Posted on 07/29/2019 10:55:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I like it!
That’s actually pretty clever.
In the next 3 decades, most estimates are the world will peak at 9 billion, and then rapidly go into population decline, as soon China and later India join the ranks of countries with negative population growth rates. The question is what will happen in Africa, particularly sub-saharan Africa.
We are hearing this population alarmism from a variety of corners. It is all about increased immigration into the West and especially the US. The political, corporate, and media elites want the flow of cheap, inexhaustible labor to continue unabated. It is all about money and power even if it means transforming our societies into Third World hellholes.
The Germans have had such programs for decades, i.e., Kindergeld. The German state pays €194 Euros a month per firstborn and secondborn child, with the figure going up to €200 for a third child and €225 for the fourth.
India's fertility rate is 2.4 children born/woman (2018 est.), which is 81st in the world. It's annual population growth rate of 1.14% (2018 est.) is 94th in the world.
The US fertility rate is 1.87 children born/woman (2018 est.), which is 142nd in the world. It's annual population growth rate of 0.8% (2018 est.) is 130th in the world.
Africa is the continent with the highest rates of population growth. If I were in Europe, I would be very afraid.
The "labor" myth. The reality is that the migrants are indolent welfare parasites and troublemakers.
Maybe we can go live in Hungary
Ding! You want more kids? Get women to marry earlier. No really. It’s that simple. Unfortunately, education requirements in a modern economy and western culture have been pushing in the wrong direction. Women get married later now.....and as a result of waiting until it’s too late and their youth is gone, many don’t get married at all and have zero kids. This is a disaster for society - and for them ultimately.
There are other factors too, such as many young married couples putting off thinking about having children. And some put it off too late.
When are women most fertile? In their late teens and early 20s I would guess? Yet some women, especially if they are getting into professional careers, don’t even think about having children until in their 30s. And fertility has already started declining for many women by age 30, from what I hear.
Throw in a husband and maybe I’ll think about it. I have Hungarian relatives. They do make life interesting.
Their marriage prospects decline a good bit at 30 also.
Not surprisingly, women are most attractive to men when they are most fertile.
Abolish the welfare state. Replace it with parents getting a percentage of the taxes paid by each kid. Suddenly you provide an incentive to have lots of productive kids.
It shouldn't. Why should marriage have to wait until after college and after being settled in a career? Don't college kids share a dorm with roommates? Why couldn't a husband and wife attend college together?
Why is it a requirement to wait to get married until your work situation is good enough to buy a house? Prior generations married early and lived frugally until they got into better economic levels
Which is how illiterate Achmed and Isha (both unemployed, and generally unemployable) monetize their spawn of six to ten (on top of rent grants and other sundry benefits) to make a pretty good life for themselves at a level much better than they could ever hope for in their home country... while Michael and Michaela can't really afford to have more than one child if they want to keep their hard-earned middle class life style due to a crippling tax burden and high housing costs. Which are used to subsidize...go back to the top of this paragraph...
I didn’t say these programs work. Having lived 4 years in Germany and married to a German for 50 years, there are myriad reasons why ethnic Germans are not reproducing. Much of it has to do with an over-regulated, over-taxed society and the legacy of communism in the East. Despite the great economic prosperity of Germany as a country, wealth has not trickled down to the individual who sees it very difficult to change their station in life. As a result, Germans are more interested in themselves than the sacrifice necessary to raise a family.
Having lived 13 years in Europe in five different countries, I have seen the insidious consequences of the welfare state. It stifles the individual. People are on an endless treadmill to nowhere.
Oh, I wasn’t criticizing you or your comment as such. Just trying to point out the abject failure of a well-intentioned (heh!) gov’t welfare program. As they are prone to fail...
I agree with your further comments... over-taxed, over-regulated (and about to get worse with all that CO2 pseudo-religious foolishness); where’s the joy for starting/growing a family in that?
Depressing.
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