Posted on 10/20/2018 9:33:40 AM PDT by EdnaMode
As 2017 drew to a close, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) urged Americans to have more children. To keep the country great, he said, we’re “going to need more people.”
“I did my part,” the father of three declared.
Ryan’s remarks drew some eye rolls at the time, but as new data about the country’s collapsing fertility rates has emerged, concern has deepened over what’s causing the changes, whether it constitutes a crisis that will fundamentally change the demographic trajectory of the country — and what should be done about it.
Women are now having fewer babies and at older ages than in the past three decades, a change that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reported this year, and which was confirmed this week with the release of additional data that shows that the trend holds across races and for urban and rural areas.
The CDC said Wednesday that the total fertility rate — a theoretical figure that estimates the number of births a woman will have in her lifetime — fell by 18 percent from 2007 to 2017 in large metropolitan areas, 16 percent in smaller metro areas and 12 percent in rural areas. A similar downward trend holds for white, black and Hispanic women.
Fertility and birthrates are among the most closely monitored indicators of a country’s economic health. When too high, a surging youth population might be unable to find work and become susceptible to unrest. When too low, economies can rapidly contract, and a small working-age population has to support a large retired population. The United States is somewhat more buffered because of its relatively high levels of immigration, but if the decline in fertility continues, demographers say, the country may face an extreme population imbalance
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Destroy the American fertility rate through abortion, feminism, high taxes and destruction of Christianity.
Bring in massive amount of high fertility 3rd world immigrants with completely different values.
Fundamentally transform America.
Almost like a plan...
“When too low, economies can rapidly contract, and a small working-age population has to support a large retired population. The United States is somewhat more buffered because of its relatively high levels of immigration, but if the decline in fertility continues, demographers say, the country may face an extreme population imbalance”
They couldn’t have stated more clearly why our borders are kept open deliberately...”replacement Americans”. Our government has practically legislated manhood and fatherhood into obsolescence...
We don’t need more people. We’ve got 330 million. We’d be better off with fewer.
Don’t forget widespread acceptance of pornography.
Bingo!
The death spiral birth rates(for whites) leads to two options - machete gov. spending to the bone(good luck with that) or import people to help to pay for the platinum welfare state.
I can’t even imagine what boys go through today growing up listening to the left telling them that being heterosexual and male means you are a bad guy, that all women are victims and you boys are evil. That HAS to definitely cause some damage to that kids head whereas when he grows up he finds it difficult to perform as it’s been hammered into their head that what he is doing is akin to rape even though it’s consensual.
This is by Leftist design. ZPG zero population growth. NOW sought to end the family as an institution. Antibreeder activists like Margaret Sanger and Kate Millet. Choice wasn’t on their mind. ZPG for all.
“concern has deepened over what’s causing the changes...”
That’s easy...no sex.
Yes. Why? And I think a lot of them later regret it.
“We don’t need more people. We’ve got 330 million. We’d be better off with fewer.”
You got that right. There were 140 million when I was born and that was/is plenty.
This is 99% governments doing. To compensate they pump in different cultures. Now Ryan blames this on us. I really dislike that guy
Yes. I thought robots were going to take over and leave massive unemployment. Why do we need more people?
“he said, we’re “going to need more people.”
Same BS the Merkel’s of the world are using to justify the bastardization and ruination of their countries.
THE SATANIC LEFT.
The Delusional, Lying Hypocritical Left embodied in the 80%+ unconstitutional federal government is at the core of America’s ills.
The answer is to
1) abandon humanism and the women’s movement, and come back to the grace of Christ, and then
2) dismantle the $3 trillion + unconstitutional portion of the federal government who subsidizes and promotes perversion and the breakup of families and the breakup of our society.
MAGA BY RESTORING OUR FREE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!!!
They have been sold on having a “career” first, family second.
The problem is, biology never takes second. A 44 year old woman only has about a 1% chance of getting pregnant naturally.
And the whole career thing is a lie. Very few actually make it to the top, and even those that do don’t stay very long. In the end, you get a lot of middle aged and older women with no family (they traded it for the career) whose careers are effectively over.
Then what? The women who have several kids and keep their husbands have something at that point. Those that bet everything on career have nothing. Family is a far better investment for the latter half of your life than a career.
Bears repeating. Nail-on-the-Head award winner.
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