Posted on 08/12/2005 7:06:43 PM PDT by Scythian
His mother must have dropped him on his head as a baby.
this IS satire, right?
End immigration.
We are overcrowded enough.
Conservatives need to have larger families liberals need to take his advice.
If this guy is an economist, he should no children are an asset, not a liability. The present value of a child born in the U.S. is about $750,000.
I don't have a problem with the immigration, if legal, but the U.S. will be destroying itself if it stops having children. If children are such a disruption, why was the U.S. so successful during the "Baby Boom" era?
Or it could be a partial birth abortion...
so wha t is the birthrate in Mexico?
The alternative is Europa moribunda.
They do. And they wonder why they get called commies and extremists.
bttt
A difference of "one notch" is a small difference of degree, and therefore not one of kind. Furthermore, the nature of a living thing does not change until it dies, even if it's a caterpillar. When a caterpillar has become a butterfly it reproduces, thereby making... more caterpillars. Cats make kittens, dogs puppies, and humans children, all reproducing "after their kind". It follows that if children differ from domesticated animals only by degree, not nature, all adults are also bestial.
So why, exactly, should anyone care what someone who, by his own necessarily implied admission, has nature of a domesticated animal thinks?
I agree with you about population & economics. How long does our country have to rely on disproven theories. I wonder if our lack of reproduction invites increased immigration by making it a necessity.
Foremost, an investment policy means a new approach to raising children. Our concern should be not just custodial care for the child nor merely satisfying the parents' desires. We would need to recognize that child rearing is an essential societal function... If we focused childhood (preschool) education on cooperation, self-control, respect for the rights of others, cleanliness, safety, plus appropriate speech and grammar, parents would not object.
A "new approach" which is societal, which it turns out means taking very young children away from the care and instruction of their parents on a regular basis in order to put them under the care and instruction of an institution. But less of the family and more of other stuff is the problem.
If he came on the thread to defend himself I'd guess here he'd say it's better than TV. But this would miss the point: the problem is parental abdication.
Cooperation, etc., is already pretty much what they teach in preschool. Morton doesn't like what we're getting, but he calls for more of the same. But what habits does he expect children to learn if you make their primary source of interaction their "peers", who are as untrained as they are, and at ever earlier ages?
Amen
bttt
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