American births have fallen in eight of the last nine years. Europe shows what that bill looks like — closed schools, emptied villages, armies that cannot fill their billets. And the momentum now runs
A terrible tragedy that folks haven’t yet realized are the growing fertility problems that seem to be associated with the mandated COVID vaccine shots. In turn, I wonder if this nasty side effect is enhanced or tied to the mRNA carrier —which of course was just heavily funded and expanded for use with production of other vaccines. This still far from “safety proven” technology makes it cheaper and faster for big pharma to make even more obscene profits because $94 billion in profits for one year of govt subsidized covid vaccine development wasn’t nearly enough for those jackals. Anyway I’m observing fertility difficulties in child bearing age women who want babies. Hoping I’m wrong. Another few years will tell.
Add to your calculations the explosion in autism that further reduces military & working populations. It also negatively impacts caregivers who work less, have financial burdens for medical care & lifelong care. Toby Rogers wrote his doctoral dissertation on the economic impact of current autism rates.
I wouldn't mind a less populated, less crowded United State. But I sense that is not the future. Rather, the country is going to become ever more crowded and ever less united and the reason is unchecked immigration. The politicians and corporations and academia want it and this is what we will get.
The United States has the luxury of being able to import from a pool of billions of people who want to immigrate here. We could increase our working population quite rapidly just through changing legal immigration laws, if we wanted to. Many countries don’t have such a standing queue of productive workers waiting to chase The Dream.
Legal immigration is sustaining the populations of the Blue States in New England and the Mid Atlantic. The politicians love it and it helps to sustain housing prices and the economy, all while keeping thing crowded, much more crowded than if immigration was throttled.
However, these immigrants embrace the prevailing politics of their states and the consequence is ever more political polarization, with the Blue States not only securely democratic but wedded to policies that protect legal and illegal immigration. These states then focus on total social spending, and not quality of education and social outcomes. Why? It is because the schools simply cannot teach Math & English at a high level, or discipline students, due to the divergent cultural environment in which public schools operate.
Diversity is not a strength. It is actually a tremendous cost and tremendous social risk.
Too bad many of the immigrants want the benefits but hate our culture and want to control or totally milk the economic free market that made the dream possible. Arab spring should be a lesson in how controlled authoritarian economies keep poor people who want to work in dreadful poverty. Our global capitalists have polluted the waters with extraordinary greed and wealth, but still many enterprising folks have a chance not available in most highly regulated countries. Socialism & communism are another real damper. Loss of a middle class leads to even more income equality. Strong family units are critical in any case; government a lousy performing second choice.
I don't think the new immigrants hate our culture. They simply are not expected to learn and appreciate American culture.
The essential problem is the Americans on the front lines to teach American culture hate American values and tradition. This has long been the case with our universities and now anti-Americanism permeates public schools.
We should not blame and we should especially not hate immigrants. We should ask why it is that the educators paid by American taxes are unable to teach and promote the principles of American excellence.
I think one of the biggest problems is that our economics are specifically geared to growth. We don't know how to handle things getting smaller. We just panic and make everything worse.
One thing that would really help in the U.S. is better general overall health. Unfortunately, we have shot ourselves in the foot for decades. We are overfed and undernourished. We have polluted everything (many of which negatively affect fertility). Our (over) vaccination schedule has created generations of unhealthy children (and I am unsure if they can truly recover). I really hope MAHA can keep its momentum. If people's healthspan increases, then many of these potential issues would decrease.
I do think automation will play a big factor including robots.
I honestly don't see births recovering to any significant extent unless our culture becomes much more family friendly.
Another big part of the problem is that too many people / corporations / governments are too short term oriented. What's in it for me? We have all kinds of options, but most will never see the light of day because there are too many people that don't want them to see the light of day.
A terrible tragedy that folks haven’t yet realized are the growing fertility problems that seem to be associated with the mandated COVID vaccine shots. In turn, I wonder if this nasty side effect is enhanced or tied to the mRNA carrier —which of course was just heavily funded and expanded for use with production of other vaccines. This still far from “safety proven” technology makes it cheaper and faster for big pharma to make even more obscene profits because $94 billion in profits for one year of govt subsidized covid vaccine development wasn’t nearly enough for those jackals. Anyway I’m observing fertility difficulties in child bearing age women who want babies. Hoping I’m wrong. Another few years will tell.
Add to your calculations the explosion in autism that further reduces military & working populations. It also negatively impacts caregivers who work less, have financial burdens for medical care & lifelong care. Toby Rogers wrote his doctoral dissertation on the economic impact of current autism rates.
I wouldn't mind a less populated, less crowded United State. But I sense that is not the future. Rather, the country is going to become ever more crowded and ever less united and the reason is unchecked immigration. The politicians and corporations and academia want it and this is what we will get.
The United States has the luxury of being able to import from a pool of billions of people who want to immigrate here. We could increase our working population quite rapidly just through changing legal immigration laws, if we wanted to. Many countries don’t have such a standing queue of productive workers waiting to chase The Dream.
Legal immigration is sustaining the populations of the Blue States in New England and the Mid Atlantic. The politicians love it and it helps to sustain housing prices and the economy, all while keeping thing crowded, much more crowded than if immigration was throttled.
However, these immigrants embrace the prevailing politics of their states and the consequence is ever more political polarization, with the Blue States not only securely democratic but wedded to policies that protect legal and illegal immigration. These states then focus on total social spending, and not quality of education and social outcomes. Why? It is because the schools simply cannot teach Math & English at a high level, or discipline students, due to the divergent cultural environment in which public schools operate.
Diversity is not a strength. It is actually a tremendous cost and tremendous social risk.
Too bad many of the immigrants want the benefits but hate our culture and want to control or totally milk the economic free market that made the dream possible. Arab spring should be a lesson in how controlled authoritarian economies keep poor people who want to work in dreadful poverty. Our global capitalists have polluted the waters with extraordinary greed and wealth, but still many enterprising folks have a chance not available in most highly regulated countries. Socialism & communism are another real damper. Loss of a middle class leads to even more income equality. Strong family units are critical in any case; government a lousy performing second choice.
I don't think the new immigrants hate our culture. They simply are not expected to learn and appreciate American culture.
The essential problem is the Americans on the front lines to teach American culture hate American values and tradition. This has long been the case with our universities and now anti-Americanism permeates public schools.
We should not blame and we should especially not hate immigrants. We should ask why it is that the educators paid by American taxes are unable to teach and promote the principles of American excellence.
I think one of the biggest problems is that our economics are specifically geared to growth. We don't know how to handle things getting smaller. We just panic and make everything worse.
One thing that would really help in the U.S. is better general overall health. Unfortunately, we have shot ourselves in the foot for decades. We are overfed and undernourished. We have polluted everything (many of which negatively affect fertility). Our (over) vaccination schedule has created generations of unhealthy children (and I am unsure if they can truly recover). I really hope MAHA can keep its momentum. If people's healthspan increases, then many of these potential issues would decrease.
I do think automation will play a big factor including robots.
I honestly don't see births recovering to any significant extent unless our culture becomes much more family friendly.
Another big part of the problem is that too many people / corporations / governments are too short term oriented. What's in it for me? We have all kinds of options, but most will never see the light of day because there are too many people that don't want them to see the light of day.
Outstanding article. No easy solution.