Good Bloomberg article on SS: Gingrich off the reservation for a sec

[MSgt213]

U.S. Births, Immigration May Ease Pressures on Social Security

Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Tara Trent of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, has three girls, with another child on the way in June. The 31-year- old homemaker and her husband, Ken, talk of having a fifth baby. Big families aren't unusual in the neighborhood, she says.

``Ken says we're not going to have any workforce later,'' Tara says with a laugh. ``So we've got to pump these kids out to take care of us.''

The Trents are part of a demographic phenomenon in the U.S. unmatched in any of its major trading partners: Americans are having more babies. The trend, combined with an annual inflow of immigrants that is more than the rest of the developed world combined, may undercut a key argument behind President George W. Bush's plan to allow private Social Security accounts: that the current system faces an emergency because of a sharp decline in the size of the future U.S. workforce.

Even Newt Gingrich, the Republican former speaker of the House of Representatives and a supporter of private accounts, says, ``The combination of higher birth rates and more immigration makes the United States the healthiest of developed nations. This is not a crisis.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aziXgxWAuigc&refer=us

[Spinzonner]

1. Much more of that and the Bushistas

will be force-feeding him meds.

(Remember the Armitage comment re Gingrich ?)