<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Yeah, it's really hard to do statistics on immigration when wars are driving people over national lines. I think we are welcoming top people to our universities, many of whom stay, right? But I think we may be the most welcoming nation there is, or we used to be. The Japanese aren't exactly welcoming. Don't know about other countries.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:56 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_6982419942488038622WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_6982419942488038622gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Another issue: 98 countries according to Google have birth rates below replacement. Result: fewer people working to support the retired and to pay off debts. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Eh, not necessarily. Birth isn’t the only way for a country to get new citizens, and really isn’t even the best way. If a country allows in and naturalizes only those that country chooses, then that country gets people who are capable of contributing to pay those debts, rather than those who contribute to creating more debt.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">That’s the difference between legal and illegal immigration.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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