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2019-03-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

What Will The Consequences Be Of Our Plummeting Birth Rate?

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-28 03:48|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Consequences? Well, here's one consequence our gov't is standing by and doing virtually nothing about, in order to sustain the 'big gov't' ponzi scheme:

U.S. Projected to Add 1.5M Illegal Aliens to Population this Year

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-28 03:53|| 2019-03-28 03:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Fewer lefties would be nice.They tend to muck up things anyway.

Posted by Dale 2019-03-28 05:35|| 2019-03-28 05:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Was the country poor in the 1950s relative to the rest of the world?

Higher population density is often correlated with worse standards of living.

it's good for rent-seekers though.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-28 06:39|| 2019-03-28 06:39|| Front Page Top

#4 As with the last 'boom', the coming civil war will provide an incentive to reproduce. Survivors have a different perspective with less distractions from institutions that pervaded the pre-war society.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-28 07:35|| 2019-03-28 07:35|| Front Page Top

#5 People who are un- or underemployed and carrying heavy debt delay adding an additional expense. Once they trust that the jobs will be there and they reduce their debt, we’ll see more having babies.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-03-28 12:02|| 2019-03-28 12:02|| Front Page Top

#6 If economic rents rise faster than wages they'll still be just as unable to afford the additional expense of children.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-28 12:05|| 2019-03-28 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 You want a higher birthrate? Turn off the damn television!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-28 12:55|| 2019-03-28 12:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Why should a nation "want" a higher birthrate?

The best way to decide what the birthrate should be is leave it to parents...

Everything else smells rather marxian.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-28 14:27|| 2019-03-28 14:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Soy suppresses androgen (testosterone and estrogen). Soy is in everything.
Every culture that consumes large amounts of soy is having the same problem.

Get rid of soy, stop the vegan/vegetarian nonsense and you'll see the birthrates go back up.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-03-28 15:05|| 2019-03-28 15:05|| Front Page Top

#10 ....*cough* cell phones.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-28 21:24|| 2019-03-28 21:24|| Front Page Top

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