Fear of Too Many Babies is Hard to Bear - Mark Steyn

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | October 22, 2006 | Mark Steyn

[ClaireSolt]

Kansas is the same as you describe. I know I asked my close Dutch friend, and she said they think losing population is a good thing, being the most densely populated country in the world. In her rural area, farmland is 60,000/acre and many farmers look to emmigrating where they can actually get some land to work.

[Spirochete]

The only thing of note that's unsustainable are liberals poking their nose into business not their own. Guess that's why God made fists as vehicles of learning.

Is there a way to bookmark individual postings?

[kellynla]

300 million less 30 million illegals.

[linda_22003]

"More conservative babies"

I've never heard a baby express its political opinions either way. Their voting is usually confined to issues of taking food in or putting food back out.

[Two-Bits]

Liberals keep pushing for abortion and birth control. As usual, they miss the big picture. At any rate, liberalism is headed for demographic extinction.

Except when it comes down to crack and welfare moms than they should be able to have all the children they "want".

[elhombrelibre]

When you see the effects of the “overpopulation population scare” (e.g., whole nations of people disappearing in Europe), think of the harm that pseudo science or global warming will cause. Forty years ago Liberals crackpots were propagating a fear of a coming Ice Age. The baleful effects of Liberalism are hard to underestimate. Some day we’ll wonder how anyone could have been so gullible as to believe that not having enough progeny to sustain a country for the future was a wise social policy or a public service. This crackpot theory certainly received a welcome audience when it combined with the selfishness of the “Me” generation. And it really explains the pacifism of the non-religious Europeans. If there is no afterlife, if you’ve no offspring to defend, if your nation is dying out, why aggressively defend your way of life? You could get killed. And since this is all there is, why bother fighting anyone. Just eek out your life as well as you can.

[Old Professer]

We all know that couple is both allegorical and apocryphal; they were chosen simply by an imputed time frame.

[gridlock]

Mexicans and Latinos are not assimilating anymore !

We have stopped assimilating them, but that does not mean that we could not if we put proper policies in place, including civics education for all immigrants, language requirements, and monolingual instruction and services.

We have made it too easy for them to not assimilate.

But the Muslims cannot be assimilate no matter what we do. In this, they are very different and very undesirable.

[Dog Gone]

I had to find this without your help. GET WITH THE PROGRAM! You have your Steyn Ping duties to perform!

:-)

[Incorrigible]

Bump

[redgolum]

We are going to have a population bomb. Shortly, we are going to have the same number of non working retirees taking SS benefits as we have workers paying into the system.

The coming cash crunch of SS is going to bring a whole new meaning to generational conflict.

[redgolum]

Demographics is also having an impact on our domestic politics.

Kind of like the "Frekonomics" book, but with politics. We are moving more conservative, but as the DU funnies show, it is really scaring the left.

[Politicalmom]

Right click on the black post number. Choose "Bookmark this link".

[tutstar]

read later

[Mamzelle]

Eeww! Eeew! You should have issued a barf elert for that last bumper sticker--Liberty and Justice as lesbians, indeed!

[Alouette]

I am a "population bomb" all by myself.

9 kids, 17 grandkids (& still counting)

But of the last 5, only one is in the U.S. The others are Canadian, Russian and Israeli.

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[Hydroshock]

I have two daughters and hope for one or two more kids.

[narses]

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If you want on (or off) this Catholic and Pro-Life ping list, let me know!

[Taxman]

I have just begun reading Steyn's book. It is a magnificient read, and, if he is correct, Western Civilization is in deep KimChi.

Moslems (I refuse! to use the word "Muslim") are breeders, and they are breeding terrorists faster than Western Civilization can civilize (or kill) them.

I highly recommend his book and commend him for writing it and Regnery for publishing it.

Pick up a copy of "America Alone; The End of the World as We Know It" and pay attention to what he says. It is that important.

[Gradient Vector]

While I think a growing population is a problem abortion isn't a solution, its murder. If we all want to live in nice houses with backyards we can't keep growing forever.

Cut welfare, and stop all illegal immigration and we'll be at less than 2 per mother.