Posted on 01/19/2013 4:23:50 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
California is losing its children.
After decades of simultaneously worrying about and cashing in on its ever-growing population, the Golden State now awaits a new challenge: too few children and, eventually, too few skilled and able-bodied workers.
"Kids are no longer overrunning us. Now they're in short supply," said Dowell Myers, a demographer at the University of Southern California. "It changes the priorities for the state."
The number of California babies born each year began dropping steadily in 2007, according to state public health records, but the birthrate began slowing years before.
From 2002 to 2011, there was a statewide decrease in births of 5 percent.
Around Southern California, the trend can be seen across many counties. Los Angeles County saw a nearly 14 percent decrease in births in the same time period.
Within the county, similar declines were seen in San Gabriel Valley and in the South Bay.
Long Beach saw the number of live births decline quickly - by 7 percent - in just three years.
In the San Fernando Valley, from 2005 to 2010 the birthrate dropped from 13.5 births per 1,000 residents to 12.2 births per 1,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailynews.com ...
Problem for California is, those white kids have a tendency to grow up to be taxpayers. The illegal immigrant offspring, not so much. They're running out of other peoples' money!
Those gay couples had better get busy popping out babies.../sarc
>Declining birthrate poses challenge to California’s future<
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Import enough illegals from Mexico to get the desired quota.
Skilled and able-bodied workers leaving CA poses challenge to California's future....
No longer. If you live in California, you'll probably have to visit your grandchildren in another state.
I needed that, God bless, I laughed hard!
Probably more because queers there have exceedingly low birth rates.
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It’s not the declining birth rate that’s the problem. The problem is that all their children are being born with feet.
Maybe if so many hadn’t been scraped out of the mothers wombs.....
“Attrition of white babies is being compensated for by welcoming pregnant illegal aliens from Mexico and birthing their babies at the expense of the white families who can’t afford to have children of their own. SICK!”
I guess you didn’t bother to actually read the article itself. Because it points out that HISPANIC BIRTHS in California have DECLINED at a greater rate than any other group!
Fiji, You are an absolute MORON! There are lots of areas of San Francisco where people raise their children successfully in decent neighborhoods. I don’t know what rock you live under but your moronic rhetoric suggests that it may be a place where the plumbing is outdoors.
watch Demographic Winter at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxUD8E-qbyI&feature=youtube_gdata
There are VERY serious economic problems ahead. And Latino birth rate is crashing!
Chesterton on birth control/population control: In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in which he said that “The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.”
OK, so which neighborhoods in Frisco are fabulous places to raise children? SOMA? The Castro District? Haight-Ashbury? The Mission District?
How about North Beach or Hunter's Point?
That is an ignorant statement. The city is cosmopolitan and diverse. Although known for it's queers and assh*le politicians, the outer neighborhoods have normal family folks. One of my daughters lives in the Richmond district alongside GG Park with her husband and baby. Her choice, to be close to her tech job. The district is filled with baby strollers and children. The Sunset district has chinese families with kids. The outer Mission district has mexican and filipino families with kids. The Castro district has the queers and faggots, but is just one of many districts, although they are the loudest and most obnoxious. San Francisco did not even make the top of the list of gayest cities, that title passed on several years ago. I doubt that SF will soon return to being a republican city, which it was for more than half of the 20th century. But some normal people live here.
The Sunset, The Western Additon and Stonestown come to mind. But for me, the issue is your trash talk about a whole city. Sure there are places to be avoided in SF, but show me a large city where that’s not the case. And you come off with this BS about “oh don’t take your kids there, they might get tainted.” It’s just so beneath the dignity of FR and does nothing for the discourse. There are many cities that I would like to avoid, but San Francisco isn’t one of them. BTW, I guess you haven’t been to either Hunter’s Point or China Basin lately. The new construction in those areas is amazing. As for the Haight (where I was born 72 years ago) and the Castro, they may have lifestyles with which you may have a problem, but they don’t have an inordinately high crime rate. You don’t see violent crime of much consequence (like it’s not Chigago). I have a relative who works for one of the major commercial construction firms in SF. I am told that there is so much building going on that the city has had to relent on its policy of requiring that labor on city projects come from within the city confines because all those people are all already working. And I know it may well be an a problem for you ( I know it is for me) but there are no call lists in the union halls either. So while I don’t like the SF politics, I do like the city itself. And I take exception to the likes of you and your trash talk nonsense!
Well, I have seen with my own eyes people in Frisco walking around or riding their bikes naked—something I have never seen anywhere else in the world—so for that reason alone, I would never bring a kid there. And I wouldn’t want to bring kids anywhere near the “Gay Pride” parade or the Folsom or Dore Alley “street fairs”—check out the Americans for Truth website or do a keyword search on this board if you want more information. I’m not going to post racy pictures.
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