The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[wendybeth]

'You must spread some mojo around instead of giving it to Alex, because he doesn't want mojo and prefers a person take their time and post an appreciative response, even if you are in a hurry and just popped in to check out the boards real quick.'

[sleepyjeff]

We live in a society in which more and more it really doesn't make economic sense to have children. Before the Great Depression when one got too old to take care of oneself one relied on their children....but with social security and other programs one relies on children thru the intermediary of the Federal Government....if one has no children then one is relying on, in essense, other peoples children to take care of them.

This is why we need more babies and why it is anything but "retarded" to campaign for such.

[wendybeth]

The cynic in me thinks they're really talking about cannon fodder.

[Alex]

But we don't need more babies. John Gibson admits as much. Though he then says that the Hispanics can't keep providing enough of them. He doesn't offer any support for this idea.

Also, the reason Europe needs more babies is because they have exactly the huge government entitlement programs against which John Gibson is thoroughly opposed. So, the need for more babies to perpetuate next-generation-funded entitlements is only a sensible conclusion if you support the next-generation-funded entitlements. The lack of babies will bring about the end of the entitlements that Gibson already opposes.

Further, the true demographic change that is stressing American next-generation entitlement programs is not a falling birth rate (for we are still popping them out at more than replacement levels, even among the gringos) but an extending lifespan. If John Gibson really wants to save the entitlement programs that he so strongly opposes then rather than unprotected sex he should be advocting a Logan's Run policy (though perhaps at an age that would allow his continued existence).

[sleepyjeff]

All true..............and once again I have debated myself into a corner defending John Gibson

[scaeagles]

I will not be watching or listening the Presidential address this late afternoon/early evening. I have no reason to believe that Bush has any desire to control the border, and listening will simply make me.....ill. Temporary national gaurd troops on the border? Not going to do anything, unless they are stringing hunderds of miles and layers of razor wire.

[SacTown Chronic]

Hey Leo, c'mon over and we'll not watch it together.

[Not Afraid]

I feel I must apologize to my fellow pasty white comrades for not having children and populating the earth with more of our good pasty white genes. But, at 44, it's not likely to happen and, I'm actually pretty happy with not having a little rug rat to support. Maybe they need to work on breeding the selfish gene out of us pasty white folks.

[scaeagles]

I am reasonably tan, as are my children. Do we not count?

[Not Afraid]

No.