Government determined to increase population to 7 mil in 2030.

[arthur]

I don't know about politics and policies. But I know how a Ponzi scheme operates.

For a Ponzi scheme to continue, it has to attract more and more people into it. And at the same time, the people must be able to pay to join the scheme.

Businesses deliberate between organic growth and acquisition - which is cheaper and easier?

You can grow organic but if those you grow can't produce profits, why grow them?

I suppose you are talking about the following article.
http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=8321

Interestingly, Joseph Chamie gave an interview to Singapore research associate on the population policy in 2006.
http://www.cscollege.gov.sg/Knowledge/Et...20IS01.pdf
Page 6.

Another interesting one by Chamie
http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=8868
Basically, the author concludes that all gov policies are unlikely to raise TFR.

These four paragraphs are most striking to me.

Standard measures of GDP do not reflect, for example, the degradation of the environment, the depreciation of natural resources or declines in individuals’ quality of life.

According to Ponzi demography, population growth — through natural increase and immigration — means more people leading to increased demands for goods and services, more material consumption, more borrowing, more on credit and of course more profits. Everything seems fantastic for a while — but like all Ponzi schemes, Ponzi demography is unsustainable.

When the bubble eventually bursts and the economy sours, the scheme spirals downward with higher unemployment, depressed wages, falling incomes, more people sinking into debt, more homeless families — and more men, women and children on public assistance.

That is the stage when the advocates of Ponzi demography — notably enterprises in construction, manufacturing, finance, agriculture and food processing — consolidate their excess profits and gains. That leaves the general public to pick up the tab for the mounting costs from increased population growth (e.g., education, health, housing and basic public services).