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Less stupid people being brought into the world? I see nothing wrong with that. It's about time. EDIT: And seriously: "The US birth rate has continued to decli

Less stupid people being brought into the world? I see nothing wrong with that. It's about time. EDIT: And seriously: "The US birth rate has continued to decline to a record low since the recession of 2007-2009. This is alarming." This is not alarming. The depression never ended. It'll be 2013 soon and we're still in a depression. This is supposed to be a serious educated article? Fail!

daeken 14y ago
s/Less/Fewer/; But anyway, saying things like "stupid people being brought into the world" is meaningless. That's not a birth issue, but an education one; you can argue that fewer people in the country makes education a simpler problem, but I don't know that that really matters in the grand scheme of things. Especially since birth rates for lower socioeconomic class families aren't dropping, to my knowledge, and those are the ones generally in the worst position for education.
- lucian303 14y ago
  There is no decent educational system in the US. Finally, stupid or not, more people in this world is the last thing we need. 7 bil++. The earth has limits (water)! Not to mention the artificial scarcities of non-scarce goods which none of the people in power are willing to stop.
tsotha 14y ago
>This is not alarming. It's certainly alarming if you have pay-go pension schemes like Social Security and Medicare. The way things are going either the young will live under a crushing tax burden or people who paid into social welfare programs for fifty years won't see any benefit. That's not a recipe for a stable society.
- dnu 14y ago
  The pay-go pension system is a huge ponzi scheme because it needs more and more people into the game with each generation. It lasted less than a century and it's on the edge of collapse now. Why should we postpone the inevitable?
  - tsotha 14y ago
    >The pay-go pension system is a huge ponzi scheme because it needs more and more people into the game with each generation. Depends on the ratio of the people paying in to the payout. Social Security would be pretty easy to fix by reducing the payout a bit and raising the tax a bit. The big problem, of course, is Medicare, and I expect that's why a single payer plan is inevitable in the US. These programs have problems as currently constituted, but they're fixable even if the population isn't growing. However, whatever problems we have will be exacerbated if the number of people working is actually falling.
  - lucian303 14y ago
    I don't think anything will be postponed despite anyone's efforts. Let's face it, if you're not about to retire you will have no SS. And if you are, you will get so little you won't be able to live off of it. Sad but true. And most Americans are afraid of socialism because they think it's somehow related to communism. No wonder there is never any progress in this country.
- lucian303 14y ago
  True. You have to accept this as it's inevitable. We're already paying for baby boomer's SS. There will be nothing left for us. I just hope that there's enough for the boomers.

daeken 14y ago

s/Less/Fewer/; But anyway, saying things like "stupid people being brought into the world" is meaningless. That's not a birth issue, but an education one; you can argue that fewer people in the country makes education a simpler problem, but I don't know that that really matters in the grand scheme of things. Especially since birth rates for lower socioeconomic class families aren't dropping, to my knowledge, and those are the ones generally in the worst position for education.

lucian303 14y ago
There is no decent educational system in the US. Finally, stupid or not, more people in this world is the last thing we need. 7 bil++. The earth has limits (water)! Not to mention the artificial scarcities of non-scarce goods which none of the people in power are willing to stop.

tsotha 14y ago

>This is not alarming. It's certainly alarming if you have pay-go pension schemes like Social Security and Medicare. The way things are going either the young will live under a crushing tax burden or people who paid into social welfare programs for fifty years won't see any benefit. That's not a recipe for a stable society.

dnu 14y ago
The pay-go pension system is a huge ponzi scheme because it needs more and more people into the game with each generation. It lasted less than a century and it's on the edge of collapse now. Why should we postpone the inevitable?
- tsotha 14y ago
  >The pay-go pension system is a huge ponzi scheme because it needs more and more people into the game with each generation. Depends on the ratio of the people paying in to the payout. Social Security would be pretty easy to fix by reducing the payout a bit and raising the tax a bit. The big problem, of course, is Medicare, and I expect that's why a single payer plan is inevitable in the US. These programs have problems as currently constituted, but they're fixable even if the population isn't growing. However, whatever problems we have will be exacerbated if the number of people working is actually falling.
- lucian303 14y ago
  I don't think anything will be postponed despite anyone's efforts. Let's face it, if you're not about to retire you will have no SS. And if you are, you will get so little you won't be able to live off of it. Sad but true. And most Americans are afraid of socialism because they think it's somehow related to communism. No wonder there is never any progress in this country.
lucian303 14y ago
True. You have to accept this as it's inevitable. We're already paying for baby boomer's SS. There will be nothing left for us. I just hope that there's enough for the boomers.