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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (768785)	3/6/2009 12:27:45 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

"No wonder both parties open the borders...with the misguided hope that this will add to economic growth with complete disregard to spending." Interesting thing though... Go talk to a demographer --- (once a few minimal conditions are satisfied first with regard to per capita wealth and education levels) --- then the single factor that is MOST STRONGLY associated with increased economic growth and increased national wealth is a gradually rising population. (Even more important at the margin then additional inputs of capital or natural resources....) Many people look at China's Billion plus population today (or India's which seems certain to pass China's before too long, given the birth control policies China follows...) but the United States is set to resume a more rapid population growth (after about 2035 or so) then the other two....