[Age of Reason]

We would need some or else the country's population would drop.

Let it drop.

[Carry_Okie]

Japan, Italy, Russia.

No thanks. Stability, or even a growth rate of 1% per decade suits me fine for at least the next thirty years when we baby boomers are finally gone. Dropping numbers would cause a real estate implosion that would take every bank in the country with it.