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Legal immigration is a huge problem. We are taking in vastly more people than the nation can culturally assimilate, and statistically these legal immigrants are

Legal immigration is a huge problem. We are taking in vastly more people than the nation can culturally assimilate, and statistically these legal immigrants are net economic tax drains. Even if the legal immigration screening were fixed and we stopped bringing in so many economic losers, the cold hard fact is this country is full. MOST of the US is facing fresh water crises in the next couple decades. We will become net importers of food within the next 20 years as prime farmland is consumed. We already have become net importers in most categories. The USA is overpopulated. Net immigration should be ZERO. Did you know the US would not be an oil importer if immigration had been stopped in 1970? Instead of being in a position to peacefully mind our own business we're spending trillions on wars for oil.

microarchitect 15y ago
Sounds like BS to me. Do you have any citations backing this up?
rayiner 15y ago
You realize the US is facing an enormous labor shortage in the coming decades as the baby boomers retire?
- rubashov 15y ago
  That's not really true. Social Security is insolvent, but so what; the sooner that gets shut down the better. There's no evidence that boomer retirement is creating a labor shortage. The boomers are retiring now and wages are not increasing. Japan's boomers are 10 years ahead of ours and their retirements have not created problematic labor shortages. Even if there were labor shortages, impending water shortages rather plainly remove the option of continued population growth. The native population of this country decided the land was full in the 1970s. Native born birth rates leveled to replacement. The current immigration paradigm is a political agenda at odds with democracy. Poll after poll shows pretty much everybody agrees we don't need more people. What we have here is a political alliance between certain business interests and certain ethnic interest groups to benefit at the expense of the majority.

microarchitect 15y ago

Sounds like BS to me. Do you have any citations backing this up?

rayiner 15y ago

You realize the US is facing an enormous labor shortage in the coming decades as the baby boomers retire?

rubashov 15y ago
That's not really true. Social Security is insolvent, but so what; the sooner that gets shut down the better. There's no evidence that boomer retirement is creating a labor shortage. The boomers are retiring now and wages are not increasing. Japan's boomers are 10 years ahead of ours and their retirements have not created problematic labor shortages. Even if there were labor shortages, impending water shortages rather plainly remove the option of continued population growth. The native population of this country decided the land was full in the 1970s. Native born birth rates leveled to replacement. The current immigration paradigm is a political agenda at odds with democracy. Poll after poll shows pretty much everybody agrees we don't need more people. What we have here is a political alliance between certain business interests and certain ethnic interest groups to benefit at the expense of the majority.