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To: leftwingrightwingbrokenwing
"It is all a matter of people making their choices not to have as many children as in the past. If it makes them happy, why take the choice away from them?"

Certainly the culture of "me me me me me" has a part in the demographic collapse. But the US is also a "me" society, yet we have a much higher birthrate, even among those of european descent. I asked my daughter, who was going to school in France, why the young French are not having children. She said one big factor is a bad economy with poor economic opportunities brought on by socialism. She knew quite a few French kids with advanced degrees who were working part-time because that was all they could get. The French who do work are carrying a gigantic bureaucracy and welfare system on fewer and fewer shoulders. It is difficult to establish the economic basis for raising a family.

40 posted on 05/01/2005 10:33:43 AM PDT by ImpeachandRemove
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To: ImpeachandRemove

A great answer...but the problem is not moral relativism..but socialism..something I think is theft myself! It would be great if they would let go of the welfare state and have the right to make up their own minds what they would like to do with the money they earned. That is the reason why I would want to do away with socialism..not because of declining birth rates...but because of the belief that people have the right to do with what they please with what they earn. Let us cut down the welfare state to a food, clothing, shelther, health care, no choices on what they get, a bare bones matter, a safety net. Finally, we agree on something!

In Soviet Russia..one size fits all..OR ELSE!


42 posted on 05/01/2005 10:41:09 AM PDT by leftwingrightwingbrokenwing (vitriolic libertarian)
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