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massadvj:

--- Quote from: speekinout on December 13, 2413, 11:42:38 pm ---I know you didn't ask me, but -  :laugh:

The problem with a stable population is that more people are growing older these days. They're leaving the productive workforce, and also leaving the market for goods. That makes a stable GDP and a stable population in conflict with each other.
Of course, if the country is paying pensions and medical care for the elderly, the problem is even worse - instead of contributing to the country, they are a drain.
I suppose that if you could keep the elderly at a given % of the population, it would be fine, but you could only do that with rather abhorrent practices - death panels and control of either reproduction or immigration or both.

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Exactly right. Without immigration the median age in the USA would be in  the 40's.  As it is, the current median age is in the mid-30's, higher than it has been at any point in history.

DCPatriot:

--- Quote from: massadvj on May 25, 2014, 01:29:42 am ---Exactly right. Without immigration the median age in the USA would be in  the 40's.  As it is, the current median age is in the mid-30's, higher than it has been at any point in history.

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Why would we just accept numbers supplied by the government?

Why would we accept anything the government says?   :whistle:

massadvj:

--- Quote from: DCPatriot on May 25, 2014, 01:44:24 am ---Why would we just accept numbers supplied by the government?

Why would we accept anything the government says?   :whistle:

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This data isn't just collected by government.  Numerous companies, such as Nielsen and many other marketing research firms, track population trends in the USA. 

There is a lot of very interesting information out there.  For example, did you know that among millennials, whites are not a majority ethnic subculture?  They comprise less than half the population of people under 30.  If you combine African Americans, Hispanics and Asians you get a majority of the millennial market, slightly outnumbering Anglos.

The forces at play that are diminishing and ultimately bringing down the dominant WASP influence on the USA are irrepressible.  This country is going to be very different in a couple of generations.

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