U.S. Population, 2009: 305 Million and Counting
Recession or no, the country is growing
- 305,529,237: U.S. population estimate for Jan. 1, 2009
- 2,743,429: Population added since Jan. 1, 2008
- 8: Estimated number of seconds between births in January 2009
- 12: Estimated number of seconds between deaths in January 2009
- 1: Estimated number of immigrants added to the population every 36 seconds in January 2009
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau
Reader Comments
Military Spending helps overall ecomony
JazzyBel Sagacity of CA
Ask why we don't cut back on Military spending?(my Paraphrase) Let me remind you!
1. Salary to military men goes to support them and their families mostly here in the States thus it boost our economy
2. Nearly all military equipment is manufactured in the U.S. in private firms which employs non military employees and their paychecks help our economy.
3. The raw material are from the US as well, not all but much of it. Thus it helps our economy.
4. Yes, we have invested in the infrastructure of other countries, but we have don't it with US supplies and Manpower. Thus helping our economy.
The idea that military spending is wasted and does not help our economy is foolish.
Demographics
Population growth in the US is a favorable trend, if analyzed from a purely economic-based perspective. Our economy and health-care system cannot sustain itself without the influx of revenue into our tax, social security, and labor market. Even when looking at the illegal immigration problem, although unbalanced in the area of health care (Emergency Rooms are where most illegal immigrants receive their care at the expense of the hospital), the US economy would be in dire straits without the growth in labor capital from hispanic countries. This is particularly true in states like California, Texas, Arizona, etc. Now, all of this is not to say that our political leaders should necessarily plan on these trends for long-term tax revenue plans, because the way our debt is accruing from government overspending, inflation is going to overtake those numbers within the next few years. At the rate our government is bailing out the financial system and spending on stimulus projects, we are going to need to double our population within about 7 years if we want to avoid massive debt problems as a nation.
So Pelosi thinks we can provide health care for the low cost of $295 per person? ($90Bil per year/305Mil Americans = $295).
So who thinks we can provide health care for the cost of $295 per person? ($90Bil per year/305Mil Americans = $295).
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