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Vivek Ramaswamy: A baby shortage threatens America's future while our leaders nap
2024-08-03
Mr. Ramaswamy only has two children thus far, but he and his wife are certainly still young enough to have a few more, and as a borderline billionaire he can certainly afford the nannies necessary when Mom is a busy surgeon...
[FoxNews] America's birth rate is now down to 1.62 births per woman. That's the lowest in history and well below replacement rate.
Just before the Covid shutdown, married women having three children was considered a marker of success, like having a stay-at-home wife. Watch the current situation turn around after Donald Trump is sworn into office.
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Posted by:Skidmark

#4  Science, engineering, and math are indeed immune. But scientists, engineers, and mathematicians are just as susceptible to fashions in thinking as any other humans.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-08-03 22:46  

#3  They practice DEI there as well.

I would have thought that science, engineering and math would be immune to DIE nonsense, being based on demonstrable physical realities and mathematics. Shows you what I know!
Posted by: SteveS   2024-08-03 22:29  

#2  A few people are willing and able to study science, engineering and math

They practice DEI there as well.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-08-03 12:27  

#1  We have this insane concept of "prolonged adolescence". We keep young people, I won't call them kids, in high school until they're 17 or 18 years old and tell them they are strictly forbidden from having sex or getting married at a time when they can think of little else. They are told they are not responsible enough but in truth they are treated like children and not allowed to be responsible. They can't get jobs to support babies if they did.

And what are they learning all these long years sitting in classes run by socialist, perverted school teachers? Absolutely nothing that will ever help them get a job. Corporations would prefer to have that work done in China anyway. Young adults who would be far better off learning a trade are told they must attend college where they will get four more years of irrelevant bullshit.

A few people are willing and able to study science, engineering and math but most study "liberal arts" which is worse than useless. They take on huge debts to do this. When they finally get out of college they will have no more marketable skills than they had in high school. At least then they can have sex and get married but they can't afford a place to live let alone support babies. By the time young women can afford a baby they are far past their prime child bearing years.

Then people act surprised when they learn about our declining birth rate. Amazing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-08-03 12:24  

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