Posted on 05/23/2010 4:27:15 PM PDT by C19fan
Germany is shrinking — and fast. New figures released on May 17 show the birth rate in Europe's biggest economy has plummeted to a historic low, dropping to a level not seen since 1946. As demographers warn of the consequences of not making enough babies to replace and support an ageing population, the latest figures have triggered a bout of national soul-searching and cast a harsh light on Chancellor Angela Merkel's family policies.
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FAMILIES, not the government. And normally this was done by younger family members who were currently enjoying economic, concrete, and intellectual capital that had been amassed by the now-elderly family members. The house was owned free and clear (long since paid for, if not actually built by hand) by the now-elderly, the many acres of farmland and pasture had already been cleared and made productive by the now-elderly, the wealth of knowledge and experience re how to maximize production had been passed on by the now-elderly to the younger generation, giving the younger generation sufficient resources to spend time and money/goods caring for the elderly. The elderly had pre-paid for their own old-age care.
Any German Freepers out there? You need to get busy! ;-)
Note that many of us do not regard the current culture of Islamic societies as something we'd like our own societies to resemble. A teeming population is a huge cultural and political burden, and tends to promote ideologies which appeal to frustrated young adults who see no realistic hope of a bright future. The ethnically native populations of Western societies may have low birth rates, but precious few of the children we do have are susceptible to suggestions that blowing themselves up for Allah (or for anything else) would be their best course of action.
The days of endless frontiers of habitable, arable land, providing a bright future for as many fledgling adults as the previous generation could churn out, are long gone and not coming back. And anytime the rate of population growth outpaces the rate of economic growth, big trouble lies ahead.
LOLOLOL!!
I once saw the following on a T-shirt in California:
Sex - give until you’re tired.
“Note that many of us do not regard the current culture of Islamic societies as something we’d like our own societies to resemble. “
I used them as an example, and you FULL WELL know that.
Anyway feel free to push your “Death to West” agenda (by depopulating us while our enemies do not), but I don’t have to respond to it.
And illegal alien Mexicans and Central Americans.
The 12 million illegals in the US is a lie and a joke. There's more like 20 to 30 million. Not to mention all the other millions that were already here.
Between the treasonous, leftist, Dim Dhim America haters, the so called “main stream media”, Hollywood and the universities, America and freedom is disappearing right under our feet.
Illegal aliens may be on the minds of everyone now, but it’s the Muslims who will control this country and not the Mexicans or South Americans ... see the Demographics video ...
So kindly show me an example of a society that currently has rapid population growth, and is currently politically and economically stable and not a hotbed of terrorism or communist insurgency.
They are only worried about not enough kids to pay off banksters debts. Much like the Kaiser used to worry about having enough males to kill off on battle fields for what ever elitist notions he had. Humans as resource digits. Integers. Statistics.
“So kindly show me an example of a society that currently has rapid population growth, and is currently politically and economically stable and not a hotbed of terrorism or communist insurgency.”
Name a country that has given in to the SOCIAL ENGINEERING of feminism that IS NOT going through a population crash - and cheating by allowing unfriendly immigrants doesn’t count.
I don’t know...maybe it’s just because I have kids and I don’t want to them have to live in a country and a world overrun with people that are basically barbarian - which HAS TO HAPPEN unless DRASTIC steps are taken (either make more babies here, or delete lots of theirs).
And I am willing to do what is necessary to reverse the past social engineering...even if it looks like sacrificing conservative values.
Add to this a profound pessimism resulting from the two wars, and the traditional passivity of the Germans. Voluntarism, which is in the American DNA, is alien to the Germans, who leave politics to the professionals.
Agreed. Muslims are the real threat here. Not Mexicans.
More rubbish about how this are not enough “social services.”
German culture now has ingested socialism, materialism, PC guilt, white angst and multiculteralism. The message is - why should there be a next generation?
“I’m out of tears after Nov 2008.”
You and me both.
When will they realize that the Muslims are taking over and that they must have children to offset that?
Well, after you deduct the illegal and/or unfriendly immigrants, the U.S. population is stable, not “crashing”. And a stable population works just fine until the pyramid schemes of socialism are introduced, including the pyramid scheme of promising all sorts of old-age benefits on the assumption that a greatly increased population of younger people will fund it when payout time arrives.
New Zealand is an example of a country with stable population — birth rate is at perfect replacement level of 2.1 per woman (obviously representing high rates of conraceptive use), and immigration rates are relatively low, and significantly offset by emigration rates (mainly to Australia and the UK). It is economically, politically, and socially stable.
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