Before getting to the remarks in the video below, about “living through the greatest Western population bust in human history,” let me first bring attention to something I recently noticed.
While visiting Russia, there are several social factors exclusive to this nation. Some of the distinctions are relatively new, (resurgence of religion and faith supported by the state), and some of the developments have been taking place over a longer arc of history, (expanded national population, and family incentives supported by the state).
It might seem like an odd thing to notice, but the number of Russian families with young children far exceeds that seen in any other EU metropolitan area and/or American city.
If you look at the issue from a review of children aged 4 to 10, the difference is stunning. The number of Russian people with children in Russian cities far exceeds the number of Americans seen with children in large urban areas of the USA.
Kevin Dolan talks about the depopulation problem at a Natal conference in 2023. It’s not a scientific addendum, but from my own observations during travel; it is quite noticeable how American children, in the 4 to 10-year-old age range, have seemingly disappeared. WATCH:
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If we can keep the Left authoritarian nightmare state at bay, help is on the way. My church in a semi-rural, exurban area of the South is full of large families, a few with 6+ children. I’d estimate 80% of the families in our church have 3 or more. It is the rural and religious in the US that are having children, and the urban and non-religious are largely barren. In 20 years, the social tide will start to turn if we can avoid being hauled off into re-education camps and murdered in the meantime. We just had a combined shower for 3 young pregnant mothers. A collapse and restructuring of institutions of higher education that are putting our society’s intellectual classes in an ideological bubble would help too.
Similar stats to our PCA church in the N E Georgia mountains. We’re blesssed with a growing membership, and most of the new members are young families. Our church is also home to a Classical Kids school and a dedicated homeschool academy, run by the moms themselves _ at least one of whom is an escapee from the gvernment school system.
Same here in little Pittsburgh, pa . My small little church is filling with large families, and it’s wonderful to see.
We live in WA State and I believe that my granddaughters are the only three-sibling group in their entire K thru 6 elementary school. I am never shy about professing my conservative values to anyone I meet. There are a lot of people in this state that hate my guts. They can have their stupid Joe Biden.
Yes, WA State seems to be expanding its sick, unthinking, Lib base. Sad, and Dangerous to some of us.
The slide to full communist in the State of Washington started with the implementation of statewide vote by mail fraud. Not likely to see any changes anytime soon
yes you three WA commenters are on the money. hate WA government love the natural resources. live on west olympic peninsula in very small community. understand rural eastern WA is good too.
Same to similar here in the great state of WY. The whole thing may work out well for U.S. (us americans) The trans generations not able to populate more of the same, where as christian conservatives are getting after it!
Similar to what I told my children 10 to 15 years ago, homosexuality CAN NOT sustain itself. Males breeding males, or females with females DO NOT produce offspring. We own and operate a cow/calf ranch, the concept is simple.
They believe that science will answer that dearth born of barren souls.
Creating new monstrosities and new forms of broken minds to satisfy their selfishness.
Surrogacy is an abomination, a Hellish new slavery.
I agree. I know, some argue the camels tent argument, of ‘but what about hetro couples that can’t concieve?
Well first off there is adoption, and there are two different instances in my family; Drs told them can not concieve,…so they adopted, and 2 years later she is pregnant.
Also, maybe God Knows best, if you can’t concieve, …
But of coarse “what about if a couple can’t concieve?” includes because its a he/he or a she/she couple, so once your down that road,…
I have long wondered that we don’t have artificial wombs,..as we already have heart-lung machines, and kidney (Dyalsis) machines,..and lo and behold I see a company in Europe has artificial womb, designer babies available.
Dutchman I have read that vaccinated people are having BIG issues with infertility.
The rates of Disability are off the charts I’ve read too.
Young people that are sick, disabled, addicted or mentally ill, this is A LOT of people today.. which is devastating.
The fertility issues, including low sperm counts, this all was going on before Covid even hit.
I don’t think that it’s a stretch at all to say the need here coming is great.. so those that can, please do !!
A friend is visiting Adelaise, on the S. coast of Australia. Adelaide was the most non-lockdown of any province in Oz, along with Perth.
Point is … With the very high vax rate in Oz, many, many couples are finding that they’re infertile, or miscarry, or have stillborn, etc. It’s a BIG DEAL. So it’s all over.
I’ll bet these parents haven’t connected it to the “vaccines” though, have they? The babies still receive a whole bunch of them, too.
Why aren’t doctors alerting their patients instead of blindly following “the science” of Big Harma’s managed care propaganda? I’ve completely lost trust in most doctors.
Most people, doctors and patients alike, have a habit of being blind followers. The end times will *not* bode well for such people.
The SyFy channel series Helix ends with a nightmare scene of every single pregnancy being created and preserved in a medical facility due to a willfully spread virus that essentially sterilizes the portion of the species that survives.
In such cases, of course, who is worthy of the State’s trouble is the determining factor in who is allowed to become mothers.
I was haunted by that image at the beginning of the Plandemic; others are beginning to sound the alarm, but the jabbing has taken place, the virus, wild and weak, or turbo-vaxxed, is endemic, and the vulnerabilities they created amongst the population remain exploitable by further demonic creations.
We’ve seen but the first act of a very tragic tale I fear.
Yep. 3 new babies in our small church in the last 6 months. Homeschooling group expanding at leaps and bounds
I’m in a Latter-day Saint congregation in Calgary, Alberta. I have seven children. Most families in my ward are in the 3-5 range (one family’s fifth baby is overdue and is scheduled to be induced at any moment).
In Southern California there’s a wonderful explosion of babies everywhere! Every park and playground full of children especially toddlers. Lot’s of infants and newborns in baby strollers.
I have three new grandchildren and two in the last five months. Many of the moms here are late 30’s and early 40’s. It’s very fashionable to be pregnant and have children.
Lot’s of families with lot’s of money, new cars and new homes even at insane prices. It’s like money grows trees here!!!
