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The U.S. Economy's Big Baby Problem
The Atlantic ^ | MAR 5 2014 | DEREK THOMPSON

Posted on 03/24/2014 8:35:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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1 posted on 03/24/2014 8:35:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Golly. I wonder if abortion is a contributing factor ...


2 posted on 03/24/2014 8:38:16 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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Gee I wonder how that could happen, with schools and the government trolling for women to not get married and throw away babies, along with pushing homosexual marriage which can never produce normal offspring.


3 posted on 03/24/2014 8:39:07 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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The problem is the Birth Control Pill.

As soon as the Pill was introduced, birth rates plummet.


4 posted on 03/24/2014 8:44:37 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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The group that better pull it’s collective head out and read the tea leaves, is the Caucasian. Unless it relishes the role of being a minority in the United States in short order, it better start raising a herd per family.

I am jesting to a certain extent, but this 1 to 2 kids per family idea, has really gotten us in trouble. Everyone else is pumping them out at the rate of five to ten per family.

Doesn’t take long to see where that puts us.

In short order, there won’t be one self determining nation on the planet for Caucasians.

Folks, that’s a very serious issue.

If you think things are upside down now, you just wait.


5 posted on 03/24/2014 8:46:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
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Yes. I am a Protestant and I was not brought up to believe that contraception was bad. Abortion was bad, yes, but only Catholics thought contraception was bad. Well, I do not believe in contraception. It is bad. I no longer see any difference between abortion and contraception such as the pill. These things have done great moral and demographic evil.


6 posted on 03/24/2014 8:48:20 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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Of course, there's one group in which the birth rate is soaring - the Moslems. Their imams are clucking their tongues as they out-breed the infidel population.

Europe, as noted by many observers, is transmogrifying into Eurabia.

But the unrepentant hedonists in our benighted society continue to abort, euthanize and sodomize themselves into oblivion.



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7 posted on 03/24/2014 8:50:53 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1<center> <table back969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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From the Atlantic article. Two gay fathers!!!! It is like they are just trying to make us angry!!

8 posted on 03/24/2014 8:52:53 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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... homosexual marriage which can never produce normal offspring ...

I shudder to think ...

9 posted on 03/24/2014 8:53:56 PM PDT by dr_lew
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“Everyone else is pumping them out at the rate of five to ten per family.”


I did my part,I had five. My kids aren’t following in my footsteps.

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10 posted on 03/24/2014 8:57:06 PM PDT by Mears
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Well Jesus H you-know-what...

First, you have about 90% of the births come through at least CA through welfare because the government pays for the births and the care.

The very wealthy can afford it, have 2-3 and care well for them.

The middle like me have one child or so because of limited means. My wife says she knows she will regret it but that we really can't afford another child. To raise another child. To pay triple Obamacare medical rates and so on.

Then we look at others on welfare and they are birthing them like breathing mints and it is all paid for by taxpayers. But IMO the breath mint parents are not all that responsible and don't live by the same common sense as we might.

Something is very wrong when the most responsible are not the ones growing the population IMO.

11 posted on 03/24/2014 8:57:17 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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If we’re going to scrape all our bills off onto the kids, I guess we’re going to need some kids....


12 posted on 03/24/2014 8:58:26 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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Birth control is beside the point. Intelligent Americans have basically decided that they can only afford to properly raise 2 children, +/- 1, in the economy they live in. It's a conscious decision based solely on economics, period.

It is what they believe, not what is realistically possible from historical examples. I've been dealing with this reality from my own daughters over the last decade and no matter how much I advocate for them to have as many children as possible, the financial bottom line is their primary consideration.

13 posted on 03/24/2014 9:03:25 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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don't you know that men don't want to be tied down in marriage?....don't you know that many young men consider their sex lives to be sitting infront of their computers doing God only know what?.....that video games pass for competition?.....

instead of fixing cars, or fishing, or hunting, or chasing girls, our young men sleep with their computers and their playstations....

its so pathetic....

women to blame too.....too much silly shallow kardashians in their lives...

the world belongs to those that populate.....

14 posted on 03/24/2014 9:05:35 PM PDT by cherry
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Five per family? What family?

Maybe 5 to 8 per baby momma or whatever she is called. More to become unproductive dependents of workers.

If it becomes a competition for procreation they win, we lose. The difference is responsibility.

The End


15 posted on 03/24/2014 9:10:05 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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This is the big issue for the next generation. The developed world's birth rate is falling, and there is nothing right now that indicates it will get up above replacement level. Having a falling population will cause an cascading economic collapse, where people will not want to have children, which will continue the collapse, all at a time when we are least prepared to deal with it.

The same thing happened to Rome.

16 posted on 03/24/2014 9:17:48 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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If a capitalist economy needs an ever-increasing population in order to remain solvent, then it must be a form of Ponzi scheme.

But capitalism isn't a Ponzi scheme, so we don't need an ever-increasing population.

What's with all the Marxism? Marx was the one that claimed that capitalists depended on ever-expanding markets in order to exploit and succeed. The only other people that talk about the need for population to grow are the current set of companies trying to sell as much stuff as they can. If they can somehow convince governments to spend taxpayer money to create more consumers for them free of charge then they're all for that.

Those who demand that we grow our population will be more likely to start siding with the open borders crowd, i.e. better to have brown babies than no babies at all.

Let people be people and make their own free decisions. My understanding is that religiously minded folks tend to have more kids than liberal agnostics and atheists. So over time there will be more religious folks than agnostics or atheists. Hopefully there will be a fair share of Christians and Jews in the religious mix. My understanding is that Amish communities are growing like gangbusters so there will at least be that group of Christians for the Muslims to have to deal with.

17 posted on 03/24/2014 9:18:15 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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Big-Baby is a problem...


18 posted on 03/24/2014 9:18:24 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Sequoyah101

I produced four great kids and they have made eleven grandkids and ole grandpa here is looking at my first two great grandkids pretty soon.


19 posted on 03/24/2014 9:19:19 PM PDT by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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“...It’s natural, in a way. All over the world, birthrates tend to fall along with economic...”

Well...yeah. And then there’s contraception and birth control, abortion, and you know, burning babies for fuel and all.


20 posted on 03/24/2014 9:46:35 PM PDT by stanne
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