Reply #54: Unless a population pyramid can create a real estate pyramid...

[Deep13]

...your model is unsustainable.

"We need the infux of families and young people to pay for care of the againg population."

And who will pay for them when they are old? More people will create more labor but also a demand for it. It will not create more energy, natural resources or undeveloped land. What will we do when the entire nation looks like the Northeast seaboard? Don't you understand that the more people there are, the less each one is worth? So we will produce less. If there are less people to need products, that will be a good thing. Do you care at all what all this production is doing to this once lush planet? It now appears to be in a death spiral because of us--Americans. The icecaps are melting, the reefs are dying, there are huge dead zones in the water where nothing can live. The water is poisoned, the air is unbreathable, cities in the desert are one water stoppage away from disaster and the lakes here in Ohio have not frozen in years.

"So the Bush/Hannity argument doesn't fly."

The Bush argument is to let them stay to provide cheap labor.

The bottom line is the vicious cycle you are advocating will ultimately kill itself. An economy cannot expand forever. Besides, our economy is bigger than it has ever been, so production is not the problem. For America to say we need more labor, more energy and more jobs is a bit like a fat man saying he needs more Twinkies. Economists need to learn how to subtract.