China has 1.2 billion people. The USA has about 330 million. We have about one quarter the population of China. For many reasons that I think are obvious, but which I will explain below the fold, size matters for nations.

If we want to stay one of the leading nations of the world we need to grow a lot. Controlled, organized and rapid immigration is the only available means to accomplish this.

So Paradox Two is that we profess to want to complete with China. The only way to do that is to grow our population through immigration and yet we limit legal immigration to less than one third of one percent of our population each year. Millions of people from around the world would move here and help us complete with China and we won’t let them.

We are being stupid, short-sighted and paranoid.