Posted on 01/29/2010 2:28:37 PM PST by Bokababe
Long but fascinating article on how economies, birthrates, social policies and taxes are all affecting each other, and prosperity, freedom and having lots of babies go hand in had.
Short version: Help the US economy by having more babies!
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
get to work people!!
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How freedom, low taxes and having babies relate to a county’s economic prosperity.
The Culture of Life versus ...
The democrat party, who is the financier of baby murder assembly lines and death panels!
Just finished reading Mark Steyn’s “America Alone”, it is about this subject. It will scare you as to where we will be in 50 years. The US birth rate is at 2.11 kids per family, barely enough to keep the country (culture) going. Most Muslim countries are closer to 5-6 kids per family. They will out breed us and take over. In Italy the rate is barely 1 per family, in 50 years they will breed themselves, the Italian culture, out of existence.
You don't have to be an environmentalist to know we have finite resources and cannot expand infinitely. Populations will fluctuate to achieve an equilibrium.
I personally feel like the Earth would be a better place if our population adjusted down a couple billion.
Can’t say I disagree. War, disease, and famine usually are the catalysts to achieve that equilibrium.
I was raised on the dictum of "limited resources so populations should limit themselves". What I found interesting about this article was that it somewhat contradicted that maxim with evidence, especially in industrial countries.
It seems that humans find new resources or create them in or to sustain themselves -- a complete contradiction to what most of us were taught to believe.
Unfortunately, most of the potential work force are ill-equipped to do anything but ask “ Do you want fries with that?”.... some of the rest of the available work force are living off the fat of the [EBT] land....
Afraid to ask how you think that could be accomplished!!
I've given the US economy six hard-working Americans. I've done my part.
Man, am I tired .. LOL
Drive the US from coast to coast and see just how much empty space we have in this country alone. It’ll boggle your mind.
Now repeat that exercise on a couple of other continents, and you’ll quickly change your mind about the human race being in danger of running out of space, or resources.
Some university study once found that you could put the population of the earth (all 6 billion) in standard three bedroom houses (two car garage, with yards and all - four people per house), in typical suburban tracts, and they would all fit neatly inside the state of Texas.
Human’s are the ultimate resource, while that seems to many, counterintuitive. Overpopulation is not the problem. The lack of free enterprise is the problem. Many countries are crippled by centrally controlled economies. The U.S. is showing the effects of central planning. Holdren and Ehrlich propose active measures to cut world population by more than half, probably because, like many arrogant academician/idiologues, they never produced anything other than criticism of the productive society themselves. Holdren is now a Theresa Kerry funded idiologue at Harvard's Kennedy school while Paul Ehrlich is a Bing Professor and Anne get's funded by Tides, Environmental Defense Fund (trial lawyers) and their fellow travelers. When Norman Borlaug’s green revolution, genetic engineering, took hold in Bangladesh, contrary to Ehrlich's prediction of hundreds of millions of deaths from starvation, Bangladesh became a food exporter.
Oh please.
You’re right, where will all the soylent green come from?
I actually wasn’t thinking about the economy at the time, although I think about the economy fairly often. My husband has been known to find conversations that start, “Dr. Friedman said ...” off-putting.
Interesting post.
The birthrate amongst people who raise productive members of society is too low. That of the group who breed dependents on society is WAY TOO HIGH.
Conclusion, anybody with any sense at all knows that the resource base is finite ...more isn’t the answer.
Well, forgive me if I assume that most of the people that I am talking to here on FR are "productive members of society" who should be breeding. LOL!
Conclusion, anybody with any sense at all knows that the resource base is finite ...more isn’t the answer.
Well of course, it's "finite". But when productive members of society quit breeding to try and make up for the high breeding rates of the non-productive, that's when we've really got problems.
I was raised on that Liberal idea of a human population explosion, assuming it was responsible NOT to have kids -- or have only one to make up for those who were breeding like rabbits -- when precisely the opposite is true. The better off you are the more kids you should be having because their productivity makes up for their use of resources and may even create resources that don't currently exist.
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