Changing Demography and Your Future

Good News for the United States

I do a radio talk show in Hartford, CT USA with Brad Davis on WDRC AM. The show is clearly conservative and very popular. Davis has me on once a month on the first Wednesday from 8 to 8:30 AM. Davis has a producer, Dave Thatcher, who has a knack for landing big name interviews. Last week my session was followed with Davis’ interview with Jesse Ventura, the former celebrity Governor of Minnesota. I kind of wondered why Davis keeps me coming back because I am really not a celebrity. I asked him recently and he said it was because my stuff is interesting and for the most part is good news that he does not hear anywhere else.

He said that his audience could use a little good news. Sad but true.

So if it’s good news you want its good news you’ll get, because there is a lot of it. Remember that my perspective is demographic.

The United States is in the best position to grow/ develop/advance economically, socially, politically and culturally as compared to all other Western nations. Why?

We are the only Western Nation that is having kids. Europe is not having kids and will be overrun with Muslim immigrants who overwhelm the continent in fifty years. Muslim culture and Western culture is non-homogenous. Say goodbye to Europe as we know it.

In business happiness is a positive cash flow. In demography happiness is a positive fertility rate above replacement level. The United States is just barely above replacement level but our birth rate is a very healthy four million plus per year thanks to our Latino immigrants. Half of the live births in the U.S. in 2007 were Latino. This is a very good thing. Latino culture is Western culture. They are wonderful immigrants who assimilate quickly.

Generation Y is huge. There are about ninety-six million of them under twenty-four years old in the U.S. This huge emerging labor force will bring industry back to the U.S. with a vengeance. China has eliminated its future labor force with its ludicrous one child policy. See the previous blog entry. Generation Y will experience high unemployment that will precipitate a resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit that we have not seen in the U.S. since the Baby Boomers opened millions of small businesses in the seventies. Small businesses are the back bone of our economic health. Generation Y is a consuming generation like no other. Consumption is consumer spending and high consumer spending is economic health. Our armed forces, business, industry and government will have its pick of the best and brightest. Good talent will advance our lead over the rest of the world especially in technology, well beyond where it is now. Generation Y is green through and through. They will be the engine that will position our Nation as the world leader in improving our planet’s ecology. Lastly Generation Y will be champions of human rights and that’s a very good thing.

So remember the United States has always been a complex country, but Generation Y is going to make it an even better country.