At this point, how would this current generation of young adults even know how to properly raise a stable and loved child?
These current young adults were raised in day care or in front of a TV, their friends are their tablet and phone, they have mediocre social skills, they were deprived of maternal love, home cooked meals were few, and they are quite angry and emotionally unstable.
I know that there are exceptions but just look at them at college campuses and on videos. We have had 3 generations of Day Care Children since women were enticed to work outside of the home.
Unless these young adults and all people coming up through schools learn how to properly raise a child that actually is able to bond emotionally to other people then we are bringing babies into the world that will continue poor parenting skills.
Just look what the government has done to the black family. Females multiple babies starting at the age of 15 and have babies from absent and multiple men. This atrocity has been going on for decades.
How do we reverse this nightmare and turn females and males into stable, loving parents?
At the cusp of the Great Society, there was a slightly higher percentage of Black children being raised by their married parents than that of White children.
True. Stats for the now-“renovated” Hill District in my hometown of Pittsburgh PA show that, in the late 1940s/early 1950s, black families had lower divorce rates than did white families.
Yes, black families were unified until the CIA put drugs on the streets to fund secret wars, and then the government sent car making across seas and the border! Whenever I see a black person with a white Democrat, I wonder why they’re not punching them in the face!
This is true even up here in the Northeast.
My grandmother is almost 100 years old right now and lived as a young married mother of four in a Boston suburb with a very happy and successful mix of blacks and whites..
They all lived side by side, worked in the same factories, raised their kids together.
They all socialized together.. there truly were no issues.
She says today that was the happiest time of her life.
It was all destroyed, literally, with ‘bussing’.
The story she tells of what went on in her tight knit community was horrifying.
These people people didn’t even know what was going on.. kids just ripped out of their lives and bussed to the other sides of towns… most parents back then had never even laid eyes on these places.
Most packed up and moved on to actually “flee’ what they had happen to them, what they witnessed, and that was the end of the childhood my mother knew.
I think you can see why I’d be raised to despise Democrats.. my grandmother has seen a lot- and suffered a lot in their ‘solutions’.
One trait I so strongly admire about President Trump is his love for *all* people. This charity of spirit throughout his lifetime is evident in testimonials of his interactions with people in all walks of life (not just when he seeks to win an election).
We need to *unite* as one American people who defend our God-given rights codified by our Constitution and refuse to be controlled and exploited by DEI and transhuman experiments.
Warehousing infant should *not* be a popular, go-to default for parenting. People who make babies should take full responsibility for the care of their own children.
Before DEI, AI and transhumanism (half human, half robot) came to the fore, people led simple, yet spiritually fulfilling lives. We, ALL of us as human beings, NEED to get back to basics and lose all the extra baggage.
“Progress,” my arse! Progressivism be damned!
This has been going on for decades. Growing up in the early 2000s, I didn’t have many friends whose parents were still together. The families weren’t stable then and I don’t think it’s gotten much better.
Reversing the nightmare will take a conscious effort everyday by those men and women who choose to do better and be the mothers and fathers that they need to be regardless of outcome.
It will not be a quick process. This a generational issue and solving it will be a generational undertaking.
Some very good and very sobering points! Definitely going to be interesting, if we end up still having a future!
How do we fix it? Pulling the plug on mass brainwashing state propaganda television is where I would start.
It appears that the PLUG has to be pulled on many more gadgets being used now, than the Idiot Box. Critical Thinking is being blocked on all of them.
You know the “Hard times make hard men, hard men make easy times,.”
It may well be that what is needed is truly an end of civilisation as we know it, and for instance collapsing the grid, or the internet may be the best thing to happen, in retrospect.
I say try to, little by little move closer to a proto- or pre-civilisation lifestyle, think of the Amish as a pretty good example of a surviving proto-civilisation community and lifestyle.
Local INTERdependance, and self-reliance, rather than absolute dependance on long, tenuos, fragile and subject to disruption supply chains spanning around the World, for those things we are utterly dependant on;
Food, potable water, waste dusposal, energy, transportation, housing, medical care,..
The Centralised system sucks,..get over it. Its marketed by offering illusions it never delivers on;
Safety/Security,
Prosperity/Status,
and
Convenience/Efficiency.
Promises, NEVER delivers!
They’re crying out for help and someone filled the void
The same who created it, n’est-ce pas?
Yes
I recently prayed for a young black woman who was having back pain. I told her that she had a heavenly Father who loved her very much. She said that she never had an earthly father who loved her. It broke my heart. We, the church, need to let these mothers know about their heavenly Father.
Good luck with that. Young white liberal females are more interested in raising dogs than they are about raising children. I have never seen so many young females with dogs.
Well, an awful lot of them LOOK like dogs,..so there is THAT, ..
Show them the way, the truth and the life
Gays can not reproduce, but Sociopaths CAN, DO AND HAVE.
And while there is definetly a genetic component to sociopaths, it can also be imparted by being raised in a non-nurturing environment such as you describe…
Or, what my Dad called “Children raising children”.
Don’t paint with broad brush strokes. My mom was not “enticed” to work outside the home. She had to. My parents would not have been able to afford a house otherwise, and my dad needed my mom’s healthcare plan when he was going through cancer treatment. It’s so easy for people on this website to sit there and b*tch and moan about people you don’t even know.
You choose to have children, or you remain children.
Nah, I don’t buy that.
We come from large families and I mean large families.
Some married and some did not. Some had many children, some did not.
We are discussing a completely different age than what we are witnessing today.
At that time, I do not know of ANYONE who even thought about ABORTION….there were out-of-wedlock babies and they were loved and cared for. The Mom and baby were accepted and loved by the majority of people, however, every community has its arrogant hypocrites.
But most of all, abortion was very, very rare; unheard of in my neck of the woods and generation.
Today: It is kill, kill, kill day-in and day-out; even with children under the age of 12 years old.
