[ExTexasRedhead]

Just look at the US Congress; not a pair of cajones amongst all of them so this is no surprise.

[justa-hairyape]

Interesting. Fertility rates dropping. Death rates rising. Insanity levels rising. Many new diseases. Next up, aggressive cancer infections climb dramatically. Followed by stark raving madness no doubt.

[Chgogal]

Socialism = No babies.

[glasseye]

Could it be feminism?
Who would invest in these women?

[OldNewYork]

Sad, but we can make up the gap in happy ways.

[DJ Taylor]

Hmmmm, I doubt if young men and women started having less sex after 2007, so I wonder how much of that 600,000 shortfall is due to abortion?

[Feasor13]

Seriouisly, who can afford to have kids? Who can afford to be married with the tax burden the way it is? The government punishes responsible people. It’s either the dirt poor or the rich who can afford families.

[Paladin2]

0bama’s fault.

[faithhopecharity]

“The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. “
Benito Mussolini. ( import Moslems and you speed up your downfall ten times as fast)

[saintgermaine]

Just bring in more camel drivers, in time they will make up for the shortfall.

[BlackAdderess]

Nobody who is a responsible human, wants to bring babies into the world if their ability to provide for them could evaporate with the next paycheck. Most women of childbearing years live lives too precarious in this economy.

[faithhopecharity]

Yes. European civilization is going down down down —alas!
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/19014

[Salvation]

G. K. Chesterton

"Surplus population"

"SCROOGE is not only as modern as Gradgrind but more modern than Gradgrind. He belongs not only to the hard times of the middle of the nineteenth century, but to the harder times of the beginning of the twentieth century; the yet harder times in which we live. Many amiable sociologists will say, as he said, "Let them die and decrease the surplus population." The improved proposal is that they should die before they are born.

"It is notable also that Dickens gives the right reply; and that with a deadly directness worthy of a much older and more subtle controversionalist. The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population; or if he is not, how he knows he is not. That is the answer which the Spirit of Christmas gives to Scrooge."

~G.K. Chesterton: Introduction to A Christmas Carol. (1922)

[Covenantor]

The central point of Mark Steyn’s America Alone”, 2006

From wiki.....

Steyn attributes the forecast fall of the Western world to three factors:

Demographic decline, based on the observation that European nations have low birth rates while Muslim nations have higher birth rates. Specifically, in recent years the population of the developed world declined from about 30% of world population to around 20%, while the population of Muslim nations increased from about 15% to 20%....

[TomasUSMC]

All the while Planned Parenthood killed 900 every single day and the REPUBLICANS DID NOTHING.

[RFEngineer]

This what happens when you borrow extensively from the future. These taxpayers refuse to be born.

[Trod Upon]

I think part of it is there is really no longer any meaningful stigma attached to not wanting children, so now people who don’t actually like kids aren’t having them just because “it’s what you do.”

[Jack Hydrazine]

looks like we are headeded for a “Children of Men” except the disease in this case is collectivism.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2VT2apoX90o