Comments for Robert Samuelson Is Worried That the United States is Becoming Less Crowded at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.cepr.net Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:05:15 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robert-samuelson-is-worried-that-the-united-states-is-becoming-less-crowded#comment-2784 Tucked away in our [url=http://www.timberland4you.co.uk/]timberland for you[/url] subconscious is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that [url=http://www.timberland4you.co.uk/Men's-6-Inch-Timberland-Boots/Men's_Blue_Timberland_6-inch_Boot.html]timberland 6 inch[/url] spans the continent. 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Perhaps an unemployed comedian could fill the spot. - Richard Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:03:35 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robert-samuelson-is-worried-that-the-united-states-is-becoming-less-crowded#comment-2026 ...when R Samuelson says something idiotic.. - vinnie the p Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:11:48 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robert-samuelson-is-worried-that-the-united-states-is-becoming-less-crowded#comment-2025 I for one am in favor of more population (workers), much more, as I hear all the time that the current workforce won't be able to pay enough into Social Security so I and the rest of my Boomer buddies can retire in leisure. But the Republicans have an answer - cut Social Security benefits, ship all the immigrants back to Mexico (no matter where they're from) and force all American women to carry all pregnancies to term. That should do it. - Queen of Sheba Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:27:33 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robert-samuelson-is-worried-that-the-united-states-is-becoming-less-crowded#comment-2023 Working sharing is all good bc that means we have more time for vacation, family, etc. We are all into that but with less pay, can we still afford the same house, vacatation, retirement? Does Prof. Baker suggest with work sharing, all the cost will suddenly decline at the same rate or more so standard of living will be the same as b4? Work sharing has been implemented for many city, county, and state workers! They said they cannot wait for that furloug made permanent. Yeah. - James Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:48:14 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robert-samuelson-is-worried-that-the-united-states-is-becoming-less-crowded#comment-2012 A few years ago, a Republican woman politician expressed the same dismay as Samuelson does, but she backed up her feelings with some hard empirical data. The U.S., she said, is much less densely populated than the Netherlands and Japan and so can easily take on more population. Then she gave some numbers relating people per square mile or kilometer. Apparently, it never occurred to her that soaring mountain ranges and vast parched deserts don't provide the means to support anyone, or that areas that receive 10 inches of rainfall a year may only be good for seasonal grazing. But, hey, at least she was able to hold two concepts in mind simultaneously--pretty good for a Republican. Speaking of which, I think that of the three, Hannity, Limbaugh, and Beck (or is it OReilly?), one of them managed to finish his first semester of college. - diesel Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:35:10 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robert-samuelson-is-worried-that-the-united-states-is-becoming-less-crowded#comment-2009 We have to be the biggest! We must continue to grow, population, GDP, everything! How else can we continue our global hegemonic conquest?!? Remember, empires require constant expansion... Oh, I second the metro-rush sarcasm... but they are designed poorly. I think if they were NYC style you would have WAY more standing room, and many more people. - Nick B in DC Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:23:00 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robert-samuelson-is-worried-that-the-united-states-is-becoming-less-crowded#comment-2007 It's worth noting that another consequence of negative population growth will be that as supply of labor lags behind demand, lower paying jobs will be left with labor shortages. At this point, we'll be FORCED to turn to immigrant labor to fill the demand. Also, negative population growth is not solely an American issue. Already, many developed nations are facing this issue. In time (likely less than three generations), the US will actually have to COMPETE to attrack immigrant workers and will have to offer INCENTIVES for immigrants to choose to work in the US, over other nations trying to fill their labor supply shortages. Quite a turnaround from the current "attitude" towards immigration. - Brendan Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:50:51 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robert-samuelson-is-worried-that-the-united-states-is-becoming-less-crowded#comment-2005 It's part of the ongoing chronic fixation on supply over demand determinants of economic output, indeed the ultimate case of supply creating its own demand via more population, which BTW is a contradiction within such a classical pre-Keynes, Say's Law framework, where the opposite is the case - less supply simply offsets and balances itself with less demand while maintaining full employment. Again, Baker points out the obvious, that if there's not enough demand to absorb existing supply, more can be generated by sharing produced output among more willing workers, rather than wallowing in long-term predictions of fear about a shrinking population which cannot produce enough supply in the first place, which for many is little more than code for a culture war of one sort or another. If Samuelson was a firefighter, he would never put out a fire because it would cut into his long term reserves for putting out future fires, which peak just when everything has been burned down by fires. - izzatzo Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:33:05 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robert-samuelson-is-worried-that-the-united-states-is-becoming-less-crowded#comment-2003 It's not a question of ineptness but of who controls the economy. For over 40 years the thrust of Fed and government policy has been to keep down wages - in other words to return to a Malthusian economy. - skeptonomist Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:41:57 +0100