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More babies = more recipients later

Assuming we could indeed turn up fertility at will & have more kids, that would not be a long term solution. Tomorrow's baby boom would be the day after tomorrow's baby boom retiree generation.



Low birth rates correlate directly with increasing education, particularly as regards women. Women generally are at their most fertile between the ages of 15 and 24 (give or take, depending on what study you read) and IIRC some recent studies suggested fertility dropping off steeply shortly after age 24. Well, guess what: young adults typically complete post-graduate studies right around that age or a bit later. That goes a long way toward explaining why young teenagers seem to get pregnant from merely standing downwind of a guy, while married committed established educated career couples ready to have and support babies can’t seem to conceive.



And what young people are most likely to delay marriage and childbearing in pursuit of education and advanced degrees? The more intelligent and motivated ones, obviously. We are filtering the brightest, most motivated, and most educated out of the childbearing pool. I say that if you really want to encourage particularly the most intelligent, educated, and motivated young people to have more babies, you need societal policies much friendlier to their marriage and childrearing while they are still of college age and don’t have advanced degrees and hi-dollar careers yet.



However, the problem IMO with Social(ist) (In)Security is Social(ist) (In)Security, not birthrate stats. I retch when the FICA confiscation is referred to with stupid socialist euphemisms like “contributions.” It is an abomination and a crime against the American people, and every day money is deducted from our pay to feed it is a fresh offense. It was designed to create a class of persons dependent upon the federal government and its iron rice bowl.



Why do we face a crisis in paying SS (as in Shutzstaffel?) benefits to the near-future retirees? Why can’t we dip into that sack of money they were paying in during their working lives? Because it’s been spent already, folks, it’s gone, with nothing now to show for it except literal “iou”’s. The FICA tax has simply been nothing but a second income tax used to grow government while payment for the alleged obligations was just punted down the road. FICA cannot in any real sense be “invested” by government; it can only be removed from the economy, to be replaced by taxpayers later. The last thing I want to see is Social Security invested in the stock market. You can be sure a Title IX from Hell will be imposed as a condition of having one’s stock in the SS portfolio, among other ill effects. Don’t even think of going there!



Furthermore, my impression was that the recent resistance to SS reform did not come from the seniors per se, but from the AARP and other “liberal” socialist pressure groups ( & we all know the rank-&-file members of AARP do not control the organization), and from the elite political class itself. Like I said, this is all about creating dependence on government, & they don’t want their gravy train stopped.



Let’s here no more about making or importing more children to feed the monster; let’s focus on slaying it and ceasing to confiscate productivity from the young that they could instead be investing toward their retirements.