We watched 2 generations destroy humanity in search of freedom of sexual thought and talk. When we are forced to watch and listen to public advertising of birth control methods, devices, what-have-you and underwear … so much underwear….WTH????
Society gave up decency, modesty, honesty, living a Christian life and life-long-loving family relationships and embraced killing and death.
See how glamorizing birth control and abortion has destroyed the respect for life and living in our society; it’s smack dab in our faces every.single.day and has been for decades.
Faith, Family, Country.
Sounds like a winning campaign in any NORMAL country… obviously not in USA today.
From the perspective of a 25 year old male. I haven’t found a a single women, in my age range, that’s as serious about starting a family as I am. Its abnormal to want more than 2 kids and everyone is told to wait till they’re 35 to start.
That appears to match up with what I’m hearing from friend’s grandchildren who are a bit older than you are.
However, even in the midst of the baby boom, post-war, I was the result of an anomaly; a woman who waited until she was 37 to have a child and only had one. The next in line in her family of 11 siblings, her youngest sister, had her first at 18, more the norm for those times, though only had two children in total, which ended up being pretty customary for that side of my family and a severe downsize from the family they grew up in.
Ironically, due to similar frustrations many decades ago, I ended up in the FSU and nearly married a lady who’d already done all the family stuff and was more than happy to remain there and continue her medical practice. Her family exemplified the topic of families with children and grandchildren being seen out and about; however, back then there was a dearth of males, mainly due to casualties from Communism and alcoholism.
Best wishes in your pursuits!
Does your search include the congregations of any Reformed churches?
Yep, I’m part of a 2 young adult ministries that meet weekly and then my normal Sunday church. I only have to find her once, so I just pray for her until then.
Blessings to you, my young brother – may the Lord’s will prevail!
Proverbs 3:5 and Mark 11:24 guide me. Thank you for the blessing.
Where in Florida?
Tampa Bay
Anything worth while, is worth waiting for, and short cuts make for long delays.
If only people understood this.
And that it’s better to have a hard truth than a soft lie.
Daughter was 36 had one child.. Son is now 36 hasn’t met anyone that didn’t come with an instant family or wanted kids
I gotcha. My dad started at 37, he had kind of lost hope, but now he’s got 5 kids and has 2 grandkids on the way. Men can wait, I’d rather not.
My dad was 37 and my mom 34 when they got married. Had three kids, mom was 40 when my sister was born. No problems at all with pregnancy; guess it was normal to have kids and not be labeled older and problem pregnancy.
Perhaps it is meant to be.
My first wife, rushed in big mistake.
My perfect mate I found after 10 years of post divorce singlehood,…and she is 15 years younger than me, a seemingly perfect match.
As you said, men can be older when they concieve.
That’s basically the same story as my dad. Married at 23, divorced. Married my ma at 35 and she was 22. Haha
Florida Man, I was recently speaking with the most beautiful black woman named Cecelia. I asked her what her name meant and she said that it was St. Cecelia, the patron saint of music. Then she went on to say that it meant “blind.” She said that she felt she was blind to things of this world and was seeing with spiritual eyes. She said she was afraid she might not ever find a husband because most black men her age are not interested in getting married and raising a family, something she most certainly is. I had the privilege of being able to pray for her and assured her that God has a husband for her.
Due to fertility struggles, my wife and I did not start until she was 35. At 35, all pregnancies are considered as “geriatric”.
I’m glad yall didn’t give up. I can only imagine how difficult it was to go through that. I’ve known more than a few couples that didn’t make it through fertility issues.
My son became a dad at 45 for the first time! His wife is 41 and they have a beautiful little girl who just turned 4 months! They live in San Diego.
Congratulations Grandpa! Just wait ’til she looks up to you the first time and calls you Papa…..life will never be the same. 😀
Wow! Thank you very much!
Wonderful! I really can’t fathom a joy greater than fatherhood. I’m extremely happy for your family!
Thank you very much!
I have a daughter who is now 41. She and her husband lived together for 12 years before they got married and started trying to have babies. They wanted to have all the material stuff before they brought kids into the world. They had one at age 35 and one at 40. They might even be retired before child #2 finishes college. Times have definitely changed since I was a young man.
I can understand the reasoning and I agree with them, you should have certain “boxes” checked before bringing a child into this world. However, I’ve heard people say “There’s never a good time to have a kid.” I’d assume it’s kind of like starting a business, except you can never declare bankruptcy Haha. I hope I found out one day. I bet you’re a proud Grandfather.
Boxes to check
Make sure you are each right with God, and right FOR each other.
Insure you are agreed on values and priorities, goals and coarse.
Get off credit, entirely and wean off Insurance (Credits ugly sister) as much as possible.
Don’t take things TOO seriously.
and go for it!
As long as wanting “all the material stuff” doesn’t include needing the lifestyle of the rich and famous to be ready.
Having a job and a place to live is a good start. Having an education is good too, but that doesn’t mean you have to have college degrees. Some college degrees are overrated.
I’d be extremely cautious about starting a family. It’s good for society as a whole for fertility to increase, but with the modern legal system and so many women initiating divorces, it’s a bad bet. The supposedly religious girls are the worst too in terms of how they treat men, so looking in churches won’t work. Nothing in it for a young man and a whole lot to lose.
That comment sounds rather Democidal.
🤔
Hopefully I have enough discernment to find a good one. A majority of my male friends see it as an everything to lose, not much to gain situation. Trust me, I’m a cautious dude haha.
Holy miserable outlook.
Southern California women are different and definitely into being new moms. Babies are everywhere! Parks are full of toddlers and children. Being pregnant and having children is definitely fashionable in Southern California now. I know Florida very well. The joke about being God’s Waiting Room is very true.
It’s funny, when it rains, it pours. My sister and sister in law are both pregnant. Now I see pregnant women and infants everywhere Haha. It’s like when you get a new car and you start noticing the same model everywhere.
