Posted on 05/15/2015 2:51:58 AM PDT by SMGFan
You are so very right.
That would depend on where they go to college. There are a lot of really good schools out there that are under 5K per year. Also, kids from large families usually are home schooled ad have excellent work ethics.
Congratulations, you beat us, God has certainly blessed you and your wife.
Those precious children, too, are images and likenesses of God.
White and black and brown and bronze doesn’t matter. Except to skinheads and gangsta rappers.
Awww....there’s not a thing wrong with all those sons, but I wish they could add a girl to the mix.
So you’ve bought into the leftwing line about overpopulation, huh?
Being right in the middle of raising around 7 daughters and approx 1 son, I estimate the total dollar impact of a teenage girl on a home is probably about $250/month. A teen son’s drag on a home budget is about the same, but his consumption is in food and not woman accessories.
We shop second hand stores, thrift stores, and walk around the outside aisle of the grocery store looking for marked down items. We don’t have any expensive toys, and have not had TV for 13 years.
Everyone is happy and we hope to be debt free within 12 months.
Malthus would be proud of you
Do you know these children? Who are they?
If you had a fashionista son, you'd calculate differently. Not that he doesn't eat, too ...
Do you know these children? Who are they?
Such a self-aware son would last fewer than 2 minutes in our home. It is unthinkable.
I never expected to have a son with a hair curler and a straightener.
I have a friend who has 8 boys and they finally gave up.
It does if they are feral and I’m paying for them. Not that there are not white people on welfare, but....
And there's going to be a LOT more people on Welfare of ALL races in the next few years, as the entry-level and low-skill jobs are robotized. I fear there will be social disintegration in ALL groups to a degree we have never experienced in this hemisphere.
I’d rather have 50 Ben Carsons than a thousand Kardashians.
You are going for being the bigger person. I concede it. I am fed up with all this stuff that is going on.
It’s not a leftwing line, read the statistics. The world population since the 1940s has virtually quadrupled, from 2 billion in 1940 and now we are racing towards 8 billion today. The higher that number gets the faster the population expands. For example during Christs time the world population was 200 million, less that the population of the USA today. It took 1,800 years just to reach a billion. Today we add a billion in less than 10 years. Pretty soon we will be adding a billion every 8 then every 5 years. Where does it end? In most major cities real estate has tripled in cost, quadrupled in some cities like New york city in only the past 20 years. 20 years is nothing in time! 1994 I was paying $640 a month in rent for a one bedroom apartment in Queens NYC. Today the same place goes for $2500. Why? Because the world population is going into overdrive, exploding. This is why we got 3rd world nations flooding Europe, flooding the USA. This is why traffic gets worse and worse every year, why college degrees are pretty worthless when it comes to getting a job and why former rural areas are being developed further and further out. Where does it end? When we reach a world population of 20 billion? 30 billion? It’s not sustainable, eventually something is going to give. Remember, it’s not like it was 60 or 70 years ago, like I said we are living in a time where the population is going into overdrive where we are adding numbers in a few years that took forever to add in the past. So when I read about people have 15 or 20 kids and everybody is congratulating them, I say to myself “Why are they congratulating them? Are we on the precipice of human extinction or something?” “Be fruitful and multiply” may have been valid 2000 years ago when the population was 200 million and the lifespan of the average person was 30 years old, but today it’s insanity. Today there’s more homeless in New York city than there was during the Great depression, and many of those homeless have degrees, they aren’t bums, and some are even employed but getting housing today is virtually impossible because of the immense competition and that’s directly because of people like this couple who think “Oh there’s nothing wrong with flooding the planet with people”. Are you kidding me?
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