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W's fault.
I’m more interested in knowing why Germans do not want families anymore?
I would firstly speculate that it is because both adults have to work to support themselves adequately due to a high taxation rate. It takes time and effort to bear and rear children correctly, so families with one child predominate. Combine that with the propaganda about the environment and there is additional cultural pressure to have one-child families.
Socialism and environmentalism look like the culprits to me. The same situation holds true for other nations where socialism and the enviromental craze have taken root.
Pinging Mark Steyn.
Helloooooo!!! "Supporting an aging population" isn't a reason people should be having babies. Human society isn't supposed to be a pyramid scheme. The aged population should have worked hard and made large contributions to their society's physical and intellectual capital, sufficient to support themselves in their old age, and preferably with surplus to enhance the lives of the younger generations as well.
The first full generation of Germans to spend their lives as wards of a socialist welfare state are now hitting what they imagine should be retirement-at-leisure age. It takes some serious audacity for them (and others purporting to speak on their behalf) to complain that the cash-strapped, tax-crushed current generation of young adults is failing to do their patriotic duty of making enough babies to support the elderly. The current elderly generation is the one that allowed the pyramid scheme of socialism to take hold in the first place, and they sure aren't offering to give up their mountain of government-guaranteed old age benefits so that the younger generation can afford to have more children.
Bingo.
See the following from another post of mine...
That evil and oppressive governmental idealogy of Islam and the way of implementing it by Sharia law is already making inroads right here in this country the good ole USA. Were about to see a takeover of the U.S. by the evil and oppressive idealogy of the government of Islam (that is aiming for world-wide conquest and has stated that the U.S. is *on its list* to take over...)
And for those people who need some additional facts about what the evil and oppressive governmental idealogy of Islam is doing, look at some of the following.
Theres no question about it... the enemy is *Islam* itself and the evil and oppressive and false idealogy that it perpetrates. Some say the problem is fascism (instead of the basic oppressive governmental idealogy of Islam, itself). But, that is to engage in political correctness and nothing more... and sidetracks people from the *true enemy* in this war.
In one generation well see, right here in the United States that Islam is the enemy and not fascism...
Muslim Demographics...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
and also, this...
Islam: What the West Needs to Know - FULL LENGTH ENGLISH VERSION
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-871902797772997781
and then, looking at this...
The Third Jihad (video - abridged version of film)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2271522/posts
This is the allowance of false gods to take over this nation because of the ignorance of the people of the land in regards to the true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob...
And so, we see that were going to have the false god of Islam ruling over the USA and running the USA in just one generation from now.
In a classic case of confusing cause and effect, I give you the following text from a hotlink in the article: “See why the recssion is causing women to have fewer kids.”
There are other doozies in the article, like blaming the quality of government child care. As if civil society has always had government child care, but the quality of it has just now declined to the point where it is impacting the birth rate.
Any German Freepers out there? You need to get busy! ;-)
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?
When will they realize that the Muslims are taking over and that they must have children to offset that?