NVDave, I was with you until you talked about holding down population growth and the post WW II era. Perhaps you were talking about the population growth prior to the end of the war.
At any rate, I do strongly support a cessation of all immigration for the next 20 to 30 years.
We’ve got some mending to do, or we don’t continue on as a unified nation.
Compared to how many people (refugees from WWII-torn areas) wanted to get in, the immigration policies pre-1965 did hold down our population growth compared to what it would have been if we had pre-1934 or post-1965 policies in place.
Our labor markets will be compromised for decades to come. Most of out economic growth post-1984 or so has come as a result of the expansion of debt and leverage levels, not from organic economic production and economic multipliers. The dot-com boom was the one true, organic upside we’ve had since 1984, and that wasn’t enough to turn the tide of events.
If people want to see where we’re going, look to Europe for consequences of our fiscal and immigration policies, and Japan for the fruits of our banking policies.