We could.
We could also tell the truth and say that because of an era of perception that the price of houses would always increase 20% a year, and that the more houses you bought the richer you would be, we ended up with a lot more houses than occupants.
Please go to the full length article posted online at First Things Magazine and read the whole thing. This is an important article which touches on the financial meltdown both nationally and what is happening in California, on the contentious gay marriage issue, and the culture wars. Demography is destiny.
The next generation can then kill off the old generation, which thought it was peachy keen to allow abortion, thus subtracting 50+ million taxpayers from the population. Poetic justice.
I get emails from GreenWatchAmerica. They are good and mostly concentrate on man-made global warming. They also sent me an e-mail about a movie, Demographic Winter:
http://www.demographicwinter.com/index.html
I’ve been hit with propaganda for years (decades) about the danger of overpopulation. The fear of overpopulation directly supports such policies as abortion, homosexuality, and euthanasia. It even harmonizes with global warming and anti-capitalism.
What if the left has it backwards? It would hardly be the first time. What if a lack of children (in the US and Europe) is the problem? Even if one isn’t ready for a totally apocalyptic view, it may be worthwhile to familiarize oneself with the facts and the implications.
I don’t think social conservatives should fear the authors demographic alarms; it is the uber-liberals who are not “breeding” as much, while family size among many social conservative groups is either not declining or growing. For instance, if the Orthodox” Jews keep their current family size patterns, I think they stand a good chance of becoming the “mainstream” Jewish sect in America.
This lends support to one of my wacko ideas: That only the fathers in intact, two-parent famiies (with children) should be allowed to vote. Result: No Jimmy Carter, no Clinton, no Soetoro. And probably no Bushes, no Dole, and no McCain.
Uh, okay...