[Kieri]

I don't know if others have posted CBN articles here before, but I thought this one was very interesting. I've also read other sources that confirm things Mr. Hurd deals with in this piece, especially on the cost of maintaining huge welfare states.

[liberallarry]

If you think cramming 550 million people into the United States is going to convey advantages you're even dumber than the author of the article.

As the numbers go up the price of land will skyrocket, so will rents, and so will taxes - thus reducing possibilities for advancement for the vast majority of people.

The hope is that technological advance will somehow mitigate the looming nightmare. Well...maybe. I'm glad I won't be around to find out.

[prion]

I'm not comfortable pegging the strength of a nation to its birthrates. In fact, America is the best example of a nation that succeeds not by the number of its people, but their productivity.

[SandRat]

Germany always wants to be the Master of France and France insists on being the Dominatrix of Germany. Go figure!

Other than that it's a peyote induced dream.

[liberallarry]

The U.S. number is just under 2.1, but is augmented greatly by high immigration rates.

But immigration is also the problem. Backed by public opinion, more and more European governments are trying to limit immigration levels, not increase them. Far-right groups who want to literally ship Africans and Asians back to their home countries are growing in almost every European nation.

Perhaps you didn't notice this. The author thinks that massive third-world immigration is a terrible problem for Europe but a plus for us. I think the author is an idiot.

[swampfox98]

but of a multilateral collection of nations that together will be an economic superpower, and if it chooses, will be able to stand up to the United States.

Most politicians in Washington, including our president, want one nation from Canada to South America. They think we can stand up to the EU if we do this. This article re enforces my view of both the EU and America's open borders policies. That view is: The politicians all over the world are in cahoots in engineering a third world hell for all of us to live in.

[MissAmericanPie]

"And, as present birthrates and immigration levels play out, by 2050, the U.S. population could stand as high as 550 million"

Of course it will no longer resemble the United States but the Balkins, with ethnic cleansing and the native population at war with it's own government.

The US will be devastated to learn that the new EU leader will have the EU soaring economically with the US, having no manufacturing or industrial base, tagging along begging for scraps to feed it's angry and rioting underclass.

[Cicero]

The population decrease is driven partly by economics, true. Modern advanced economies are structured so that many wives have to work in order to support their families. And college education is prohibitively expensive for more than one or two children.

BUT. The main reason for the decrease is cultural nihilism and defeatism. As they lose their faith, people see no purpose in life. Why work for the future and bring children into the world?

My wife and I have a very large family. The financial burden has been crushing, and we're not yet through the tunnel. But it has been worth it. I'd rather have lots of wonderful children and money problems than no children and a lot of expensive toys. The plain fact of the matter is that most modern Europeans think differently. They'd rather have the toys and the comfortable lifestyle.

As for immigration, the US has one enormous advantage over Europe. Our immigrants are Catholic hispanics, theirs are Muslim Arabs, Muslim Pakistanis, and Muslim Africans. Our immigrants are a problem, but NOTHING like theirs are going to be.

[XEHRpa]

> European Dominance (EU): Fact or Fiction?

Only in the minds of intelLEFTuals.

[Agnes Heep]

Europe has already been through this, about 1500 years ago. Evidently you've got to hit rock-bottom before you can start digging out again.

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

Dr. Cecile Philippe is president of the free market think-tank Institut Molinari. She says, for her and other French women, it is a matter of economics. Europeans can't afford to pay for large families and a bloated welfare state.

Sadly, that's exactly what is happening and going to happen in America. We'll be following in the footsteps of our insane liberal parents just across the Atlantic. Like father, like son. Unless, of course, we flood this country with so many people that it doesn't even resemble America.

Either way, America is probably dead from a cultural standpoint.

[smpc]

And, as present birthrates and immigration levels play out, by 2050, the U.S. population could stand as high as 550 million, with the 25-nation EU at 360, and plummeting.

Overpopulation is the ultimate decider of who is part of the first world and who is relegated to the third.Small,'Ageing' nations have,throughout history,been those who contain financially independent well-off citizens.Better to be Monaco or Switzerland than India or Iran.A drop in population will be the slap of reality France and Germany need to become self-reliant.