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Adding Immigrants to Bolster an Aging America is a Ponzi Scheme

Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

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Good and possibly great news: the U.S. birthrate continues to trend lower, now at the lowest on record since 1920, the year when the federal government first gathered and stored reliable statistics.

For the most recent year, the fertility rate dropped to 62 births per 1,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its National Center for Health Statistics. This is less than half of the peak of the Baby Boom in 1957, when there were 122.7 births per 1,000.

Looking at a micro picture, the birthrate among foreign-born women also continues to trend lower, although slowly, and still remains “markedly higher than those of U.S.-born women,” accounting for 23 percent of the babies born in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center.

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Population Decline in Industrial Countries Requires Immigration?

Is the decline of the West inevitable? Demographics can’t be manipulated like unemployment rates. A big shooting war in the next ten years, killing hundreds of thousands of young men, would seal the West’s fate.
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The United Nations projects that over the next 50 years, the population in the industrialized world (US-Europe-Japan) will DECLINE, not expand. The population is suffering from growing old and the youth are so burdened with taxes they are not getting married (marriages off by 50%) and are not having children. The decline in birth rates and the migration of people from the outer regions into the old core is typical.

The UN is now supporting immigration to keep the pension funds alive. They have stated that immigration now “require[s] comprehensive reassessments of many established policies and programmes, including those relating to international migration.”