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Why paying women to have more babies won’t work
The Economist ^ | 05/23/2024

Posted on 05/23/2024 8:44:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/23/2024 8:44:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Religion is the only answer. There’s a lot of Muslims in Paris. So that will resolve the issue of demographics in France.


2 posted on 05/23/2024 8:50:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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high skilled immigration.....well I guess that idea is moot.


3 posted on 05/23/2024 8:52:01 PM PDT by cherry
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“Why paying women to have more babies won’t work”

Seems to me that since the result of giving women career opportunities was a PLUNGING birthrate, the solution to the problem is quite simple.

(sorry gals, but remember you’ll lose too if the country goes down the drain)


4 posted on 05/23/2024 8:53:50 PM PDT by BobL
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“Why paying women to have more babies won’t work”

Never heard if Welfare mothers ...


5 posted on 05/23/2024 8:54:26 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: MinorityRepublican

That and the end of socialism, which was enacted for the exact purpose of population elimination.


6 posted on 05/23/2024 9:08:29 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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Was gonna say. We’re already there.


7 posted on 05/23/2024 9:13:15 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Y’all know we’d have more babies, if the laws were
more equatable.
Guys getting economically and emotionally raped by women in the courts doesn’t go over well.
I used to work with a guy that said he’d get married and a few years later give a house to his wife and her “new boyfriend,
Divorce should be more difficult!
Full disclosure;My mother had 4 husbands. I’ve seen how women break homes.
I’ve been married nearly 47 years to the same woman.


8 posted on 05/23/2024 9:14:35 PM PDT by rellic
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Doomsayers such as Elon Musk warn that these shifts threaten civilisation itself. That is ridiculous

There's no rule or law that says civilization must be permanent. Worldwide civilizational collapse has already occurred four times in the past 5,000 years (Mesopotamian, Minoan, Assyrian, and Roman collapse). It took 1,400 years to fully recover from the collapse of the Roman Empire.

9 posted on 05/23/2024 9:17:34 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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Better to eviscerate the Rats’ abortion evangelism that’s poisonous to the natural gift of motherhood.

#ing Rats


10 posted on 05/23/2024 9:31:34 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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Sorry but the catostrophic genetic losses in Russia, Western Europe and Japan from 1914-1945 can never be replaced. From 1960 on widespread effective birth control and abortion further decimated the population. In China bizarre “one child only” brutal policies have been a demographic debacle.


11 posted on 05/23/2024 9:32:29 PM PDT by allendale
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It took 1,400 years to fully recover from the collapse of the Roman Empire.

More like 1,000 years. The Spaniards and the Portuguese colonized the New World after the Reconquista.

12 posted on 05/23/2024 9:34:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: cherry
high skilled immigration.....well I guess that idea is moot.

I don't know what you mean by that, but I oppose "high skilled immigration."

Low-skilled immigrants compete with our native born working class, depressing their wages.

High-skilled immigrants compete with our native born college grads, depressing their wages.

We don't need IT workers from India, or nurses from the Caribbean, or doctors from wherever. We need to prioritize American students in STEM college classes and STEM fields once they graduate.

13 posted on 05/23/2024 9:35:21 PM PDT by Angelino97
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Whatta laff

“The Economist” - a snooty UK EuroSocialist claptrap rag - used to rail about “overpopulation” back 30 years ago, wringing their hands about what to do, what to do when we’re all crowded into tiny teeming tenements.

They said women going into the workforce and delaying children would “save the planet”.

Now they say it’s a problem but nothing you can do about it?

They caused the problem with their misanthropic nonsense.

Why listen to them on the flip side?


14 posted on 05/23/2024 9:42:12 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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“We need to prioritize American students in STEM college classes and STEM fields once they graduate”

We’d love to but the US schools are full of bozos from India, China, Latin America, the Caribbean and of course Africa.

And they’re all “Protected Classes”...unlike the American kids who get the cold shoulder from the anti-American admissions office (DEI forever!).


15 posted on 05/23/2024 9:44:40 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: SeekAndFind

Direct subsidies would encourage the wrong people to have children for the wrong reasons.

A better answer would be to restrict immigration. This would put upward pressure on wages and downward pressure on housing, which together would encourage families and children. There was once a time when people could support a family with one income, and still afford to buy a home.


16 posted on 05/23/2024 9:45:39 PM PDT by marron
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Lyndon Baines Johnson disproved this thesis when he destroyed the black family unit.


17 posted on 05/23/2024 9:47:59 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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I can think easily of two dozen professional women, all married/heterosexual partners, and there is a total of eight children out of those 24 women. Two of those women have two children each. The rest have a single child or none.


18 posted on 05/23/2024 10:02:15 PM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: Angelino97

If I were American, I’d be in favor of a total immigration ban- at least for the coming years.

Maybe a better immigration law could be devised during this immigration pause. Or immigration to the US could be suspended indefinitely.

America could simply say to the rest of the world: „sorry, we are full. No more immigration.“

But of course I, as an alien, have no right to interfere in America’s affairs - am just dreaming.🙁

P.S.: thank you very much for your kind words in the other thread😀


19 posted on 05/23/2024 10:08:01 PM PDT by Menes
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Low fertility, as well as high abortion rates, and bad mating and parenting choices, can be fixed for free: give back the return on investment for raising prosperous children to the rightful recipients. Give parents all the socialist security related deductions from their children’s future paychecks. That is functionally how it worked throughout most of history, and still does in most of the world.


20 posted on 05/23/2024 10:20:39 PM PDT by Reeses
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