Posted on 02/08/2019 10:18:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ordinary childbirth is the best way to terminate a pregnancy. Best outcome: mother and baby fine.
I think about that all the time. So many have to go outside America to adopt because it seems that this country doesn’t want them to adopt here as evidenced by the hoops they have to jump through and the money it cost......imho
If ONLY they would TRUST GOD!! GOD made that baby, and if the mother doesn’t want it, she will gain a place in heaven by having the baby and giving it to a good family...TRUST GOD....HE WANTS THAT BABY TO LIVE!!!
THAT needs to be on every thread!
1. Our economy is driven by a pathological obsession with expanding our gross domestic product (GDP) at all costs.
2. There are only two ways for GDP to grow from one year to the next: by population growth (i.e., more people producing output) and by productivity growth (i.e., each individual worker produces more output).
3. As the industrial age matured, the productivity of your average human had reached its peak. In fact, humans increasingly became seen as extraneous elements of an advanced economy as more and more labor functions were automated.
4. Automation led to dramatic advances in the productivity of individual workers, but a stagnation in productivity of the population as a whole. That is, the average productivity of the population remained static if a human worker became three times more productive while two co-workers were laid off. Once we reached this point in our history, it became more and more difficult for our GDP to grow.
5. One way to get around this problem was to engage in a socio-economic process that I call "the monetization of basic functions." This is a somewhat illusory phenomenon where the GDP expands simply as a result of people paying others to do things we used to do ourselves. A man who mows his own lawn, for example, contributes almost nothing to the nation's GDP after he buys the lawnmower. If he pays someone else to do it, you suddenly have a financial transaction that didn't exist before. An even more dramatic example is child care. Parents who put their kids in day care pay a lot of money to have someone else raise their kids. We raised our own kids through all of human history until the last hundred years ... but that wasn't good enough because the contribution to our GDP is almost $0 that way.
6. A second way to get around the problem of static GDP figures is "the elimination of unproductive humans." This is a utilitarian, nihilistic approach to dealing with impediments to GDP growth by: (A) eliminating "unproductive" people like children, (B) eliminating the "unproductive" time a working woman has when she bears children; (C) normalizing and promoting all kinds of pathologies and deviance that don't produce children (homosexuality, for example); and (D) importing people from other countries who are already adults and haven't been a drag on our productivity through childhood.
In a nutshell, folks ... our advanced, modern economy is simply running out of gas.
It's been a good ride while it lasted, I guess.
This issue is what affirmed my Pro-life beliefs when I was a very young. About 1990, my wife was pregnant with our second child as I had been watching a co-worker, a young engineer who had just passed his structural engineering exam to become a registered engineer and his wife spend a year jumping through hoops to be approved to be on an adoption waiting list... when they finally did get approved, they waited well over a year to finally get a child...
RE: when they finally did get approved, they waited well over a year to finally get a child...
Did you even ask them why it takes so long for a baby to be adopted in the USA?
Just how many children are in foster homes dur to the opiod crisis? I disagree that every aborted baby could have had a home.
People like to point out the issue of having to support these children in the welfare system if they’re not aborted. But my argument back to them is what about the millions of illegals that are supported by the same welfare system? They of course have no response to that. I’d certainly prefer to have my taxpayers spent on a baby born out-of-wedlock, than have my taxpayer dollars spent on people who break the law by coming here, and then expect a hand-out.
Physical capital (extracted from the available resources) and intellectual capital (most importantly that which enhances the physical) can accrue over time endowing general wealth.
To prosper, we must explore and gain new physical capital.
Being concerned with the GDP is not pathological. The last bit of wealth on the face of the Earth goes into a rice bowl (Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations).
Failure is starvation. Avoiding starvation is quite logical.
Earth First, tomorrow the stars.
I dont remember all the details but know it was endless interviews with idiodic questions... simply because of a physical problem with one of the parents being able to concieve, when these drug addicts were popping them out over and over, then abusing or abandoning their kids.
It isn’t a big win if the child’s brain has been destroyed by an irresponsible drug-infested mother.
Rats don’t want black babies to be raised by whites. Much greater chance that they ignore the plantation when they grow up. Might even vote republican (gasp!).
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