Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
There is a real crisis in the fertility rate which has fallen to such a low level that all the socialism going forward will simply collapse. What used to be the Baby Boom is now being called the “Baby Bust,” which means that in all first-world countries there is a real crisis for they have insufficient children to maintain their population size. This has been one excuse for allowing the refugees into Europe.
As the population dwindles, all the social programs are collapsing for they were NEVER designed properly from the outset. They are based on a Ponzi scheme where they rely on taxing a growing younger population to service the benefits of the older generation. This was the entire scheme behind Obamacare. Force the youth to buy insurance they do not need to reduce the cost for the elderly.
These findings were a huge surprise to those in government. They did not think it was even possible. The joke is that we will have more grandparents than grandchildren. A study published in the Lancet followed trends in every country from 1950 to 2017. During 1950, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime. The fertility rate all but halved to 2.4 children per woman by last year. They compared countries in Africa, such as Niger, where the fertility rate was 7:1 compared to countries like Cyprus where couples had just one child meaning that would be a 50% decline in population.
Even in Britain, the fertility rate has dropped to 1.7, which is similar to most Western European countries. Anything below 2 children per couple means a net population decline. This data clearly warns that the Ponzi scheme set up first in the New Deal of the Great Depression is no longer sustainable. The cost of childcare has skyrocketed and the rise in taxation has forced women to work, making childcare mandatory, but not affordable for 2 or more children. This creates an unsustainable future for taxation.
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Wow. Math is real. And meaningful. Who knew?
No wonder they scoffed Martin Armstrong off to prison for a few years.
The truth is too scary to be acknowledged. He asks too many relevant questions, and comes up with too many appropriate unhappy answers.
Not acceptable in the world of Disney thinking, where only happy answers to difficult questions are allowed to be aired.
. . . hooray?
Plain and simple fact: everything is about growth/Mammon.
All those brown 3rd worlders we are importing will be glad to give us their money in our old age. Right? especially since the Democrats want to give illegals the right to vote.
If the GMOs and vaccines don’t get’em, the abortionist will.
Add to this: The higher IQ people have less children, because their resources are being taken from them to feed the lower IQ morons, who fuck like rabbits and create more morons.
My brother and sister in law traded $$ for kids. They only have 1 when they could easily have 5.
My daughter married a trust funder. He’s an idiot though. Whatever, I’m trying to get her to have more kids since they can afford them she’s 23 and only has 1 child so far.
Right, smart people are like wolves, they breed when the resources support it. They worry about over extending and are cautious. Morons fuck like rabbits because what are consequences? Keep up the efforts to educate her.
“The cost of childcare has skyrocketed.” Yep.
I live in a modest middle-class suburb and have seen a lot of people fork over thousands of $$$ for day care and I marvel at the fact that in many instances, the incremental NET economic benefit of having Mom work at a job (after taking into account exorbitant child care expenses) is the equivalent of a minimum wage job …. For what???
How about this … live in a smaller house, ditch the gadgets, drive a beater, no Disney trip and quit paying $3k per year for bullshit cable packages?? Mom at home taking care of things and running a nice, stable house instead of being in the rat-race.
And at the top of the list … no one LOVES their kids more than their mothers … Dads are a close #2, but Mom’s are #1.
P.S. You can substitute “Dad” for Mom to stay at home … But Mom’s are (generally) BETTER at it. If anyone wants to whine that I am trying to live in some 1950’s world … God made women to bear and nurture children … No ifs, ands or buts about it. It’s FUCKING obvious, isn’t it?
All of the above being said, I get that sometimes it is essentially REQUIRED that both parents work … but in my view, a lot of times it comes down to rampant materialism … or some other bullshit ‘personal fulfillment’ exercise instead of doing WHAT IS ACTUALLY BEST for your kids.
Amen Joey.