(01-10-2013, 02:23 AM)Occhidiangela Wrote: When you call someone else (me) a Mindless Patriot you affirm once again, for me, both your deliberate stupidity and your willful ignorance. Both are self inflicted wounds. I've been hearing the brand of tripe you spew for about four decades. It wasn't very sensible when I first heard it, and is less so now. It may be new to you, but it is tired old crap to me. Marx did some interesting work on understanding economic theory, but his political assumptions have been proven wrong again and again.
Thanks for not disappointing. I could almost set my watch to your foolishness.
Bun Bun: thank you for the link. The Mao era initiative "single child" policy is slowly eroding. We shall see, in the next generation, what choices people in China make when there are fewer restrictions. India had two thirds of the population of China in the late 60's, about 400 million to about 600 million. They have passed China.
Note: Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia ... significant numbers of large population nations are still at positive population growth numbers.
We'll see if the predictions and assumption in that article come to pass.
Occhi
But this is a known phenomenon for years isn't it. People in poorer coutries reproduce more. If the country is poor enough many of the children will not reach adulthood but if such a country starts developing there will indeed be a huge poplation growth.
In rich western countries there is no need for getting 4 or 5 children or even more, and because we have time to think about things we also think it is better not to have so many children. (even though overpopulation is not influenced much by birthrates in the west).
But I mean saying were stupid because we don't reproduce enough seems to me a bit strange.
(01-10-2013, 07:09 AM)kandrathe Wrote: In 2020, that goes to 4 to 1, and in 2030 it goes to 3 to 1. Our current government services consumes about 20% of GDP much of which goes into medicare, and social security (they are combined about 41% of the federal budget).
But just reproducing more is nothing more than a ponzi scheme.