Without Babies, Can Japan Survive?

The New York Times ^ | December 15, 2012 | ALEXANDRA HARNEY

[JCBreckenridge]

I offered my solution. Actually cut government.

[JCBreckenridge]

Meh, he probably said, “hey babybee, look at the size of my EBT”.

He’s already on record saying that he wants the government to support his wife.

[GOPJ]

Churchill once noted that the most productive countries were Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Churchill would be considered a racist today...

[BobL]

“I offered my solution. Actually cut government.”

It would help, but probably not enough. People don’t pay all that much in taxes now, particularly if they have kids. Women will still be tempted by the big bucks to put off kids (i.e., not have many, if any) if the size of government could be cut.

But I guess we’re at a stalemate - even most older FReepers don’t want government cut if it means less goodies for them (i.e., SS and Medicare), and Dems don’t want it cut at all. On the other hand, our society is nowhere near the point of accepting that women either have to be dragged out of the workplace to have kids, or paid sufficiently to have kids.

So we watch our society crumble before our eyes, and our kids and grandkids will pay the ultimate price...