But that’s the thing I worry about, it being “fashionable” to have babies …
What happens when it’s no longer fashionable or fun, when it involves real sacrifice. I’m concerned that it will come back to bite us.
Despite all efforts to reduce the number of people…
America still has the most dense population 🙂
I heard it’s super-dense in Gaza.
I hear gazans are super dense…
WTH?? That’s not even remotely true.
You may have just proved my point 🙂
I think you needed a /s tag. People aren’t getting the play on words. 🤣
Thanks, Joy…The ‘Smiley Face’ is my sarc tag.
Or, another way to look at it…
Just assume my comments are puns or sarcastic! 🙂
Maybe he should give the game away with a clever moniker?
🤪
Something like ad homonym.
LOL! It’s fun adding them…
At a certain point, people just need to learn to slow down in their reading/scrolling, to let their brains catch up.
According to th US ranking in Math & Science, that is true. Probably Number One in “touchy-feely” though.
According to Seti, the search for intelligent life, anywhere in the Universe,…while ongoing has so far been unproductive.
At least they are looking in the right direction!
Grace Force Podcast covered this topic well this week. Jason Jones brought a lot of “in the trenches” experience to the conversation!
One of the reasons I’m not too worried about mass immigration to the US, future tax payers of America when I retire soon. TYVM.
If you haven’t read 1984 it’s time to read it. If you have read it it’s time to reread.
Also Atlas Shrugged.
Who is Joy Galt?
Excellent question.
IMHO, Huxley’s “Brave New World” is a closer depiction of our current times.
Apparently much of early dystopic literature was meant not as warning but as planning and programming.
An Instruction manual.
Indeed.
If you know the cost of raising 1 single kid to the age of 17 in a Western nation, it is a whole lot less suprising why people have less and less kids.
I think fof US it runs in the $400,000 dollar range (assuming a family of 2 kids and re-use of clothes and such) Big numbers.
And now include private schooling as well as you dont want your kid wokey brainwashed.
The good news is if they vote Democrate they wont have to pay back their student loans.
Take me back to the time that I could support 10 kids with my factory job and my wife stayed home.
The trick is to divest yourself of all the things the culture has told you are “essential.” cable, wifi, streaming services, fast food, new cars (vs. getting a used one when your current one gives up the ghost), each kid needing their own room, years of university education.
The main reason costly pre-schools and many after school extracurriculars are even a thing is because both parents have to work to pay for all of those “essentials.”
Amen!
Agree! That $400,000 figure is insane to me. My kids would never “see” multiple pairs of celebrity footware, t-shirts, or any of the ‘gimmicks’ (they would be earning $$ themselves to pay for them), and they wouldn’t be wearing expensive bluejeans with slashes in them, either. I was earning nickles and dimes from neighbors when I was eight, and my (shared) bed was tidied up before I went to school (which actually “learned” me the Three R’s.
That’s the approach the wife and I took heading on towards a half century ago.
After my separation from active duty a couple of years prior to when we wed, we hashed out a plan which outlined duties. I would earn the filthy lucre while she handled the home and raised the chillun’s.
We were very fortunate in that I managed to earn a fair to good living albeit at the expense of working 60/80+ hours a weeks, 24×7 on-call one week a month, all while studying to advance my skill-set. My oldest child, for the first five years of their life, was not sure who the haggard guy was who popped in at the oddest hours… We did not sport about in new cars/trucks, nor splurge on expensive vacations, dining out all the time, or any of that… We covered the basics, food shelter, savings, buying a home rather than renting, etc.
Even way back then, we were considered strange in our antiquated views on and method of marriage and division of duties…
Our young’un are now in their forties through mid-thirties and trying to follow our lead. I know it’s harder on them that it was for the wife and I.
Spending your first year away at college taking remedial courses is just a tiny bit wasteful seeing how maybe your high school shouldn’t have given you a diploma? Did your HS guidance counselor or parents know you were college bound? It would have been mucho cheaper to learn those remedial things for free at your local high school.
Borrowing money to go AWAY to college seems wasteful when you could live at your parents house and eat for free and attend a community college? No one really cares where you did your 1st 2 years of college anyways.
Also, for millions of years, people got a 4 year degree in 4 years and worked summers to help keep what they borrowed to a minimum. That works out to be 15 credit hours a semester, not 12, and you could also keep that borrowing down by working summers and not vacationing all summer and partying your money away.
I think too many young adults are taking out student loans to finance their student apartments and lifestyle instead of working their way through college. Also, a state university would suffice for a majority, but many want the more costly private colleges.
Yes! AND, actually a blessing; for a whole generation or more, parents were told they HAD to get their kids in the premier pre-school, so they coukd get into the right schools, so that their kids could “to get a good job, get a good education” go to University.
Now, with the true nature of University educations being exposed for what some of us long knew it was, parents can get back to the basics of instilling in their kids the life skills needed to stand on their own.
A Genius, with no formal education, is STILL a genius, and frankly will teach themselves “self-taught”.
An idiot with a Masters Degree, is just an over educated Idiot.
Perzactly
Used cars in decent condition are as much almost as new cars these days and pretty scarce. The repairs on used cars is no bargain either. Brakes and other regular repair items are not cheap. We can cut every extra or pricey perk, draw down expenses to bare bones and it still is majorly expensive right now to live in the USA. The poor are taking the biggest hit as was expected when inflation began to rise so rapidly. The dependency on govt services will grow especially with the millions of invaders adding to the ranks of needy.
I was born in 1957. My parents were legal immigrants from Austria post WWII. We lived near L.A. and my dad worked as a union plasterer. My mom stayed home with three boys. My dad only owned brand new cars and yet paid for all of them cash. Never had a credit card. He had a few mortgages, but that’s the only money he ever borrowed. We never really wanted for anything. He owned three homes and had only one small mortgage when he died in 2016.
Proof of how great a country America used to be.
