To: AnotherUnixGeek
Legal immigrants are among the highest contributors to American innovation and entrepreneurship, and without the inflow of talented, educated people from abroad the US would be facing the same dwindling population and shrinking economy that Western Europe and Japan are struggling to deal with. Ever wonder why these populations are shrinking? Any nation that depends upon immigration for survival is in trouble!
6 posted on
08/18/2010 12:42:14 AM PDT by
Cowboy Bob
(Liberalism and Patriotism cannot coexist.)
To: Cowboy Bob
Ever wonder why these populations are shrinking?
You believe legal immigration keeps Americans from having kids? I don't. Japan and Western European nations which have not permitted lots of immigration are also experiencing falling birth-rates - the reason most likely being that wealthier people choose to have fewer children. The phenomenon is even observable in those parts of India which are beginning to move out of poverty now - the birth-rate in parts of south India (where the tech boom has lifted millions into the middle class) has fallen below the replacement rate.
To: Cowboy Bob
Any nation that depends upon immigration for survival is in trouble!AMEN!
11 posted on
08/18/2010 1:41:59 PM PDT by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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