Posted on 02/10/2013 12:03:55 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Ever since it became less socially acceptable to argue openly that women—at least white, middle-class women—owe it to men to curtail our professional ambitions in favor of a life as our husbands' support staff, conservatives started to panic about declining birth rates. If women don't start making more babies, they dimly warn, the country is headed for catastrophe as the workplace empties out of workers and retirees suck up all the money and people stop caring about the future. (Because we can't care about the children we do have unless we have more of them, for some reason.) To save America, women, especially those aforementioned pesky middle-class, white women, are going to have to start having more babies at a younger age, the argument goes.
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Recently, immigration to the U.S. is declining and in the near future, anti-resistant bacteria is going to wipe out a significant portion of World’s population. (Just think anti-drug resistant TB)
Thank you Amanda for not procreating, you really are doing America a favor.. However please explain why Liberals always seem to situate abortion clinics in minority neighborhoods. Liberalism is the practice of nihilism.
She makes an awful lot of assumptions about women (and men).
No one has to end up as “support staff” if they don’t want to. That is a choice that two people make when they decide to procreate. It doesn’t HAVE to be the woman who becomes “support staff”. She just makes that assumption because appeasement to the status quo is all she knows.
Feminists are oddly adherred to the status quo I’ve found. On the whole they are not very imaginative or adventurous so they just assume no one else is.
Most of these immigrants are low-skilled with low-income potential. How are these types of workers going to pay for an ever-increasing silver-haired population? Answer — they cannot.
Hispanics, Muslims and blacks have high birth rates and are immigrating to the U.S. in droves. They will keep the U.S. population birthrate relatively stable. The problems is that these folks will not be adding but taking from the public treasury so the kind of taxpayer subsidized day-care-from-infancy that Ms Marcotte so values as the way to middle class white women’s ‘freedom’ from boring, career-stifling motherhood will likely no longer be sustainable.
I seriously doubt that she ever has to worry about getting bc pills.
I agree!!
“The US will not be declining in population anytime soon.”
No, not a population “decline”.
Rather, a “population replacement”.
America is literally being changed into an entirely different nation via demographics...
And the “America” of the replacements being born will bear little resemblance to the America of the Euros who are slowly, but surely, disappearing...
Chill Amanda I quit drinking so hooking up with you is not going to happen. Now go wash my shirt.
Actually, the birth rate is 1.958 for Black Americans (including black Hispanics), which is lower than France’s at 2.02.
Guilty.
Death panels perhaps????
The ironic thing is, opinions matter little. The side that has more people will win.
Being a mother is hard work, sad that the money needs of society makes it harder. Families are disappearing. Children are costly. Abortion and the pill beckon, like Captain Ahab, to what is perceived to be the good life. God’s increase and multiply are overcome. We beat God. Really?
This is changing. The birth rates are falling around the globe, which includes immigrants here and it also means that there are less to immigrate. Hispanic immigration is currently estimated to have stopped, and it would not be surprising if it reversed, because Mexico is actually growing faster than we are now, and probably will for several years at least.
If we depend upon immigration to keep our population stable, and Latinos do not come, then we will probably start importing from muslim countries.
There.
Fixed it.
“The US will not be declining in population anytime soon.”
The Jews of the northern kingdom didn’t have to worry either after the Assyrians conquered them because the Assyrians removed them and replaced them with their own people.
The long-lost, evil twin of Jeff Daniels?
Who is that guy?
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