Its all about a simpler life, but people won’t do it. Eating out, $1000 phones, wasting food etc Home schooling would save many a fortune, but they would rather have the expensive things they can’t take with them.
I was rummaging through old pictures the other day and ran across what was a rare occasion as a child; eating out. The occasion? My confirmation (that’s a Catholic thing); the picture was of myself and my sponsor (think that’s what is was called) in front of a smorgasboard place called The Carriage House.
I didn’t start eating out with any regularity until I had a job and paid for it myself. Even then it wasn’t common. I probably ate out more when married in my 40’s and 50’s than during all the decades prior. Since, back to cooking at home.
My dad did moonlight as a tax preparer to pay for my private education. I remember because it was more expensive than what I paid to go to college by a bunch. Back then a kid could easily pay cash for college even at a four year place. Engineering school cost me about 300 bucks per semester including books. Easily affordable working summers.
I’ll bet not many kids pay cash for college these days. Tuition and supplies have gone nuts. What a racket. One more looming reason for some folks to eschew having kids, the cost of education. Private school and college are out of this world expensive these days relative to ordinary wages.
Yep, same. My parents had 6 boys and then, finally, my sister. Mom cooked at home. A few times, grandmother or godmother would take all of us to a real treat: the Chuck Wagon, or Bit o’ Sweden Smorgasbord, which were all-you-can-eat places. The perfect places for ravenous kids!
I remember lunch one time at the Elks Lodge. The Elks had sponsored our Little League team, from 1962-66. We won the championship in 1966, going 18-3. I had to ask a teammate what kind of dressing to have, and he said: “Roquefort”. I had no idea what it was. We had mayo mixed with ketchup at home, and my mom called it Thousand Island.
In high school and college, I had a series of different jobs at restaurants, coffee shops, and a hotel. Best thing: you got one, and maybe two, meals.
Even through college and law school, eating out was a rarity. It was only when I was gainfully employed that restaurant-going became any kind of regular thing.
We all went through school with no student loans. I worked summers running a chainsaw for a US Forest Service timber stand improvement crew, which included firefighting. Could usually make it through a quarter or two of college before getting a part-time job to finish the school year.
They were great times, in California in the 60s-70s. Most of my friends did the same thing, working and going to school. Tuition at UCSB was $219/quarter, and Santa Clara Law School tuition was $1250/semester.
Florida Man you have absolutely got to move to an area of church going people that have large families and put them first.
It’s a culture, a belief system, it’s critical for marriages and families- if you want peace and happiness!
Believe me when I say this: trying to raise a good family in a very politically charged and divided area is truly a nightmare.. My state couldn’t even pass a Parental Bill of Rights- which frankly was full of common sense items like NO the state does not own my kids!
Don’t be in a area or a state where all this is going on. Where crazy people have more power than you do.
One of my biggest regrets in life is not getting out of this area before having a family.
But sadly, we don’t know all this until we’re up to our eyeballs in it and the kids don’t want to move.
Had someone told me what I’m telling you- I’d have listened and appreciated the heads up. I wish someone did !!
Check your boxes and feather your nest in a good tree in a good forest.
This generation is extremely fragile as a whole. They live in fear of everything. Relationships are at the top of their fears. Being parents is their ultimate fear. Every generation questions the times they are raised in. This one has been organically grown to fear.
I think you nailed it.
They are even afraid of being called male, or female. They are weak!
Reality is so judgmental.
Cloward Piven method; fear and confusion immobilizes people, not to mention the chemicals we walk in.
IMHO there is another more pernicious component to this depopulation. I believe that the West is about to become involved in wars on multiple fronts. The U.S. and other countries will of course institute a draft. They will draft the best men that they can, not the gang bangers, shoplifters, car jackers but those men who have kept their nose clean and are reasonably intelligent. But likely these wars will go one for a decade or two and become meat grinders of our best and brightest young men. I believe that is the intent, to reduce us, the U.S., to a population of criminals, illegal and legal aliens, the worst and dumbest and of course widows of those gallant soldiers fighting in some foreign shithole country. Kind of like Vietnam on steroids. A patriot purge, an intelligence purge, a purge of white men. It’s coming, wait for it, don’t send your sons and husbands to die protecting some other countries borders, that is not patriotism that is falling into the trap. Instead hire mercenaries!! Empty our prisons offering them a pardon to fight. Enlist illegal aliens offering them a green card to fight. Keep our best ad brightest alive.
Yeah right! Who am I kidding. They will do what they want and our youth’s lives will be wasted on a foreign shore or jungle.
I don’t think conservatives will obey a draft. That ship has sailed. Afghanistan killed the military. Go on Twitter. The number of angry vets is astonishing, and I’m glad to see it. Old (and not so old) vets might be the ones who end up saving our country.
I hope you are correct in that thought, BUT, Time marches on, and all of those right-minded Vets are aging. Delays are very costly.
I think Anon got wires crossed as their dystopian image if the future, already happened.
With absurd ROI, and stop gap orders, they used Afganistan, Iraq, Syria etc to do just as you say, and shred our best and brightest, and they have no hope of a draft.
They try a draft, and I will be schooling young men on how to avoid it.
Yes, those disillusioned who are of fighting age would be wiser to form and train *state militias* while the US Constitution exists to protect this very right.
I posit that the Second World War was also a vain attempt at ridding our nation of its fighting generation. Enemies both foreign and domestic dragged us into a world war they didn’t think we could possibly win.
Bob ‘Hope’ sold to that generation what dancing TikTok nurses and blonde bimbos are selling to this one.
“It’s the same old story, same old song and dance, my friends.”
Sobering and very interesting glimpse into the future (if we continue having a future)!
We have enough child bearing women with children in this country illegally to s@ve this population all we have to do is educate, medicate, learn a new language and pay for thier privileges
I’ll posit due to creative accounting there is a huge juvenile population currently living here under the statistical radar, adjunct to your comment about illegals and their progeny.
