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Aktungbby · 05-08-14, 10:58 AM

The old expression :"People vote with their feet" has gone by the boards. Due to the miserable decisions and instability of government at every level, excess taxation and fiscal uncertainty being prominent, we vote in the bedroom too

and that is serious! A defacto worldwide rebellion: If'n we don't like how we are governed, we'll create fewer people to be governed: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/07/5008758/fear-of-economic-blow-as-births.html "Growth in the working-age population has halted in developed countries overall. Even in France and the United Kingdom, with relatively healthy birth rates, growth in the labor pool has slowed dramatically. In Japan, Germany and Italy, the labor pool is shrinking.
"It's like health — you only realize it exists until you don't have it," says Alejandro Macarron Larumbe of Demographic Renaissance, a think tank in Madrid.
The drop in birth rates is rooted in the 1960s, when many women entered the workforce for the first time and couples decided to have smaller families. Births did begin rising in many countries in the new millennium. But then the financial crisis struck. Stocks and home values plummeted, blowing a hole in household finances, and tens of millions of people lost jobs. Many couples delayed having children or decided to have none at all.
Couples in the world's five biggest developed economies — the United States, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom — had 350,000 fewer babies in 2012 than in 2008, a drop of nearly 5 percent. The United Nations forecasts that women in those countries will have an average 1.7 children in their lifetimes. Demographers say the fertility rate needs to reach 2.1 just to replace people dying and keep populations constant.
The effects on economies, personal wealth and living standards are far reaching:" In short, IMHO, without a steady stream of willing thralls to mindlessly "feed Val" the 'paper money machine' will collapse of it's own dead weight. Bin Laden, prior to his demise, described the American economy as a 'paper tiger'-it appears to be losing its crew!

05-08-14, 10:58 AM	#11
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,056 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	We're voting with our gonads; not our feet The old expression :"People vote with their feet" has gone by the boards. Due to the miserable decisions and instability of government at every level, excess taxation and fiscal uncertainty being prominent, we vote in the bedroom too and that is serious! A defacto worldwide rebellion: If'n we don't like how we are governed, we'll create fewer people to be governed: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/07/5008758/fear-of-economic-blow-as-births.html "Growth in the working-age population has halted in developed countries overall. Even in France and the United Kingdom, with relatively healthy birth rates, growth in the labor pool has slowed dramatically. In Japan, Germany and Italy, the labor pool is shrinking. "It's like health — you only realize it exists until you don't have it," says Alejandro Macarron Larumbe of Demographic Renaissance, a think tank in Madrid. The drop in birth rates is rooted in the 1960s, when many women entered the workforce for the first time and couples decided to have smaller families. Births did begin rising in many countries in the new millennium. But then the financial crisis struck. Stocks and home values plummeted, blowing a hole in household finances, and tens of millions of people lost jobs. Many couples delayed having children or decided to have none at all. Couples in the world's five biggest developed economies — the United States, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom — had 350,000 fewer babies in 2012 than in 2008, a drop of nearly 5 percent. The United Nations forecasts that women in those countries will have an average 1.7 children in their lifetimes. Demographers say the fertility rate needs to reach 2.1 just to replace people dying and keep populations constant. The effects on economies, personal wealth and living standards are far reaching:" In short, IMHO, without a steady stream of willing thralls to mindlessly "feed Val" the 'paper money machine' will collapse of it's own dead weight. Bin Laden, prior to his demise, described the American economy as a 'paper tiger'-it appears to be losing its crew! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!