I spent 40 years in marketing and never began any market analysis without looking at the demographics, yet I have never seen Kudlow -- or any of the pro-life Republican candidates -- give any weight to the enormous economic impact of abortion. Yet it has terminated the lives of 30% of the entire generation under 45. By January, the cumulative toll since 1967 will hit 55 million. How can that not have a major economic impact? I estimate the resulting cumulative loss in GDP at around $45 trillion -- or roughly 3 time our national debt. You can't eliminate that many future taxpayers, workers, consumers, and parents of the next generation without destroying your economy. ck it out: http://tinyurl.com/dc8skx Kudlow, pls copy.

All the stimuli haven't worked because they are like pushing on a rope without basic consumer demand. The fundamental problem is still weak consumer demand driven by the Baby Bust. Fifty-four million abortions is 18% of our total population. That affects every business with a cash register. About half of them would be in today's work force, but the other half would be creating jobs for other people. Yet our top economists don't have a clue. Fiscal discipline is essential because we're broke, but cosmetic changes can't replace substance. WWII ended the Depression, but it was the Baby Boom that drove the economy for the next 40+ years. The social welfare state just added a few nails to the coffin made by the Baby Bust.

I hate to disagree with the esteemed Thomas Sowell, but declining black populations in major urban areas have far more to do with abortion and declining birth rates than people voting with their feet. In New York and Washington DC, black abortion rates run as high as 60% or more, while black birth rates are dropping like a rock (down 46% in New York since 1990). They are not moving, Tom, they're disappearing.

It is time to reread M. Scott Peck's greatest book, People of the Lie, especially chapter 2, entitled "Toward a Psychology of Evil." Peck has a perfect description of the modern politician when he cites Erich Fromm, who "broadened the definition of necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others -- to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line" -- an apt description of the superstate Obama would like to lay on us. All we have to do to help him achieve this goal is to roll over and acquiese in whatever he has in mind for us. But our confusion about this in perfectly normal. As Peck...