Shrinking populations? There’s no need to wonder, look at the wealthiest western European countries, and see the birthrates falling. The population is actually shrinking excepting immigrants, but I’ll come back to that later. Social welfare systems, and I include the US’s Social Security system in this as well, is founded on the prinicpal that more people will be paying in to the system than receiving support from it. When birthrates start falling, the system will fall apart or the younger generation will have to pay more into it. Think your taxes are high now wait till the post WW2 generation starts to receive their pensions. They are going to skyrocket. How else will these guaranteed benefits be paid for? Let’s all keep in mind that there is no such thing as a free lunch! Sombody has got to pay for it. Who then? How about the immigrants? Make them all citizens and then they get to start paying taxes as well and support the rest of us in our old age! I believe that Europe as well as the US will not accept this easily or willingly. It seems that in France one of the main reasons the native born children of immigrant families were rioting is that they were not given opportunities to get jobs or become part of the mainstream. We have similar problems in the United States as well. Immigration and assimilation are just not made easier by ignoring race and origin they are however easier to ignore. Let’s not turn our backs on the immigrants that come to take the low wage jobs, they are our lifeline to future prosperity. Look no further than the plaque on the base of the Statue of Liberty, donated by the French.
Shrinking populations? There’s no need to wonder, look at the wealthiest western European countries, and see the birthrates falling. The population is actually shrinking excepting immigrants, but I’ll come back to that later. Social welfare systems, and I include the US’s Social Security system in this as well, is founded on the prinicpal that more people will be paying in to the system than receiving support from it. When birthrates start falling, the system will fall apart or the younger generation will have to pay more into it. Think your taxes are high now wait till the post WW2 generation starts to receive their pensions. They are going to skyrocket. How else will these guaranteed benefits be paid for? Let’s all keep in mind that there is no such thing as a free lunch! Sombody has got to pay for it. Who then? How about the immigrants? Make them all citizens and then they get to start paying taxes as well and support the rest of us in our old age! I believe that Europe as well as the US will not accept this easily or willingly. It seems that in France one of the main reasons the native born children of immigrant families were rioting is that they were not given opportunities to get jobs or become part of the mainstream. We have similar problems in the United States as well. Immigration and assimilation are just not made easier by ignoring race and origin they are however easier to ignore. Let’s not turn our backs on the immigrants that come to take the low wage jobs, they are our lifeline to future prosperity. Look no further than the plaque on the base of the Statue of Liberty, donated by the French.