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| 2017-10-16 | |
| [American Thinker] They talk a lot about global warming in Europe and Canada. We do our share of talking here, too. Where is the talk about the real threat facing Europe, or the West as a whole, for that matter? Where are the marches calling on Europeans to get married and have at least two little babies? A march for marriage and babies may sound a bit silly but Europe could use one badly. Like a dead body of water, Europe is drying out in front of our eyes. At current birth rates, there won't be any Europeans around to determine if the global warming predictions were a hoax or real! Read this: "Europe needs more babies -- the average continental family has a mere 1.37 children...Germany is similarly concerned -- it could lose the equivalent of the population of the former East Germany within 50 years... Russia’s population is contracting at the rate of three quarters of a million a year: the resourceful Mr Putin is paying mothers to have a second child.... The last thing we should be doing is bullying people to breed less." ("The cry should go up in Europe: more babies, please" by Melanie McDonaghon) Furthermore, you can not preserve your values, culture and democratic ideas if you do not "seed the future" with your own people. We inherited progressive values from our parents and ancestors who gave us life. Don't we have a responsibility to bring life into the world and preserve our culture? Furthermore, at current birth rates, Europe can't finance its massive welfare state! Who is going to care for the old if there are no young people to work, pay taxes and defend a way of life?
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| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 The reason westerners don't have kids is because increasingly suffocating government makes life a pain anymore. Paperwork, regulations, PC, etc.. Who wants to bring kids into this world anymore? If used to be easy. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-10-16 11:56 |
| #2 Drudge Report has linked to the following Wall Street Journal article since yesterday. Sometime overnight they persuaded the site to unlock the article for their readers. It's at Drudge in the lefthand column near the bottom. A taste: German Towns Filled With Refugees Ask, ‘Who Is Integrating Whom?’ Earlier influx of foreigners feeds concerns about budget, safety, jobs and the quality of education Andrea ThomasUpdated Oct. 15, 2017 2:11 p.m. ET SALZGITTER, Germany—Late this summer, Nadine Langer took her six-year old to her first day at school. The girl was one of two German children in her class, she said, amid 20, mostly Syrian, refugees. Germany’s 2015 refugee crisis has largely disappeared from the headlines. But in this and other midsize towns, it is continuing to unfold, putting communities under stress, pressuring local coffers and feeding concerns about safety, jobs and the quality of education. Some 140,000 asylum seekers have entered Germany so far this year—a sharp drop from the 1.2 million who arrived in the past two years. But in places such as Salzgitter there is a sense that the government, having housed and fed the newcomers, is failing in the longer-term effort to integrate them in German society. This unease, pollsters say, boosted the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany at last month’s election, making it the first far-right party to enter parliament in half a century. This shock means immigration will loom large when Chancellor Angela Merkel kicks off negotiations on Wednesday to form a three-party ruling coalition. Immigration has also returned to regional politics. In Lower Saxony, where Salzgitter is located and which elected its parliament on Sunday, integration and schools have been central in the campaign. Conservatives for years have said that refugees, a majority of whom settle permanently in the country, must learn German values, a concept known as Leitkultur. Many here say they are proud of their town’s tradition as a refugee haven. But as their numbers rose sharply last year Salzgitter took the unusual step of requesting a moratorium on new arrivals. “The established parties lived in a bubble. They said everything was fine, closed their eyes to reality and didn’t see people’s concern,” said Salzgitter’s mayor Frank Klingebiel. Mr. Klingebiel hails from the conservative Christian Democratic Union. But his concerns transcend political lines. It was Stephan Weil, the left-leaning state premier who sought re-election on Sunday, who greenlighted the ban on further refugees moving to Salzgitter, which took effect this past week. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-10-16 09:09 |
| #1 They've been trying for a generation to pay their women to have more babies And not just their own women. When trailing daughter #2 was born in Germany in 1992, we started getting money from the government every month. It took Mr. Wife a great deal of arguing to persuade them to stop, as we were neither citizens nor had any intention of becoming permanent residents, |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-10-16 08:40 |