Posted on 07/01/2020 5:47:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How can America be great in the future with fewer babies every year? In the long term, no way, José. The average number of kids per U.S. woman has dropped from 2.12 in 2007 to 1.71 in 2019, the lowest ever. In the case of whites, it's 1.61. This baby deficit continues to grow, and with it, America's greatness potential shrinks. The U.S. share of world births is one third less than in 1960. This looks good only compared to Europe, where the decline is one half less.
Immigrants haven't provided a sufficient solution to the social undermining that entails too-low birth rates in any developed nation, even in the United States, a nation that still has worldwide comparative advantages to attract high-skilled workers from other countries, with its buoyant economy, high-tech industries, limited welfare state, and powerful cultural draw.
Fewer children have many consequences. Accelerated social aging is one of them. Half of Americans in 2020 were 38 years old or younger, a median age that is 10 years higher than in 1970. Two factors account for this aging: fewer children and a longer life expectancy. By far, the first of the two is the more important contributor. Aged societies, non-dynamic by essence, face a terrible dilemma: either they transfer an increasing share of wealth created by a shrinking working population to the elderly, or the growing ranks of pensioners are poorer and with deteriorating health care. Fewer children also contribute to another problem: loneliness. Fifty years ago, 5% of Americans lived alone. Now, 11% do.
Internationally, a shrinking demographic weight endangers America's leadership. In 1900, Europe (including Russia) had 25% of the world population; now that that is less than 10%, it is an increasingly marginal geopolitical player. China has more than four times as many working-age people
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Nope, but oh well.
It would be known to me before deciding.
I wouldn’t need one in Iceland, and I’m willing
to bet I could acquire one in Costa Rica. (Whether legal or not)
Feminism is winning.
All that stuff still goes on in Islamic societies, they just do a better job of keeping it hush-hush.
The quote I found the other day, says it all:
Hard Times make Good Men
Good Men make Good Times
Good Times make Weak Men
Weak Men make Hard Times
(and the cycle begins all over again)
I Understand. And so did Christians. But sending evil to the margins is a good thing
Poland makes the most sense for me, as I am very familiar with their History and Culture, and for Americans, it’s a relatively cheap place to live. Now the language...that’s a challenge, but the good news is plenty of people in the big cities speak English.
I’ve been looking at the Gdansk/Sopot area, they have some decent beaches there.
Bunk beds, hand me down clothing, sewing clothing when it got holes in it. When was the last time anyone darned socks? Left-overs for dinner. People could afford to have more children if they wanted to. People just don’t want to do without their stuff.
Yeah, will maybe it’s because we not only have to support our own families, we have to support so many others too via massive taxes that pay for other people who don’t contribute to the tax base to have as many children as they wish.
Had two, wanted four, husband said we can’t afford it (he was right) and that was the end of it. Regret it to this day...
The good part about Iceland is it’s difficult to become a citizen.
The bad part is Winter is a bit long and dark.
You have to work and live there for 7 years, and speak the language fluently.
The language is very difficult, so no third world retards are immigrating.
This will probably get ruined too, for diversity sake and all.
Maybe Costa Rica is better.
Hopefully Poland remains as they are.
While that doesn’t portend well for the future, I can’t blame someone for not wanting to bring children into this rapidly declining country.
I think at least Duda should be re-elected, his opponent is fairly liberal, but at least even the “liberals” in Poland aren’t that moonbatty.
A friend’s college dropout son got a seasonal job with UPS. I told him that if he stuck around and got into management or driving, that he could actually support a family with a UPS job.
I was informed by the other adults that young men no longer think that way, that two income families were the norm, so getting a decent paying job with benefits was not a goal.
Hard to raise a family with that attitude.
... or at least didn't do their part to maintain it.
Nice bar line, if I was (a lot) younger. "Let's do our part to Keep America Great!"
UPS drivers are union and make solid bank & benefits.
No. They need consumers for the cheap Chinese stuff sold by Walmart. Plus, dispense a little welfare to the immigrants and viola...a self perpetuating consumer economy!
UPS driver — the cream of local P&D jobs.
Not for our guests from South of the border. They’re doing great.
Of course women are told that making a career is more important then sharing a life and raising a family. Isn’t indoctrination great?
Look at the majority of rioters, women.
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