They may be ‘on the books’ somewhere but just not on the books we’re allowed to see.
With a slowing job market, particularly in unskilled and low-skilled labor markets, it’s going to be a tough row to hoe for future generations as overall job growth plateaus or declines and the bottom end of that market largely disappears to automation and technology.
IMO, only cooking the books keeps things looking optimistic right now; my bet is they’ll dump reality in PDJT’s lap if he beats the cheat in November.
Dunes… I would venture that the “slowing job market” is higher up the chain.
Something to consider. In the state where I live, there is an enormous home schooled population and large families. We’re talking 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 kids. You don’t see them out and about. They have tight knit communities and specific activities with one another. They avoid traditional medicine, many are unvaxxed, and I’m guessing they are not “registered” with a public school system. There would most likely be birth records since the government requires social security numbers for dependents now. They didn’t use to. So, at a glance, it could be that the children are being kept away from society at large, which has become grossly perverse. Statistically, I know that our birth rate is very low in the United States.
Excellent!
Yes and accurate. Amazing how healthy and normal home schooled non-vaxxed are.
The Arizona Republican Party has declared the covid injections to be “biological and technological weapons” and are calling on the Governor to ban and seize all covid injections.
Republicans calling on the installed leftist governor that they helped install to do something beneficial for humanity? Oh, I see what they did there….
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-gmo-rennet-cheese-us-cola/
Nothing to fear….
The side effects are rare…
Very rare….
So rare you can almost pretend they don’t exist.
~ LOOK SQUIRREL ~
So rare that 4 otherwise healthy people that I know have since got cancer.
Its a cost benefit analyses,…
So, if Covid infection is only fatal in 0.001% of cases of infection, how rare do these side effects have to be, for the cost benefit anayses to weigh in in favor of taking the Jab, and thats assuming the jab has any benefit?
If everybody focused on debunking the fake pandemic from the start instead of chasing the origins of the flu, we might not even be talking about this now.
I know what SD’s take on the jab is but I am curious what his take is on the ‘Pandemic’ narrative. Thats the foundational narrative that made the jab possible. Maybe he made it clear before but I dont recall what it was. Do you know what his views are on that?
As per Dr Vladimir Zelenko, who successfully treated thousands of high-risk Covid-19 patients using HCQ and Zinc early in the plandemic, ask yourself three questions:
•Is it safe?
•Is it effective?
•Do I need it?
Spoiler alert: When it comes to experimental mRNA injections, the answer to all three questions is a resounding NO. This is why Dr Zelenko called them “poison death shots.”
realnotrare.com
This ^^^^ absolutely scares the livin you-know-what out of me. 4 years later and they finally admit what many of us have known since December of 2020, when the shots started to roll out in the US. Other countries were ahead of us on the uptake of shots but deaths are ramping up…as are heart attacks and stroked, neuro issues and “turbo” cancers, newly named Hyperprogressive Cancer Disease. Crime against humanity.
As Ive said, in the 1st 3 days, I knew it was a lie. The rules were not logical, and insane. So I resisted completely, their rules and diktats.
Rule 1 of my life:
If Government tells me I need something, I dont need it!
Rule Number 2:
If the Government tells me I cant have something, I buy 20 or 30, perhaps more.
Kept me alive and safe since my Grand Father taught me that one. Words to live by.
My parents lived well into their nineties. No cancers, no heart attacks, no Alzheimers and, most definitely, NO poison death shots.
My dad died from aspiration pneumonia. My mom is very much alive, ambulatory and living in her own apartment.
We will stick with our own genes and avoid the witch doctors, thank you very much.
We also have newly named Sudden Death Syndrome. The American Medical Association should be ashamed of themselves. We were left on our own.
https://www.wionews.com/world/astrazaneca-admits-in-court-document-its-covid-vaccine-can-in-very-rare-cases-cause-complications-716218
A neighbor lady of mine in Mexico got the AZ vax in Aug ’21, after its vax was banned all throughout Europe, and they dumped the last of it in MX.
Ahead had waited to get the “American vaccine”, thinking she would get the best. What she got was fill-body paralysis that is with her to this day.
https://vigilantfox.news/p/mp-andrew-bridgen-im-afraid-covid?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=975571&post_id=144130094&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=pe5ex&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
MP Andrew Bridgen: I’m Afraid COVID Vaccine Deaths Are ‘Going to Be Bigger Than the Holocaust’
https://vigilantfox.news/p/mp-andrew-bridgen-im-afraid-covid?publication_id=975571&post_id=144130094&isFreemail=true&r=pe5ex&triedRedirect=true
Since, they are estimating a minimum of 22 million so far worldwide – it’s already much larger. And they are not even counting miscarriages and stillbirths.
There’s a lot they don’t “count” as an effect of the vax. But life insurance actuary tables don’t lie:
SINCE 2021, THERE HAS BEEN A *FORTY* PERCENT INCREASE IN THE ALL CAUSE MORTALITY RATE.
HELLooooooooooo we have seen a FORTY percent increase in the overall death rate since the “vaccine” rollout.
One thing I wish I would have asked Sundance about would be the prevalence of big AG like Monsanto among the farmers there and big Pharma.
Health and fertility are affected by the poisons (herbicides and GMOs).
Mental health is affected by doctors handing out pills for anything they can invent. Remember restless leg syndrome?
That’s without even looking at fluoride in the water and aluminum in deodorant.
These last decades both have gone out of their way to destroy the country.
The gubernment is not your friend
GMOs are forbidden in Russia as I understand it.
Did you know the origin of the Apple is central Russia. It always made me wonder about Adam and Eve.
I did not, that’s cool.
Origin of the apple, yes.
Origin of an EDIBLE apple, was IIRC the Colonies?
To make cider, fine but to eat, too tart.
