For years now I've been trying to understand why our elected officials have basically ignored our immigration problem. We all know from watching what's happened over the last 20 years how politicians have done nothing to address the porous border between the U.S. and Mexico. Why?
I figured there had to be a reason behind it, but I just couldn't put a logical, reasonable finger on it. I thought they were attempting to bolster their voter base, or bring in more from other countries who would tend to support their leftist revolutionary ideology. While there may be something to this, I seriously doubt it's the main driving force behind it all.
Allow me to explain... I'll start by asking a question: What do you think is the most critical commodity to any nation's economic viability? I suspect most of you are naming off something like precious metals, water, oil, land, food, etc. Well, while most of those are important to our modern economy, none of them are it. Very few have ever learned, or studied about cycles. Most of us are somewhat aware of them as a natural phenomenon of nature such as the seasons, or the tides of the ocean and such, but how many have studied the cycles of national populations. When correlated with birth booms due to, say wars, or famines, and the resulting rebound of the particular region, or country affected, a delayed effect takes place over decades as those new children grow up and become working, productive members of society.
So, if people impact a country's economy, whether it's growing up and contributing to an economic boom, or that boom population growing old and no longer spending as much due to going into retirement, it's not difficult to see how there's a connection between our own baby boomers - of which I'm one of hundreds of millions - and the fact that they are now reaching those lesser spending years at a rate of 10,000/day right now; and have been for several years now if one examines the stats related to them.
How does this relate to immigration, you ask? I suspect some of you may have already made the logical and obvious mental leap to what I'm going state as my basis of my theory of why our immigration situation has been ignored by our government. It's my understanding that the various committees in Congress have commissioned a plethora of studies by bean counters on future trends for the nation. I suspect that, because they've become aware of the reality of what I've cited above regarding the baby boomers going into retirement at such a high rate, coupled with the reality that Congress is addicted to spending beyond its tax revenue income stream, it's not that far of a stretch to speculate that the only solution to propping up the taxes needed to sustain a level even close to what the nation enjoyed during the 25 year period of 1975 - 2000, would be to allow a massive number of immigrants into the country; even illegally.
Think for a second... it's a known fact that our nation's immigration policy was ended in the 1920s to allow all those European groups who'd entered through Ellis Island and other points to assimilate into our culture. Then, in 1965 or so, Congress passed a new immigration policy which reopened foreigners to come into the country once again. And, it's been climbing ever since. Why? I contend that it was, in part, to address what projects indicated was to be the inevitable decline of our nation's own baby boomer spending trends which one, or more of their commissioned studies about future population trends for the country would be in the decades ahead.
What sparked this theory? An online presentation by one Harry Dent. Instead of taking the effort to provide information about who he is here, I invite you to simply use this link to his most recent page on the Internet to watch and listen to his presentation about his own research on this topic. I must warn you, it's pretty long, but it also has some very interesting and hard to argue against points which he covers over the duration of the presentation. But be patient, while it may be long, it's also difficult to discount much of what he's saying about his discovery of economic cycles.
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