Posted on 12/23/2021 6:16:45 AM PST by Red Badger
We are in the midst of an ongoing demographic crisis—not enough people are having enough babies to sustain the necessary population growth—and it looks like it's getting a whole lot worse:
US population growth at lowest rate in pandemic's 1st year U.S. population growth dipped to its lowest rate since the nation’s founding during the first year of the pandemic
U.S. population growth dipped to its lowest rate since the nation's founding during the first year of the pandemic as the coronavirus curtailed immigration, delayed pregnancies and killed hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents, according to figures released Tuesday.
The United States grew by only 0.1%, with only an additional 392,665 added to the U.S. population, from July 2020 to July 2021, according to population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Just in case you think that whole "since the nation's founding" rhetoric is no more than a bit of journalistic flourish, it's literally the position of the U.S. government:
According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Vintage 2021 national and state population estimates and components of change released today, the population of the United States grew in the past year by 392,665, or 0.1%, the lowest rate since the nation's founding.
This is not good for a whole lot of reasons, but the most pressing among them is that, if you don't have enough babies today, you're simply not going to have enough people years from now to prop up the society you've built: Not enough workers, not enough taxpayers, not enough men and women around to keep the engine of civilization running efficiently.
That sounds like a sort of cold nuts-and-bolts calculus. It kind of is. Having babies and raising children is doubtlessly first and foremost a deeply personal matter between a husband and a wife. But it also has profound societal implications beyond that of individual families. Ignoring these is folly.
Right now there's more or less enough people to keep things going. In twenty or thirty years? We may be looking at a significantly different picture.
“Back in the early 2000’s I made that same exact statement.”
Yes, back in 2000 many of us knew what financial games were afoot with regard to immigration. GWBush must have thought he had no choice but to join those pushing for immigration when he lost his attempts for any kind of real reform of social security.
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Wouldn’t a person think that after a sixty day lockdown there would be more pregnancy?
Look at the blizzards of ‘76 and ‘82. Bunch of rabbits they were.
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Of course, I agree.
I have suffered so much defeat and pain thus far in my life that
seeing my own offspring suffer through what I forsee ahead
would be too much for me to bear.
Neither I nor my little brother gave our parents any grandchildren -
for which I am convinced Mom resented us both for.
But she passed six years ago, Dad seven years ago.
And I would also NOT enjoy seeing them witness what has
become of the US. My Dad was a patrioic man - a World War 2
US combat Marine (South Pacific).
He would be heatbroken to see what he fought for come to this point.
You make some very good points, but in the area where we live, the primary issue is that people who have not been vaccinated are basically not allowed to work or go to any form of higher education. Young adults especially know that the shots have almost no value to them. It probably isn't like that in most parts of the country yet, but that is the problem right now in Western Washington. The manager at the KFC that I spoke to said they would take anyone who had been vaccinated and no one who had not.
The solution is very simple - if no easier than Prohibition - which is to Ban The Pill and Abortion. The normative role of women is to do what the are uniquely designed for, which is that of giving birth and raising children. And which is not supposed to be when you financially secure enough to have have or at most two in your 30’s, and raise them as rich kids, who today are increasingly isolated and who do not know how to form relationships and manage them and are overall sensitive to words. And thus are overly prone to cry injustice protest imagined or magnified offenses.
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