I think they are in China as well, but I have not worked in that field for a while. The Chinese were the ones who were buying up all of the NON GMO soybeans at the plant I worked in for a few months. They had been the main customers for years before I got there & the company has now built plants in Iowa & Illinois just to keep up with the demand.
I still see some of the ones who still work for that company. I think I will ask them if that trend continues.
Liqueda,
Go back and scroll thru his replies.
He says the meat is anti-biotic free, etc. and deliscious.
As for Monsanto, I recall reading they and Cargill, maybe ADM (?) OWN all of the produce coming out of Ukraine, but from what Sundance said they have no foothold even, in Russia.
IME, back before things tightened up on chemicals, the migrants and farmworkers who remained in the area appeared to have relatively large families. However, I have no idea how many suffered infertility and/or miscarriages and/or birth defects.
I worked on the concentrated side of the industry, where the pesticides and herbicides were manufactured and can’t point to that specifically as causal in my wife and I not having children but it certainly is possible. We were exposed to a lot of nasty stuff before modern PPE was mandated. I was probably outlier wearing a half-face or conventional respirator back in the 70’s around the stuff, particularly volatile solvents. Still, exposure was far more IMO then than today and some of the stuff we worked with became outlawed and/or Superfund stuff.
As example of incidental contact, imagine cutting Penta (Pentachlorophenol ) or CCA (Chromated copper arsenate) soaked wood and getting sprayed with the droplets. Last year I pulled posts out of the ground that had been in place nearly 40 years and that Penta was still as potent as ever in odor and spray. The place I’d gotten them from back in the 80’s later became a Superfund site.
Pesticides and herbicides? Oh, my.
Nasty stuff.
Yeah, I suspect my poor brain is as chemically injured as it is from crashing many a wheeled conveyance.
mmmm,…recreational drug use, some occupational exposure, almost terminal WW Syndrome (Wrong Wife) and I managed to home birth and home School two…
re “aluminum in deodorant”…. one can use baking soda dusted under arms instead… and IT WORKS!
No children? Can you say experimental injections, mass abortion, rejection of God? The great replacement is not a conspiracy theory – the self-hating white people in power flat out tell you replacing people of European ancestry is the agenda and we are enemies of the state. This is not your government. These are globalists who are bent on genocide. I don’t think we will be able to vote our way out of this. These globalists are inbred insane sociopaths.
They want to go back to the idea of Eden, and just a handful of people populating the world.
In a SENSE, I can agree with the general thrust, I just disagree on the WHO, speaking of which they should be right behind the WEF, followed by UN, International Monetory Fund, EU, and of coarse DC.
“if I ruled the World,..”
Seriously, I’m not seeing the problem.
There were 106 million people in the U.S. in 1920 – a third of what we have now. If our population were reduced to that number……
Umm… it was fine back then.
Same with Japan… They’re packed in like sardines, yet fear any reduction in population.
Umm….. still not seeing the problem.
The only issue at present is maintaining the Ponzi Scheme.
Replacement is the problem, dear
In just a few decades now, it’s very common across America to see entire towns and counties in decay. Across the West it soon will be common to see nations in decay.
A birth rate of 2.1 is required to simply maintain a population level. That means 2 or 3 children for every woman in the country. Right now, in America, only about 42% of women are even having children so that means the women who are having children would need to have between 4 and 5 kids each just to maintain the US population. and so on………. If not, the drop is exponential – an avalanche effect from which there is no recovery.
Italy is there……
Ya totally nailed it , other than maintaining the ponzi scheme there is no problem. Just make sure your not reliant on money from the govt ,pensions etc .
If people don’t have kids their line dies off and your kids will be the future.
One might find this 23 page document produced on population statistics from roughly 1790 through 1945 to be of interest. Apparently it was produced in 1949.
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1949/compendia/hist_stats_1789-1945/hist_stats_1789-1945-chB.pdf
1920, forex, found a rapidly expanding population emerging into a post-war economy in the midst of the industrial revolution and robust legal immigration.
My family would’ve been among those new immigrants counted and they had, at that time when going through Ellis Island in 1918, seven children and would have more here.
We can also examine economic factors and government employment trends when fleshing out the ‘return to 1920’ idea. I think that would be educational.
In reality I’d posit a significant nuclear or biological event would have to occur to prune population that significantly in any short timeframe, from years to perhaps a few decades depending on severity. That presumes zero immigration. Humans are pretty robust. We can review historical population wasting events for guidance.
My family got hit with a relatively minor one in the midst of their escape from Communism, the Spanish Flu pandemic. It got one of their children. However, the rest of the family survived and all went on to live for many, many decades, some like my mom into their 80’s and 90’s. Other than the boys lost in the war, disease and exposure to toxins over the decades didn’t materially reduce their longevity.
I’ll posit that, even if evil forces seek to purposely kill us off, humans will adapt and overcome. Some will die; some will be permanently damaged; some will not be able to reproduce. Still, we’ll survive and again thrive. We’ve done it many, many times throughout human history.
Dunes,
Another area of agreement!
I have maunly set it about CBDC’s and UBID’s, but I actually think it applies to many individual scams coming our of WEF, and to the totality.
I believe these ideas are whay my Dad called a “wet dream” and crudity aside what he MEANT was ideas that simply are impractical, and no amount of messaging, pushing shoving etc. can ever make them practical or “do-able” BUT, those pushing the ideas want them SO BAD, that they continue to push them, thinking “this can work”.
Apply it to their whole plan for World Dominance, and all the parts from CBDC’s to BBB; WHO do they think they are kidding (other than themselves!)
A bunch that have never actually built ANYTHING, are going to tear it all down, so THEY can “Build Back Better?
To Build Back Better one must Flatten Freedom First.
I think their competence lies only in the predicate.
Not sure if we’re supposed to laugh or cry at this one…..
Just appreciate it for what it is….The Truth
FLASHBACK: Every single one. FBI, CIA, dod, CPS, Social Services, they’re ALL IN ON IT.
