Regards,
Posted on 06/14/2025 1:33:18 AM PDT by sushiman
OMUTA, Fukuoka -- A couple with 11 children whose household goes through 50 kilograms of rice per month are feeling the pinch of soaring rice prices, but continue to support their family with both of them working, while the older siblings help care for the younger ones, creating a lively atmosphere at their home in this southwestern Japan city.
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Wonderful , one wonders why the government does not help because the birth rate of Japan is less than population replacement.
There were many hard working large families here.
But the more you give people that less they want to work and the more free stuff they want.
Hmmm...could they offer a subsidy like for food only after a certain number of children are born in the family [and as long as the family stays together]?
That would send a couple clear messages...
11 kids. Two jobs. I know what they do on their spare time. Gotta be a lot of quickies.
Japan needs many more such families
Regards,
Would help out the family, economically, and maybe even help stimulate Japan's overall stagnant birth-rate.
Regards,
All married couples with children learn this superpower ;)
Are they Catholic?
“If I were a rich man I’d help support them ! The government misers won’t help them that’s for sure . God Bless ‘em !”
I think a handful of us sending them $1000 a month (total) will take care of their rice needs, and I suspect many of us have kids who would be better off not receiving quite as much in inheritance (which is where the money ultimately comes from).
“Wonderful , one wonders why the government does not help because the birth rate of Japan is less than population replacement.”
No country has found that formula yet - because it involves making some tough choices: Either government literally PAY WOMEN to have kids, so they’re not tempted to work instead, or go back to the 1950s, where options for working women was very limited. Right now, working is VERY TEMPTING for most women, to the point of crowding-out raising a family for enough of them.
Women’s lib was started and financed by Industrialists to “increase the labor pool” (sound familiar?) and it has certainly done that - although at the expense of very possibly ending civilized society and going back to the Dark Ages.
Eighty years ago Prisoner of War Camp Fukuoka 17 was the site of my father’s final incarceration on Japanese soil.
While the local Japanese at the time may have been planting seeds of anticipated victors’ profligacy, the camp’s population count was net ever downward. The POW population hovered around 1700 men, despite the influxes. My dad called his experiences with “[Uncle] Nippon” a “meat grinder.”
When smoke from the largest ammo dump explosion ever (they thought) that had just deeply shaken their world rose from across the bay, it set in motion their opportunity to overpower fleeing, home-oriented local guards to quickly control the camp.
Few guards were killed with guns or knives. Several prisoners’ extremely motivated bare hands pulling in opposite directions served adequately for the perceived needs of the moment.
So does the US.
RIP. brave hero. Thank you for your father’s story.
Can't understand how that happens. Here's a crazy idea, maybe use some protection or at the very least do the rhythm method. Why is it everyone else's job to support them? Aren't you supporting more than enough US citizens and illegals?
For a family of 4 in most states, the max. income limit to be eligible for SNAP is $60k/yr and the government thinks it takes $1400/mo to feed them along with free phones, internet, discounted utilites, etc. That's just SNAP, not all the million other government freebie programs that include housing and medical. This household has never seen a 60k income and we manage just fine. This household has always only spent 1/3 of what the government thinks groceries cost and we eat just fine. We also pay for our housing, medical, phones, internet, utilities, etc. It is ridiculous our garbage is picked up 4 times a month and each pick up costs $25 which is likely more than the stuff in the trash can originally cost to begin with. Of course, all the freebies are fed tax free so that's another benefit. Someone please tell me why SNAP doesn't deduct the 360 free breakfasts and lunches students get every year and then the weekend food boxes? Then there is the free summer lunches for aged 0-21. That smells highly of double dipping. Then there are as many food pantry visits as they wish, and churches and other charities. What's that, triple dipping into our tax dollars? After property taxes, there isn't much left if any. But go ahead, it isn't my say, and support a family in Japan so they can have rice. Wow, what a derogatory headline.
Work was dramatically less productive a couple centuries ago and it took a large proportion of overall available human labor just to produce enough food. Yet people routinely had large families. Now agricultural workers are down to like 3% of the labor pool, yet people imagine they "can't afford children." That's a lie, and deserves to be mocked. It's simply a matter of priorities.
Indeed.
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