You can't fault him for trying.... with his new 24-year old gymnast girlfriend.
Posted on 11/30/2010 2:02:49 PM PST by kronos77
Russia's president devoted the largest part of his annual State of Russia speech to reversing Russia's population decline.
If Russian couples have a third child, they will get a baby bonus, better health care, and free land to build a house or dacha, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev promised in his annual State of Russia speech.
Political analysts were hoping to hear about missiles or democracy. Instead they got babies.
Twenty years ago, just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin ruled an empire with a population slightly larger than that of the United States. Today, Russia has less than half the population of the United States.
And Russia's population of 142 million people is aging fast, a sign of bigger drops ahead, President Medvedev said.
The president said Russians will have to increase birth rates to overcome the demographic ax blow of the 1990s. Due to the post-communist economic collapse, there may not be enough fertile age women for Russia to maintain its population size. Mr. Medvedev, the father of one child, said two will not do. It must be three.
Mr. Medvedev also called for a Russia without orphanages. He said Russian families should adopt Russian children.
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Communism spent 70+ years destroying the family, destroying trust in society, destroying religious faith, while promoting materialism above all else. And they think a proclamation from the President and some tax breaks are going to fix the problem of generational suicide?
Let’s talk again in 2050.
You can't fault him for trying.... with his new 24-year old gymnast girlfriend.
Meanwhile, Western civilization is birth controlling, aborting, and immigrating itself out of existence.
I may not be a fan of Mr. Putin’s but he is spot on right about this subject.
I’ve often wondered why Russia and other European countries with demographic problems don’t recruit immigrants from Latin American countries.
Seems like they’d assimilate a lot easier than Muslims.
In fact, we’ve got 10 to 12M illegal ones here that Russia can have free. We’ll pay the shipping and even throw in support for their first year.
Seriously, why isn’t anybody looking at this possibility?
Maybe because nobody, including Russians, wants to live in Russia?
I suppose their favorite drink will be a 'Black Russian'...ha ha...get it...Black Russian?
Geldings need not apply. Hillary had him fixed...
Ha. It is the Muslim Russkies who will take up Medvedev’s offer and have 3 + kids, gaining free healthcare, free land, etc.
The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.
It's Medvedev.
Send him our illegal aliens. And Detroit.
People who have no hope, don’t want children to be born into a terrible society. This was the original reason Russia’s birth rate dropped and is probably the reason it is still dropping.
and San Francisco
San Francisco coupling does not produce children.
So? Just another good reason to get rid of them.
During those 20 years (and the 20 before it), the U.S. has had an explosion of unchecked third-world immigration, legal and illegal.
Which differs from the United States...how?
The USSR is what happens when a Fourth World country has access to unlimited supplies of vodka.
I’ve often wondered why Russia and other European countries with demographic problems don’t recruit immigrants from Latin American countries.
Seems like they’d assimilate a lot easier than Muslims.
I need to research this further, but somewhere I just read that Hamas and Hezbollah had something like 20,000 Muslims in Venezuela and Brazil.
The Muslims are infiltrating everywhere it seems.
No communists and no babushkas. Those are my two bugaboos.
If Russia is willing to pay my airfare I’d be willing to offer my services.........
I,for one,find Eastern European women distinctly unappealing.I'm not sure why...I think it's that Slavic round face.
And yes...Eastern European women very probably find *me* unappealing too so it works both ways.
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