10-11 June 2005
There is an interesting article in Investors Insight Daily, by John Mauldin, entitled "Whither Europe and the Euro." It deals with some of the reasons of why he feels the euro is in trouble against the dollar, which for a couple of years has itself been devalued by almost 50%. But the article and stated purpose is misleading. The real story is about the future of the world's population, about birth rates (some of his figures are misinterpreted, such as the slight recent change in U.S. fertility, to above 2.1 rather than 2.01...and in the world of demographics, that matters), and about immigration. It is a fact that between 175 and 185 million people are permanent immigrants in the world today. Of that number between 36 and 40 million live in the United States alone. Even with the problems we have had with immigration, a record number of people came legally into the USA last year, and a record came illegally, too.
Changes are being made to encourage students to not turn away from U.S. universities, the number of places made available to professionals, high-tech workers with advanced graduate degrees, the increased time allowed for researchers to stay in U.S. colleges, medical research centers, hospitals, and drug companies (just three weeks ago), and the opening of 50,000 more places for nurses and other health care support professionals to come in, all are evidence of an increased progress in adjusting our country's immigration to one that is helpful to the many decent people who wish to come here, while using our technology and other resources to secure our borders from criminals and terrorists. Four U.S. senators, led by Sen. John McCain (Republican-Arizona), have introduced and will likely pass a new major immigration reform bill that may eliminate many of the numerical limitations on legal immigration categories which have caused our backlog in applications. Some people have had to wait 20 years to come, and many talented, well-educated people have moved elsewhere.
Mauldin's article points the critical point that drastically falling birth rates are a threat to the ultimate prosperity of the world. That is a direct refutation of claims made for decades by population control advocates like Planned Parenthood, that overpopulation threatens the planet's quality of life. But then, I have never had much use for anything PP has ever stood for, beginning with its eugenics-spouting founder, Margaret Sanger. It is a strange fact, but true, that the USA, since the early 1980s, has been the only nation in the developed world whose birth rate has increased, from 1.8 to 2.1. All the information I've seen has been that most of the birth rates' growth has been due to immigration. Indeed, nearly half of America's growth of population in the past year (1.4 out of 2.9 million), has been due to the increase in the Hispanic and mostly immigrant population.
The point? That America is still the most hospitable place in the world for the immigrant. If there is someone you know who wants to live, work, or study here, it can be done. There are people who can, and will help. Some of them are people I know, and I have been involved myself.
Tomorrow I'll be putting up some links to some helpful information that you can pass along to that special person you know who wants to make the move to come to the USA. In the meantime, it is after 4 a.m., and I've got to get some sleep. See you later. Au revoir/Ciao/Adios. God bless.
Changes are being made to encourage students to not turn away from U.S. universities, the number of places made available to professionals, high-tech workers with advanced graduate degrees, the increased time allowed for researchers to stay in U.S. colleges, medical research centers, hospitals, and drug companies (just three weeks ago), and the opening of 50,000 more places for nurses and other health care support professionals to come in, all are evidence of an increased progress in adjusting our country's immigration to one that is helpful to the many decent people who wish to come here, while using our technology and other resources to secure our borders from criminals and terrorists. Four U.S. senators, led by Sen. John McCain (Republican-Arizona), have introduced and will likely pass a new major immigration reform bill that may eliminate many of the numerical limitations on legal immigration categories which have caused our backlog in applications. Some people have had to wait 20 years to come, and many talented, well-educated people have moved elsewhere.
Mauldin's article points the critical point that drastically falling birth rates are a threat to the ultimate prosperity of the world. That is a direct refutation of claims made for decades by population control advocates like Planned Parenthood, that overpopulation threatens the planet's quality of life. But then, I have never had much use for anything PP has ever stood for, beginning with its eugenics-spouting founder, Margaret Sanger. It is a strange fact, but true, that the USA, since the early 1980s, has been the only nation in the developed world whose birth rate has increased, from 1.8 to 2.1. All the information I've seen has been that most of the birth rates' growth has been due to immigration. Indeed, nearly half of America's growth of population in the past year (1.4 out of 2.9 million), has been due to the increase in the Hispanic and mostly immigrant population.
The point? That America is still the most hospitable place in the world for the immigrant. If there is someone you know who wants to live, work, or study here, it can be done. There are people who can, and will help. Some of them are people I know, and I have been involved myself.
Tomorrow I'll be putting up some links to some helpful information that you can pass along to that special person you know who wants to make the move to come to the USA. In the meantime, it is after 4 a.m., and I've got to get some sleep. See you later. Au revoir/Ciao/Adios. God bless.
