[April Lexington]

Socialism suffocates population. World Wars don’t help either...

[central_va]

But Germany's problems still pale in comparison to many other European states, where declining birthrates and restrictive policies on immigration have halted population growth

We could ship them a couple of million Mexicans if they want. We could start a Mexican Migrant Futures exchange..

[Riodacat]

Germany's key country for immigration, Turkey, is now not such a boon, with net 10,000 Turks returning rather than coming to Germany.

Yah, I'm betting that has a lot of Germans upset..

[cephalopod1]

Crisis after crisis?
Compared with what they’ve been through, especially about 100 years ago, this is nothing.
Europe has seen worse times than this. Much worse.

[Bringbackthedraft]

“The country has already tried policies to encourage family growth that have thus far failed,” ................................. Well, there is always the Lebensborn Project option.

[updatedscreenname]

Same problem in the US.
Whey did the housing market collapse?
Roe v. Wade,1973 allowed killing off would be first time home buyers. Federal government tried everything to prop up home sales but no first time buyers translates to collapse.

Housing is the least of the problems. The entitlement programs are already collapsing. Too few paying in, too many
collecting benefits.

It will get ugly when rationing is implemented.

[buffyt]

We have been to Germany on vacation many times, in 1998 when we were there, we stayed at a B&B. It was actually a private home. In Zell. The owner said since reunification he had to pay such high taxes that he had two full time jobs, plus opening his home as a B&B, just to pay all the reunification taxes. He had a wife and 2 or 3 youngs kids, and was strapped for money, even though he had a good paying professional job, plus the second job.

I met a gal from Germany in 1979 and she told me how high their taxes were even then. Seems like she said 60% back then.

[kabar]

The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 34 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. And by 2050, one in 5 residents of the U.S. will be foreign-born and one in three Hispanic.

Currently, 1.6 million legal and illegal immigrants settle in the country each year; 350,000 immigrants leave each year, resulting in net immigration of 1.25 million. Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased from 203 million to 309 million, i.e., over 100 million. In the next 40 years, the population will increase by 130 million. Three-quarters of the increase in our population since 1970 and the projected increase will be the result of immigration. The U.S., the world’s third most populous nation, has the highest annual rate of population growth of any developed country in the world, i.e., 0.975% (2009 estimate), principally due to immigration.

Mass immigration is killing the US. The Europeans may be losing population but our situation may even be worse. We are importing poverty.

[Plutarch]

Say, didn’t Mark Steyn tell us something about this, only years earlier?

[Buckeye McFrog]

a carefully crafted propaganda piece to promote the Open Borders agenda here.

That being said, probably not long until Europe follows Vlad Putin’s example and starts bizarre public campaigns to convince young people to “get busy, get horizontal and PROCREATE!”

[alexander_busek]

And Germany's key country for immigration, Turkey, is now not such a boon, with net 10,000 Turks returning rather than coming to Germany.

I'm betting that those 10,000 returnees (per month? per year?) are, by and large, of retirement age. The second- and third-generation Turks are culturally and linguistically assimilated - at least to the extent that they would no longer fit into Turkish society (a fact that they don't always, themselves, realize). A return to Turkey is especially difficult if they were to attempt to settle in a non-metropolitan area (most Turkish immigrants hail from rural Anatolia).

The article is mostly true. Ethnic Germans are having too few children. I've lived most of my life here, and I still don't fathom the true nature of their aversion to having progeny. It's creepy.

Regards,

[WorldviewDad]

I would advice viewing the DVDs “Demographic Winter” and “Demographic Bomb”. They go through the on going issues that help cause declining birth rates and the effects of declining birth rates. The first one “Demographic Winter” actually predicted the U.S. economic collapse of a couple years ago based upon birth rate trends. It also points out that immigration does not solve the problem long term since the people immigrating tend to become like their new host country and end up having fewer children...and there are less people in the original country that they left to have more children. They are very interesting to watch and point out that their appears to be only certain groups of people that have a birth rate that would allow for growth.