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Fewer Dollars and Babies Threaten Social Programs

Illbay Wrote: Feb 04, 2013 2:13 PM
...ain't a-gonna be a whole lot o' baby-makin' goin' on 'roun' heah! Look for the current fertility rate to plummet precipitously when it is retrospectively reported in a few years. (I already noticed that the age-range for women having a first child has gone up dramatically in the past decade). We are a POST-SOCIETY society. Bring on the Muslims.
Carl469 Wrote: Feb 05, 2013 3:23 PM
I would rather be the last American than admit so much as a single Muslim into my country. As for "where are all the good men?" -- hey, look around. They're there. Some are sort of "between jobs," but they're not an endangered species.
Our major public policies are based on the assumption that America will continue to enjoy growth. Economic growth and population growth.

Through most of our history, this assumption has proved to be correct. These days, not so much.

Last week, the Commerce Department announced that the gross domestic product shrunk by 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. And the Census Bureau reported that the U.S. birth rate in 2011 was 63.2 per 1,000 women age 15 to 44, the lowest ever recorded.

Slow economic growth and low population growth threaten to undermine entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare....

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