Looks like people are choosing to have low maintenance pets over bringing new kids into the world. Think this is a bad trend? Personally the wife and I chose to not have kids but have had a number of cats and dogs in our two decades of marriage. Should the government encourage people to have more children? Or is it better for the planet for populations to decline?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
The Social Security question will be something to consider, especially with people living longer. One worker supporting one person on Social Security doesn't work out well for the payer.
Should we do like Euro countries and make maternity leave paid and mandatory? Or increase the tax benefits for having children?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Social Security will have to be restructured once we baby boomers have passed on. We skew the numbers. We just need to make sure we pay for ourselves so we don't leave a crippling debt for our kids and grandkids to pay.
chickaree wrote: Social Security will have to be restructured once we baby boomers have passed on. We skew the numbers. We just need to make sure we pay for ourselves so we don't leave a crippling debt for our kids and grandkids to pay.
Too late I'm afraid. Our worthless government can't even reduce the rate of spending GROWTH (without panic in the WH), not to mention reducing the actual debt itself. It's gonna be at least 20 trillion by the time Obama is out of office and if another tax and spend Dem becomes pres. after that.......
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
That's up to us in the Republican party. Of we can field a candidate that doesn't come off as either crazy, stupid or disconnected we should win easily. I've been dismayed by the quality of our recent candidates. The good people get eclipsed by the whackos and drop out early in the primary.
chickaree wrote: That's up to us in the Republican party. Of we can field a candidate that doesn't come off as either crazy, stupid or disconnected we should win easily. I've been dismayed by the quality of our recent candidates. The good people get eclipsed by the whackos and drop out early in the primary.
Who would you have picked out of the primary choices? Huntsman? To a large extent the press makes a mountain out.of a molehill of for any misstatement.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Time to tax the non-breeders more? You aren't doing your part for the nation by raising little taxpayers! Fertility rates are half what they were in the 1960's.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
