Maybe the feds will do what they did for Reagan. Jack up interest rates.
That first part about the border, I think Democrats, Corporate Republicans and Corporations all want more immigrants coming in. Have you seen all the fast food places who say they can't find workers?
The Census Bureau reported that
U.S. population growth slowed in the past decade to its lowest rate since the 1930s.
Just 3.6 million babies were born in the United States in 2020, falling 4% from the year before. A pandemic baby bust might have been expected, but 2020 was actually the sixth consecutive year of decline. Now, the number of babies a woman in America is projected to have during her lifetime is 1.64,
the lowest rate ever recorded.
I think we are overpopulated and I like to see the numbers going down. So I'm not defending Biden or agreeing that yes we need more immigrants. I don't want them. But I bet secretly they do.
Who doesn't want more immigrants? Trump supporters. Whites who don't want to see the country getting any browner. Or Blue collar whites who have to compete with them for jobs.
So how to even begin tackling it? Well, policies that explicitly encourage Americans to form families, like an expanded child tax credit or cash benefits, are a good start.
Although the great engine of American capitalism is now humming on all cylinders, Americans remain strangely reluctant to have children. That birthrates plummeted during the Great Recession, which …
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Despite generous tax cuts and rising middle-class incomes, however, our birth rate remains mired at the lowest level ever recorded in American history.
Some will hear this and shrug. Our birth rate is still higher than Germany’s, they will say, adding that like Germany we can simply import the workers that we need.
Angela Merkel opened Germany’s borders to caravans from the south in 2015-16, partly to show compassion and partly to solve her country’s birth dearth. But what she thought would be a ready-made cadre of workers instead turned into a massive societal and economic debacle. Because of language, cultural and educational barriers, only a minority of recent immigrants to Germany are gainfully employed.
With factories now moving back to the US, and unemployment rates at historic lows, the pressure to import workers into America will only grow.
But it would be far better for the next generation of workers to be “Made in America” than imported from abroad. Most native-born students come to school already equipped — by their own parents —with the language skills and values they need to learn and succeed in America. Many immigrant children don’t and, according to the Federation for American Education Reform (FAIR), they require years of expensive special instruction costing taxpayers nearly $60 billion a year.
Beyond that, Americans should be at the head of the line for the same reason that companies prefer to promote from within — because they understand the company’s culture, speak its language and are more easily accepted by the other employees.
To bolster the birthrate, millennials have to be encouraged to marry and have children.
Right now, because of huge levels of student debt, a preference for cohabitation over marriage and a general unwillingness on the part of young men to take on the responsibilities of marriage and family, they are proving to be a largely barren lot.
Not that I entirely blame them. Millennials have been seduced into
taking out a trillion-and-a-half dollars in student loans, which is taking them years, if not decades, to pay back. Who wants to marry someone who is heavily in debt, much less commit to the costly, long-term project of raising children? In this sense, student loans are probably the most effective contraceptives ever invented.