Here's the links:
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/19/1112259628/us-birth-rate-increase-replacement
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/birth-rate
So apparently, The US Total Fertility rate (Not the Birth rate, but Total Fertility Rate, which takes into account deaths, women having their second, third, etc. Child and at what age, etc. Don't ask me how this is calculated since I don't understand the convoluted formula used to determine it), has increased by a little over 1% annually since 2019.
I know that doesn't seem like a lot, but it seems to be rather steady, and if it continues holding up like this, then we'll reach replacement value in the United states within the next 24 years. I know that seems like a long time, but when you consider places like Japan have been trying, and failing, to reverse birthrate decline for going on 70 years now, that's actually a reasonable amount of time.
Though, combine this with a future booming economy thanks to Trump coming back, implementation of Hungary style birth and family incentives (which Trump has talked about doing before and even invited the Prime Minister of Hungary to talk at GOP conventions to discuss his success with such policies), as well as the current religious revival going on (which I personally credit this miracle to since I fully believe God is saving our nation from itself), and it's entirely likely that we can cut that 24 year figure in half or thirds.
So with a little bit of controlled LEGAL immigration, which is normal for the US, and we can not only maintain our population, but even continue to grow it without third world importation.
Just something I came across while doing my normal autistic news searching for anything mildly interesting, or comm-ish. Figured I'd share this bit of good news with all my fellow pedes so we can have a bit of legit hopium to look forward too.
Literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. A growing population is a sign of a healthy economy and prosperous nation. Look at Japan, the country with the worst population decline in the world. Has the lowest happiness rating of any country, everyone is miserable, most have given up on personal relationships, the young people have devolved into porn addicts ("herbivore man" is a term in Japan used to describe a young man with no interest in real women because he knows he'll never be able to support a gf/wife or a family so he only has "feelings" for 2d women in manga, anime, and hentai), Suicide is at an all time high among young people, and while drug use isn't very high in Japan, Alcohol abuse is amongst the highest in the world.
This isn't everything either, it's just a few consequences of a declining population I can think of off the top of my head.
So no, growing populations are "just to enrich corporations and bankers". They're a vital part of a healthy economy and prosperous nation.
You know, most illegals don't own land right? They might own a house, but very rarely do they own raw land up here. Mainly because of what I pointed out. They work up here, then will often buy farms of their own back in their home country, usually in cash.
And yes, we DO need a growing population. The larger your population, the more leverage you have in the international stage. That's literally the only reason India and china are deemed important on the world stage. They're the only two nations with more than a billion people "officially" (China doesn't really have a billion people, but that's another topic).
The more people you have, the more leverage you have with things like tarrifs. Want to stop paying federal income taxes completely and replace it with tariffs like everyone keeps talking about? Well that's impossible without the US having a large population of consumers for the rest of the world to deal with. We have the third largest population on the planet after India and China. That's our biggest leverage point when it comes to import and export tariffs.
You wan to do business with the worlds largest economy and third largest consumer base (largest consumer base by some standards since Americans consume more per capita than other nations), then you'll have to pay the tariff to do so.
If our population falls off and it's not as profitable to do business with the United States, then tariffs will fail, and we'll be back to income taxes and other means to fund our government.
Population growth is a lot more important economically than people realize.