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2005-01-14 Europe

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Posted by tipper 2005-01-14 20:47|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I enjoy a riddle: Why Aren't Germans Having Babies?

Answer: Because most of the German adults are self-absorbed babies.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-14 10:15:48 PM|| 2005-01-14 10:15:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 In all truth, many, even most babies are accidents. But when the state insists on accountability for accidents, people try to avoid them. Germany's nanny attitude of what children *deserve*, and what is *required* of parents, makes children just too damned expensive for most people.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-14 11:16:35 PM|| 2005-01-14 11:16:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Germans aren't having babies for much the same reason that Germans take off on average three months of every year and fart around in school until they're into their thirties: it's damn hard work to raise a child.

Remember, the postmodern postchristian euro-paradise is all about me, not about caring for little whelps who cry and piss and demand to be fed at inconvenient times.

Posted by lex 2005-01-14 11:33:23 PM|| 2005-01-14 11:33:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 If the post-christian European world is about having kids only when you can take care of them, and the pre-post-christian American world is about teenage pregnancies instead, then I think I'll take the European world, thank you very much.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-01-14 11:39:29 PM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/] 2005-01-14 11:39:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 pre-post? nice try - ESL boy

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-14 11:56:13 PM|| 2005-01-14 11:56:13 PM|| Front Page Top

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