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2026-02-02 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

America's Population Is Set to Start Shrinking in 2030. Can It Be Reversed?

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Posted by Besoeker 2026-02-02 09:02|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1800 views ] Top

1 The "shrinking" in rural America began several decades prior to 2030.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-02-02 09:20|| 2026-02-02 09:20|| Front Page Top

2 Mother 'with money problems does unthinkable to her one-month-old baby to pocket $10,000'

Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-02 10:17|| 2026-02-02 10:17|| Front Page Top

3 Actually the non-repro is on the Left. Natural selection. Those on the Right are still at replacement levels. In 1970 we had 250M, today we have 340M. Somehow we muddled through with fewer people. Just quit subsidizing birthing factories in the urban environments.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-02-02 10:47|| 2026-02-02 10:47|| Front Page Top

4 Everyone reading rantburg is too old to contribute.

Posted by Angel of Death 2026-02-02 10:55|| 2026-02-02 10:55|| Front Page Top

5 We keep kids in school too long. We send kids to college who would don't belong there and graduate way too many with worthless degrees. We need more manufacturing jobs that pay well without requiring phony college degrees. How can people start a family if they have no income until they're in the mid-thirties?

Posted by Bill Crolulet2910 2026-02-02 11:14|| 2026-02-02 11:14|| Front Page Top

6 You've captured many of the truths Bill.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-02-02 11:23|| 2026-02-02 11:23|| Front Page Top

7 ^ Actually, that was Abu Uluque. Dunno what happened to my cookies.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-02-02 12:08|| 2026-02-02 12:08|| Front Page Top

8 Population cant shrink b/c of our ponzi financial system.

Posted by mossomo 2026-02-02 12:27|| 2026-02-02 12:27|| Front Page Top

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Given some of what it has produced, is that a bad thing?

Posted by NN2N1 2026-02-02 12:35|| 2026-02-02 12:35|| Front Page Top

10 If millions of illegals are deported the population will shrink by that number. That’s not a crisis, it’s a good start.

Posted by Megabyses 2026-02-02 13:56|| 2026-02-02 13:56|| Front Page Top

11 Americans are already below replacement. Immigration, legal and other has been the only reason we have had population growth.

The conservatives are at steady replacement rates on average. Liberals are like South Korea at replacement rates... aka .84 children per woman.

Guess who the future belongs to if the right doesn't allow the left to indoctrinate their children.

Posted by DarthVader 2026-02-02 18:03|| 2026-02-02 18:03|| Front Page Top

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