how to push the ultimate "non" solution
Jan. 9th, 2005 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearthis editorial in the 'post, in claiming that everybody is missing the root of the problem, is proposing the exact OPPOSITE of what this country (and planet) needs.
*sigh*
yes its true that SS depended on a constant birthrate. however, the country (and the *world*) doesn't need a constant birthrate. quite the opposite.
levelling off the birthrate is a sign of an educated society, one that recognizes that your chances of your one (or both) children reaching adulthood in safety and health is FAR higher than it used to be 50 or 100 or 150 years ago. We don't *need* everybody to have 3-6 kids each. We can't realistically feed them all, much less the rest of the damned planet, at that rate. That's not counting the fact that its highly unlikely we'll have jobs for them all.
to say nothing about the rediculous problem of sprawl and crawl. again, throughout the civilized world, not just here.
as a society, we've realized the fact that we don't *need* to have 5 kids each anymore. we can't care for them (not financially without a working mother as well as father, with all the side effects of social problems that some latch-key kids have for not having parental care while at home). European nations learned this generations ago.
no, there have to be other solutions, because increasing the population of the country so irresponsibly will only give our present more problems than the future is ready to deal with, more so than the problem's we're already giving them.
The only true solution is to ease the burdens on today's parents that are driving down birthrates
*sigh*
yes its true that SS depended on a constant birthrate. however, the country (and the *world*) doesn't need a constant birthrate. quite the opposite.
levelling off the birthrate is a sign of an educated society, one that recognizes that your chances of your one (or both) children reaching adulthood in safety and health is FAR higher than it used to be 50 or 100 or 150 years ago. We don't *need* everybody to have 3-6 kids each. We can't realistically feed them all, much less the rest of the damned planet, at that rate. That's not counting the fact that its highly unlikely we'll have jobs for them all.
to say nothing about the rediculous problem of sprawl and crawl. again, throughout the civilized world, not just here.
as a society, we've realized the fact that we don't *need* to have 5 kids each anymore. we can't care for them (not financially without a working mother as well as father, with all the side effects of social problems that some latch-key kids have for not having parental care while at home). European nations learned this generations ago.
no, there have to be other solutions, because increasing the population of the country so irresponsibly will only give our present more problems than the future is ready to deal with, more so than the problem's we're already giving them.
