE we imported billions of new citizens.

[US Navy Vet]

You know WHAT is a “fix” for an “Aging” population Marital SEX and ABOLISHING ABORTION!

[Ohioan]

You make valid points, but they are not the strongest reasons for severely curbing massive immigration.

See Immigration & The American Future.

Or consider what is being done to America by those embracing the cult of "Diversity."

William Flax

[Steely Tom]

Immigration Not A Fix For An Aging Population

Maybe not, but it's a fix for not enough government-dependent Democrat voters.

That's why we're getting it.

[veracious]

It upheld the Roman Empire in an economic bubble...
until it burst.
Is it bursting here, Duh?

[zeestephen]

Ohioan,

Thanks for your links.

I try hard to keep my posts narrowly focused on one issue so readers can take away one idea.

Believe me, I know EVERYTHING that’s happening because of massive immigration, and I’ve probably posted on all of them at least once.

The most frightening fact of all...

New Hispanic citizens vote 80% for the Democrat Party!

[skeeter]

Then we will have exactly the SAME problem we had BEFORE we imported billions of new citizens.

We will, however, have fewer citizens who are able to discern that there is a problem.

Which is the goal, IMO.

[qam1]

All those single sluts ladies who voted for Obama because they were thinking with their lady parts better enjoy those free condoms while they can, because 20-40 years from now, when the country is in ruins the Mexicans Immirgrants aren't going to be too happy to pay for the Social Security for all these single childless White women.

[Ohioan]

Keep posting. We will lose everything if we give up!

[zeestephen]

Part 2.....

I forgot my main point.

I subscribe to daily emails from the allegedly Conservative magazines “Commentary” and “The Weekly Standard.”

Both of them have writers that claim America must have high levels of immigration or we will have no economic growth.

Those guys are really pounding that idea now that so many Republicans are claiming that the GOP must pacify Hispanic voters and endorse Amnesty.

Forget that noise, man!

[Ohioan]

I address the Hispanic aspect, briefly, in my current feature, at my Conservative Web Site: Whither American Conservatism?, which is also the subject of a thread, here, started earlier today.

Feel free to use anything of mine, so long as you do not quote me out of context. (Context is vital to making one's points.)

William Flax

[SharpRightTurn]

“USA population will increase from 309 million in 2010 to 436 million in 2050, mostly from immigration”

And yet the Republican/Dhimmicrat Industrial Complex can’t get enough immigration, legal or illegal, to suit it.

The disconnect between the people and their overlords is staggering.

[Tax-chick]

Duh. Immigration isn’t a fix for any problem in our country, although it’s a fix for the “living in a pesthole” problem many people in the world have.

[zeestephen]

Mr. Flax,

Your website is impressive.

Your December essay touches on four issues close to my heart...natural inequality, creating wealth, immigration, and constitutional literalism.

If our candidates would make the effort to internalize the basic principles of Conservative thought - as you have - they could avoid a lot of embarrassment and win a lot more elections.

I’m going to try to visit your website once a day until I work through your archive.

[Ohioan]

Thank you for the kind words. My website exists to serve Conservatives, particularly embattled youth, trying to fight back against the Leftist domination of Academia, with arguments for which the Left has no adequate answer--no adequate answer because the arguments are based on what is demonstrably true.

I entered the figurative "lists," as it were, before I left High School, many decades ago; and deliberately attended a very "Liberal" College, precisely to develop the most effective ways to counter what was already in progress. Nothing makes me happier than to help others, on our side, with the tools to better engage.

William Flax

[Ohioan]

The disconnect, to which you refer, has been promoted in the business world by the same Academic world that has corrupted the mass media. In trying to combat it over the decades, I have repeatedly encountered the role of those trying to undermine the very concept of National Sovereignty in the Academic World, not for any business purpose, but to promote a variety of what might be called, "one-worldism," for a variety of half-baked ideological purposes.

Once the Academic Left began to embrace Fabian tactics, they became much more effective in gaming various segments of the population. The Corporate Management type, always overly focused on immediate business concerns, including the pursuit of performance bonuses and the like, are little better able to resist being narrowly focused to chase short-term benefits, than are the politicians in Washington.

In other words, while it seems to make sense to many on our side to look for some sort of diabolic globalist plot, benefiting business; if one recognizes the destruction of healthy societies all over the West, and the long term effect on many of those same business interests--which ultimately reflect actual people, not inanimate objects--it becomes obvious that stupidity, not greed, is the dominant factor.

Always try to understand the specific focus of anyone, at anytime, to better understand the how & whys of conduct.

William Flax