The rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago produced family sizes far in excess of replacement numbers and, more recently, with the advent of western medicine, has now caused a population overhang which, even now, is still growing and will continue for at least another decade or two. At the same time, however, the populations of industrialised societies, which had long since stabilised, are now declining because parents are now voluntarily deciding to have fewer children than the necessary 2.2 per family.[snip]
Almost everybody is aware of the first phenomenon. Very few are aware of the second -- or, at least, they are frightened to talk about it. Occasionally, liberal politicians will mention the second and use it as the reason why western nations should allow in more young energetic people from Africa, Asia and South America so that their future earnings can pay for the health care and state pensions of the swelling numbers of the indigenous old people in the western countries during the next two or three decades.
This, of course, is a very silly argument. Whether the numbers of immigrants, both legal and illegal, into western countries will rise moderately or excessively (that is, at greater rates than the numbers of jobs we can provide) is beside the point. When they have largely replaced or merged into the existing stock -- which is inevitable -- the evidence strongly suggests that they, too, will produce smaller-than-replacement family sizes. They will also be committing suicide as we are today.
Selfish little b-stards, aikn't we?
Maybe a bonus of US$15,000,000 per live birth, plus, of course, outlawing dcontraception and foetocide (AKA abortion), will get these non-producing baby-factories on line before it is too late.
I don't think that giving out "Mother of The Reich" badges, or exhorting them that the glory of France is in jeopardy becaues there are not going to be enough Frnchmen, or that the white Russians are about to become a minority in the USSR, etc. will be enough to get these over-educated but under-patriotic women to start being altruistic (all-true-istic = sacrificing all one's chances of pleasure in life).
The Taliban goit it right, didn't they?
That's what education does to people: It makes them selfish. It gives them ideas bout pleasures other than stretching their birth canals.
\brad mccormick=
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