Bill Clinton and Chuck Schumer Both Advocate Increased Immigration

 

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Former Rhodes Scholar and US President Bill Clinton maintained in a speech at a fish fry that immigration was necessary to maintain the economic growth that makes the US such a nifty place because US women are refusing to reproduce. Oswald Spengler predicted and explained this phenomenon years ago in his classic "The Decline of the West".

As many Yankees are coming to realize, increasing amounts of immigration won't produce a dynamic US economy but instead will result in a different national entity as time goes by. Just as the invasion by Europeans eliminated the native cultures and populations in and after the dawn of the 16th century, immigration to Europe and North America will eventually mean the birth of a new culture. All the riches that were showered on the military-industrial complex to prevent the Bolsheviks from changing Texas to a warmer and more Baptist Siberia will have been wasted.

The elites of the West apparently believe that they and their maybe descendants will be insulated from such a development, the current proles just being replaced by a more exotic harmless version. The Ivy League alumni will still be the decision makers.

We regularly hear about the impending doom of Japan from a diminishing birth rate. In fact, we've been hearing about it for many years. But Japan is still around, doing odd Japanese things that are authorized or ignored by the US, who is using the island chain as an advance aircraft carrier in the western Pacific.

The concern over a falling US birth rate has nothing to do with preserving the country as a society or culture. If it did, obviously the educational system and other cultural influences would talk females out of aborting their unborn. This they have not attempted to do. So replacing the deceased isn't about continuity, or sustainability, currently a favorite word, but instead, like everything else, an issue of wealth.

The fertility rate doesn't need to drop very much before the financial mavens worry about the most serious problem, consequent declines in asset values. Most concrete assets decrease in value when the surrounding population falls, except perhaps senior living facilities. Most of the time assets are purchased with the expectation that they will either produce income or increase in value. Homes on the fruited plain aren't just places to live. The idea that they will increase in value makes them an investment, a source of funds for tuition at the senior living facility. For business, real estate is the best security for loans, as long as it increases in value.

A trip through rural America demonstrates how it works. Small towns are, for lack of population, shuttering their operations. Agriculture, the most important industry in the world, now needs a fraction of the work force it once did. The farm land prices are rising but the homes and businesses in the villages are closing up. A decline in fertility will spread this affliction everywhere if immigrants aren't allowed to replace Americans. Someone must pay the rent on the many thousands of new apartments still being built in the suburbs or the banks may be offended.