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stu2002
05-13-2010, 04:23 AM
Kotkin, who leans mildly in a libertarian direction, can’t really explain why his doubly denser America is preferable. He simply assumes that his readers won’t be so uncool as to notice that illegal immigration tends to create a vast hereditary proletariat. That’s not the worst fate imaginable for America, but if the more productive will be required to subsidize the education, the policing, and now the healthcare of the less productive (which, one way or another, we shall), why would we want to continue to import millions of unskilled and highly fertile foreigners? In California in 2005, foreign-born Latinas were giving birth at the rate of 3.7 babies per lifetime (almost the same total fertility as Haiti) versus 2.2 for American-born Latinas and 1.4 for American-born Asians. Ouch.

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2010/jun/01/00044/

GreedyHenry
05-13-2010, 04:47 AM
I've never heard a good explanation as to why a big increase in population is a good thing. The only benefits people bring up is things like paying into social security and we need younger workers to take of the retirees, etc which is just admitting the whole things a big pyramid scheme.

GreedyHenry
05-13-2010, 04:51 AM
good video on population growth

YouTube - Immigration Gumballs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJeqxuOfQ)