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Posted on 03/19/2006 3:30:02 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
BERLIN: The number of children born in Germany last year fell to its lowest level since at least World War Two, data showed on Friday, putting the birth rate well below that required to maintain the current population.
The Federal Statistics Office estimated that between 680,000 and 690,000 children were born in Europe's largest economy last year, implying a birth rate of between 1.33 and 1.36 children per woman - one of the lowest rates in the European Union.
In 2004, some 706,000 children, or 1.36 per woman, were born in Germany, a rate which has only been surpassed twice since German re-unification in 1990, the Office added. It noted some 2.1 births per woman were needed to keep the population steady.
Although the birth rate was as low as 1.24 in 1994, the number of children has gone down for years, because the pool of women able to give birth has been shrinking steadily.
Domestic politics is awash with proposals to make Germany a more family-friendly place. Economists warn that unless the demographic trend improves fast, the economy will suffer and the country could be unable to meet its long-term liabilities.
Germany's welfare system, funded by contributions from those in work, has come under increasing strain in recent years as life expectancy has increased and the number of those paying in has fallen.
Your tribe is at risk too zarf
I hope you are going to help turn the tide.
;>)
sure like we did Rhodesian and South African expats who we asked to give up their power.
we are a forgetful and ungrateful bunch
some freepers would prefer Muslims here to Christians....crazy isn't it?
Preemptive surrender.
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Not if the West had the guts to keep the Muslims penned up in their own countries.
Only Poland is a country with fewer than 5,000 Muslims.
Europe says: "Who needs to have babies, when you can just import large numbers of Muslims to replace your population? And they will have all the babies a country could possibly need.
While the Germans may not want to admit that they have such statistics showing native-German births and non-German births...there is no doubt about a significance in the numbers. With Turks and other Arabs drawn mostly to the major cities...its the rural areas of Germany where a mostly German population still exists.
Just wait a little bit. I was in the Lithuanian immigration office in Vilnius last month. Had to wait my turn, there were 8 Pakistani's ahead of me. And they were clearly fresh off the plane. No joke...
and do you stop buying also ?
When a society becomes hedonistic, children are a nuisance. They cost money and cramp your style.
Germany has been on a steady glide path into oblivion. Economically they are done. Don't expect them to make any large scale turn around in that aspect either. They refuse to fundamentally change "how" they operate and embrace a "social-economy" where the state is near 48% of the GDP, massive subsidies, large elaborate social infrastructure takes care of the common man from cradle to grave. No true sweeping initiatives have been made to change anything since there is consensus within this society that this is the right way to go. They have bought into the idea of "socialism", a word that in Germany is not even negative in connotation. Economically they are - done, finished and history. They culminated in the 80s.
Culturally the Germans are secular and have become near nihilists. They don't care about anything except themselves and the true best way to describe the society is as "hedonistic". Abuse of social structures, no children, the political weaseling of Schroeder, someone like Fischer becoming the Secretary of State all are indicators of a "society" that is in decline. The Germans keep their streets clean, they keep their sidewalks clean and inner cities very tidy. But there is a societal cancer that is eating away at them. The problem is no lack of "children money (Kindergeld)". The problem is that churches today in Germany are empty. Only the old go to church. The new German evolved past that stupid idea. In WWII they were unmoral, today they are amoral. They know "what" they did was wrong, but not really "why"? They can't see the similarities between socialism and the NAZI's (National SOZIALISTICHE Deutsche Arbeiter Partei - NSDAP). Today the new German sees no reason for helping the people in Sudan, they revel in the Schadenfreude from Iraq, in the end, they will not be of much help with Iran. They think they are better than in WWII since they don't stuff people in gas chambers, but they watched as people were exterminated in the Balkans. Not until they were flooded with refugees did they see any reason to intervene. All these things are tied together. There is a grey overlapping zone where the philosophy behind religion spills into how the political institutions, criminal justice system, or even issues of defense are dealt with. How one sees God also defines how you see justice.
Theodore Roosevelt summed it up best -
"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."
The poison killing the German economy is also killing their society.
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