Why do we need more people in this country, anyway?

The Washington Post ^ | June 21, 2018 | Michael Anton

[Architect of Avalon]

Babies murdered between conception and birth are not pro-abortion.

In fact, they are pro-life.

They don’t want to be killed, and innately value their lives.

[Bommer]

Spoken like someone that never listens to him.

[FLT-bird]

The Washington Post is not wrong about Establishment Republicans importing cheap labor to keep wages down. Of course the Democrats do it for exactly the same reason and because they think they can cultivate another grievance group to harvest votes from in the future.

I’ve said this before. I do projects for big banks. The building I work in is loaded and I mean literally about 25% by my reckoning with H1B holders from India. Yes that’s right. Literally about a quarter of the people the bank employs for its back office functions are Indian - right here in the US. I have nothing against Indians at all....but c’mon. Those should be Americans in those jobs. The bank can pay those Indians less than it would pay an American thus it hires so many. That’s great for the bank. That’s awful for a lot of younger Americans who should be getting good white collar experience to set them up for good careers. Instead, they’re pushed down a notch in terms of the quality of employment they can get and that’s to say nothing of 10-15 years from now when they don’t have the qualifications for good middle management jobs because they didn’t get the lower level jobs now.

That’s terrible for America now because their wages are suppressed now. Its also terrible for America in the future because they’re not building the experience and skills needed for the future. I understand why companies want this. The government however should severely restrict it as being not in the best interests of most Americans or of the country long term.

[kabar]

Japan’s economy remains on the edge of a disaster. As Mauldin puts it, a bug in search of a windshield. If the population was growing they could work their way out of the problem.

Almost all of the developed world have fertility rates below replacement levels. Japan has decided not to import masses of foreign workers, but rather, to use automation and technology to cope with a declining work force. They would rather maintain their culture than risk the social consequences of importing large numbers of foreign workers. That said, there has been a modest increase in immigration.

Japan has the world's third largest economy. It has the second oldest population with the median age being 47.3. Germany is third with 47.1. The US has a median age of 38.1, the 60th overall oldest. Canada's population is even older at 42.2. Japan has the second highest life expectancy at birth. The US is 43rd.

If the population was growing they could work their way out of the problem.

Growing populations may increase GDP, but the individual slice of the pie may decline. The impact of technology and automation are making workers more productive and decreasing the need for workers. Despite the low US unemployment rate, the US labor participation rate has been declining for decades. We have over 90 million people age 16 to 65 out of the workforce. Below is the labor participation rates over the past 40 years.

[matthew fuller]

Great article- Great concept. Hits the nail on the head. Saw the author on Tucker Carlson earlier. Thanks for posting.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Government has the obligation to protect the American worker. That’s one of the few reasons it exists. I feel we’re living in an anarchy, thanks to past lawless chiefs elected to enforce the law.

[central_va]

I have listened to him off and on since 1992.

[central_va]

The average American is being drowned in a sea of globalism. Washed away.

[central_va]

Growing populations may increase GDP, but the individual slice of the pie may decline.

May?

[central_va]

Abortion HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. WE HAVE 320 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE USA. THAT’S THE ISSUE.
If being a christian means watching this once great country be overrun by third worlders as some form of pay back punishment then to hell with it all. The Bible is not a political suicide pact.

[central_va]

The only way to defeat globalism is with patriotism.

[kabar]

Yes, may. You can have real growth in GDP that also increases personal wealth with population growth. We have had such periods.

[central_va]

Are in any way suggesting that that is possible now? LOL!

[kabar]

No. Real wage growth has been essentially stagnant or in decline since 1969.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””That’s awful for a lot of younger Americans who should be getting good white collar experience to set them up for good careers. Instead, they’re pushed down a notch in terms of the quality of employment they can get and that’s to say nothing of 10-15 years from now when they don’t have the qualifications for good middle management jobs because they didn’t get the lower level jobs now.

That’s terrible for America now because their wages are suppressed now. Its also terrible for America in the future because they’re not building the experience and skills needed for the future. I understand why companies want this. The government however should severely restrict it as being not in the best interests of most Americans or of the country long term.”””

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I fully with all you wrote and especially this segment. How do we convince the 20 year olds that they need to vote for Trump instead of hate Trump as they are told to do in college?

[Wuli]

Yes, the same business community that runs after our Conservative votes for reducing regulation and taxes, which we agree with, turns around and bites us in the ass seeking amnesty and more low wage immigrants. Then they want our personal taxes to pay for the entitlements needed fot the safety net for the increasing level of citizens & legal residents with low education and skills being passed over in workk given to the cheaper charging low wage immigrants, legal and illegal.

[Oatka]