Posted on 04/08/2020 11:05:11 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
The pro-family policies pursued by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s government as an alternative to mass immigration are reaping dividends, with births up 9.4 per cent year on year.
Eduard von Habsburg, the Central European country’s ambassador to the Holy See — and great-great-grandson of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary — reported that the “much-ridiculed” policies were also accompanied by a near-100 per cent increase in marriages and the number of children per woman rising to an average of 1.6.
“In Hungary, the population has been decreasing since 1981,” said Katalin Novák, Hungary’s State Secretary for Family, Youth, and International Affairs, in exclusive comments to Breitbart London explaining the enormity of the turnaround her government has achieved.
“In 2010, when [Orbán’s Fidesz party] won the elections with a two-thirds majority after eight years of socialist, anti-work, anti-economy, and anti-family governance, our country was at the brink of collapse,” she recalled, citing “austerity packages and the dismantling of the family benefit system”.
“In 2010, we started to build a family-friendly country… Our main goal is to eliminate the burdens that couples face when they would like to have children,” she said, highlighting policies including “lifelong exemption from personal income tax for women with four children”, partial mortgage write-offs for families after the birth of their second child, and grandparental leave.
“The recent demographic figures speak for themselves, the number of marriages is at its 40-year high, the fertility rate at its 20-year high, while the divorces haven’t been as low as last year in the last six decades,” she added proudly.
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Maybe the free 24hr Straight Porn channel helped.
And if you think MAKING babies is fun, just wait until you have grandbabies!
But Orbán has been in office since 2010. So maybe I should say that Trump is another Orbán. 🙂
(And sziasztok* to all my American-Hungarian fellow Freepers!)
* hi everyone
Send me a young and fertile hot Hungarian girl. Pretty please ? I’m still single and ronery. :-(
“Eduard von Habsburg, the Central European country’s ambassador to the Holy See ...”
I know that this is just a tad off topic, but it’s kind of neat to see a scion of the Imperial family taking a leadership role in one of the successor states.
My ancestors were Polish subjects of the good Emperor Franz Josef.
On the whole, if you had no other choice but to have your country occupied by either the Germans, the Russians, or the Austrians, which would you choose?
All levity aside, I could see a central European federation of the Habsburg successor states as a badly needed alternative to the EU.
I believe that Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic are already working within a sort of mutual defense pact.
And if they wanted to add a Habsburg heir as constitutional head of state — sharing expenses among several countries — well, that might work.
It’s certainly not a bit weirder than most of the edicts coming out of Brussels.
Szia! I lived in Budapest twice and learned the language.
and.....those are THE hottest chicks on the planet. They’re a little crazy but my god they are SMOKIN’ HOT.
> On the whole, if you had no other choice but to have your country occupied by either the Germans, the Russians, or the Austrians, which would you choose? <
Hungarian joke:
Q. A Hungarian soldier is in a foxhole. Advancing on him are a German soldier and a Russian soldier. Whom does the Hungarian shoot first?
A. The German. Business before pleasure.
Q. Why do the Czechs call the Russians "brothers" instead of "friends"?
A. You choose your friends.
You know, I heard the exact same joke many years ago, only with a Polish soldier in that foxhole.
It’s not always a planned affair.
> You know, I heard the exact same joke many years ago, only with a Polish soldier in that foxhole. <
I’m not surprised. There is an old saying: Hungarians and Poles drink from the same cup.
“lifelong exemption from personal income tax for women with four children”
If we did this in the US... Boom!
Women would quit their jobs in droves and men would be fully employed and wages would go up.
You know, I read somewhere a rather convincing historical analysis that one of the reasons Western European civilization prospered was that the Poles, Hungarians, Croats, etc. provided a buffer and did most of the fighting against the rapacious Ottomans.
Food for thought ...
There is a great book on the subject titled Why is Sex Fun? by Jared Diamond which basically lays out the argument that man's evolution to the top of the animal kingdom is because we, alone, see sex as a continuous enjoyable activity and not a seasonal thing. As a result, we alone formed stable and multigenerational family units which were further organized into tribes, then villages and finally civilizations.
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