[zeestephen]

Re: “Without a growing population you're pretty much limited to the rate of productivity growth, which hasn't been that high.”

I agree.

But the greater catastrophe is to import millions of marginally productive foreign laborers every year for the sole purpose of increasing domestic demand and paying into the Social Security Ponzi scheme.

Even the Asian Indians - who are America's best educated and highest paid ethnic group - are mostly just less expensive replacements for “average” American-born engineers (with some obvious and stellar exceptions, of course).

And, the fact that Asian Indian Americans voted 80% to reelect Obama in 2012, and 77% to elect Hillary in 2016, should be completely unacceptable to American Conservatives.

Bottom Line...

America is ungovernable and almost insolvent.

Massive legal and illegal immigration simply adds gasoline to the fire.

[NobleFree]

the greater catastrophe is to import millions of marginally productive foreign laborers every year for the sole purpose of increasing domestic demand and paying into the Social Security Ponzi scheme.

Even the Asian Indians - who are America's best educated and highest paid ethnic group - are mostly just less expensive replacements for “average” American-born engineers (with some obvious and stellar exceptions, of course).

And, the fact that Asian Indian Americans voted 80% to reelect Obama in 2012, and 77% to elect Hillary in 2016, should be completely unacceptable to American Conservatives.

Amen!