Posted on 12/11/2006 10:22:42 AM PST by NYer
Things get expensive when people have more money to spend on stuff. The median price of a house would be lower if there were more demand for affordable housing. Why do you think developers are focusing on building McMansions? Cuz that's where the demand is (because the leisure culture takes its free schools and drops junior off at the free school in an SUV he/she cannot afford).
Know why medicine is expensive? Because, in a culture of leisure, insurance policies have to cover Viagra as well as flu shots. Because people of leisure worry about every little ache and pain and want to be poked and prodded by a doc at your expense.
Veblen was right.
Sorry if you are being pulled along in the tide of the culture so that, even if you want affordable housing or medicine, you can't find it. If you want to know how to reverse this, start by wanting to fight the cause, which is a self-absorbed materialistic West. And be ready to fight more and whine less.
Oh, I know how to reverse it. It IS all being reversed.
Lationos are breeding their way to superiority, and America remains a democracy. How will they execute their majority?
By voting for a more comprehensive social safety net: pre-school, schools, Medicare, Social Security, and public assistance for housing.
That's the future, because that's where the birth rate is, obviously.
The silver lining in it all may be that Hispanics might carry forward enough of their Catholicism to start blocking abortion (which is illegal everywhere in Latin America except Cuba).
I accept these things as a given. Certainly it is eminently possible to undo it, but the only force in the country that can muster the power to do THAT would be government, and Americans are too divided and disagree too sharply with each other to have any prospect of actually harnessing government to move a comprehensive agenda.
So, Hispanics will come to power and move THEIR agenda, which will be based on directly addressing their needs in their poverty. At least it will be an honest and straightforward agenda.
You know, it occurs to me that all of us married Freepers ought to step away from our computers, into the arms of our spouses, and do something more...ahem...productive this evening.
For the good not just of the Republic, but for Western Civilization itself!
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Go for it!! May God bless you abundantly.
Blaming others is easy. Be an independent and follow your own conscience; not the government issued one. And that goes for your children as well.
If this true, the Eldest Daughter of the Church is mortally wounded.
We are more than serious about home schooling here. Our two girls, 12 & 14, are both doing at least college-level work and have been offered a research job with a peer reviewed paper at the end.
RESPONSE: That is certainly one factor; which is merely a sign of a death wish, which flows from a love of vice. See the Romans.
My wife and I just had a boy--I quit telling people she was pregnant 'cuz all I ever got was:
"Oh, your life is over...."
"I guess you'll going to give up golf."
"Oh, you're going to have to get rid of your motorcycle."
"Get used to not sleeping."
"Are you going to quit the National Guard?"
Heck, that was from my friends and co-workers! Some of whom have kids!
It was unrelenting negativity from people. I think it is a wonderful, wonderful thing, but I don't even tell people I have a young kid for all the crap comments I get....
In New Mexico, in the Hispanic community, everybody is crazy about kids and shows them off.
In the Hispanic community, a man's life doesn't begin until he's a father, in my dopey white society, a man's life is over when he becomes a father....
If working women gave up on the brand new cars stayed at home and homeschooled they could afford to have 4-6 kids feminism and materialism is death of the west.
Maybe some working MEN should do the same. Why does it have to be the women who stay at home?
I did for 14 months and did a great job at it.
'Cuz I can't breast feed....
"That means that there MUST be public schools, and there MUST be medical insurance programs or safety nets for people to have the number of children they have to have for the population to remain stable and to grow."
Uhhh, no. Most of the large families I'm familiar with home educate their children. While I'd agree that Government schools are necessary, that's in the same way that I'd argue that prisons and lunatic asylums are necessary. Not desirable, but a fact of life.
As for medical insurance, we're already 3/4 the way to socialized medicine. We just aren't seeing any of the alleged benefits.
As for safety nets, the fact that we are paying the level of taxes we do and have so little to show for it speaks volumes about why socialism does not work.
"For the good not just of the Republic, but for Western Civilization itself!"
I'll be sure to remind my wife of that. :-)
We have plenty to show for it.
We have life expectancies practically in our 80s, versus in the 50s last century before these programs began.
We have older people still fully independent, because of Social Security payments, as opposed to being thrown on the mercy of their children, and a tremendous burden to their children too, as back then.
We have not had a Great Depression, nor anything approximating it, in the 70 years since we regulated banking and the stock market, vice the cycle of severe depressions every 25-30 years in the 19th Century, culminating in the Great Depression.
Most large families in the USA are Hispanic, and use the public schools.
People live longer, are healthier, and as a whole, the country is better educated than before we did these things.
"White people are afraid to have kids. The entire culture is anti-child and the media makes it seem like an extreme sport."
Our society is incredibly anti-child. From the cultural norms to tax policy. I'm surprised we manage to have as many of them as we do.
That'll change, though. In 50 years those segments of society who are choosing not to have children simply won't be around to matter.
Oh and congratulations on the birth of your little boy! I hope you'll choose to have more in spite of the knuckleheads who are choosing demographic suicide.
"Maybe some working MEN should do the same. Why does it have to be the women who stay at home?"
It doesn't and I know of several men who have done exactly that.
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