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[QUOTE="cuseinchina, post: 791713, member: 3079"]
In the long run economic growth is driven by either increased productivity or increased population.   Productivity can come from labor efficiencies and/or capital investment.  But population growth is the only other thing that will drive gdp growth when gdp is defined as the aggregate output of an economy.

I agree with the rest of your sentiments for the most part.   But it bothers me that republicans (and I sometimes vote republican) use immigration as a wedge issue and fear losing elections if the illegals become legal.   In reality Hispanics are a natural republican constituency - they are socially consrvative as a group given Catholicism, they are entrepreneurial and don't like taxes or red tape, and they believe in the value of sweat equity and pulling the bootstraps etc.   if republicans would stop fighting thee inevitable future and embrace them, maybe they'd have a hope of winning the presidency in the next twenty years.   W knows this, so do Jeb and Mitt.    But the rhetoric is at such a stupid level that even Marco Rubio can't fully support comprehensive immigration reform for fear of losing his job.   Man talk about winning the battle but losing the war.
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