Not every single individual in the agencies. There are a bulk of individuals from every single operating agency in the government currently who are guilty of severe unforgivable crimes against children.
My parents had 12 children. My wife and I have 2.
I think we are brainwashed into believing that having kids is absurdly expensive. It is not.
God provides. We just have to put forth the effort.
It is expensive… then you got college ( or chef school for one ).
Sure we did put forth the effort… trust me, it was an EFFORT looking back, it was a HUGE EFFORT.
Just two… but we think it was worth every penny, dollar, wrecked car, etc…
…
One thing to notice is that “Latinos” tend to have larger families and they are religious. Here in California we also have quite a few “Californiano” families that have roots from the 1800s. They too have large families.
My late brother-in-law, who married one of the daughters of one such family had 8 kids!
Beautiful Hapa kids ( half Japanese )…. so he did work on ensuring Social Security. 😉
Maybe the future of the US won’t be on us Western Euros… but so long as we get good, hard working people, I have no issues with that.
When my 2 older bros and I were growing up, we did NOT get brand new cars to wreck GIVEN to us by parents living vicariously thru their kids, who wanted them to “have everything we were denied”.
The whole hot rodding era which eventually led to NASCAR was started by teenagers that could not afford New cars, and with parents not stupid enough to buy their 16 y.o. a new car.
We got 10-15 y.o. cars, often not running when purchased, and then we invested blood, sweat and tears into GETTING them running and then, because of that investment, drove them with some degree of CARE.
That considerably lowers expence per kid.
My kids did not get brand new cars either. Long story. Bottom line, growing up I wrecked one car, it was an accident. A learning experience… so I let my kids slide on that one… well, not really slide… they were made to suffer for sure.
They drove with care, but it’s a big place down here, with LOTS of cars and LOTS of people and accidents can happen.
We did not live “vicariously” through our kids and you know nothing about our circumstances, so I would appreciate it if you would tone down the self-righteousness.
NASCAR was started by bootleggers not teenagers.
The Muslim population sure seems to be growing. As does the population of their dhimmis.
Yep, by design. That group wants to rule the world and get rid of all the non-muslims. Period. It is happening in Europe and WILL happen here if something’s not done. Chants of “death to America” in Michigan ( I believe or Minnesota) should not be allowed…send these America-hating mongrels back to where they came from. I have many other thoughts which can not be expressed here but WE the People have ZERO representation in CONgress so…how does this get resolved?
This is actually false. Heavily Muslim Turkey is facing the same decline in fertility as the rest of the world. Like many European countries (Do it for Sweden!), their monetary incentives have failed to slow the decline.
Only a few industrialized countries have held steady. Poland seems to have achieved some success with very hefty financial incentives for large families, plus a Catholic culture that values humans, especially little ones.
The answer to this problem is going to be restoration by 1,000 healings – renewal of religious faith, cheap energy, end of the wage slaving fiat money system, hope for a better future, and an end to the constant fearmongering over “climate change.”
Look into the projections for the Amish segment of the population just after the turn of the next century. They are projected to be the largest demographic in America.
Schoen!
EU Approves Severe Limits on Cash Transactions
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/eu-approves-severe-limits-on-cash-transactions/
Sundance, what do you know about the Deagel report. What I saw was interesting. Curious to know your thoughts about it.
I guess I’m doing my share even though I’m a 67 year-old Grandpa. I had four children. The last of them turned out to be a drug addict son who kept getting his drug addict girlfriend pregnant. We ended up adopting three of our granddaughters when CPS took them from our son and his GF. They are ages 7,8 and 9; apparently in that 4-10 year-old sweet spot. There is actually a 5 year-old grandson from that “union”. We passed on taking him because we’d have been 81 when he graduates from high school. He was adopted by the GF’s Aunt who happens to be much younger (age 46). My girls get to see their relatives from their mom’s side a lot, including their little brother. I’m teaching my three girls to be conservative. They have responded rather well. I am extremely close with the girls and they love their Grandpa. They listen to everything I teach them. They dislike Joe Biden.
I have suspicions that the consequences of the Vaxx will require many such arrangements.
We never know what Heaven will ask of us, we would do well to remain as prepared for stewardship as we are able.
Good on you for your upstanding example.
This is part of their excuse for importing in foreigners that no one asked for.
They don’t want to fix the parts of our system that are causing this, mainly the cities. Packing people in like sardines for economic growth. Judge Dred Mega-Cities is their fever dream.
One of the favorite things they always say as an analog to this is S Korea. S Korea was fine when most of their people were rural and then like magic, they emptied the countryside and forced everyone into the cities. Then they have low birth rates, no way!
All this is caused by the mammon worshippers who have GDP (which is BS) as one of their idols.
If someone can convince me that all this isn’t caused and driven by money, I would listen.
We are part of a system that we didn’t create but perpetuate. This will all be marketed as caring but it’s all about money. Until the root problem is addressed, they will just flood the zone hoping it will work, which it won’t.
Fewer for colleges to get rich off and minds to corrupt? I am totally good with this! Bring on AI to do what these spoiled children will not.
Everyone turns out to be autistic or with deep emotional problems at a very young age. Who wants that?
As we head toward the zenith of this globalists vs nationalist war, the Constitution will become the central focus. How can the Constitution be tightened to prevent it’s abuse? The Constitution was made for ‘a moral people’. Clearly, the immoral people have abused and misused the Constitution.
A 12 part series on the History of the United States Constitution is at…
https://www.bitchute.com/video/FOom4xdtPUla/
We noticed many children in Italy last few trips there. Lots more than previous years. Refreshing to see !
The last time I was in Paris, it was like walking around in the movie “Children of Men.” The only little kids and babies seemed to belong to the gypsies, with a few rare exceptions.
We were on the Malecon in La Pas MX. It’s a seaside walking area maybe 4 miles long, it was a Saturday night. Nothing but normal families, grandparents, teenagers with a smattering of gringos. Kids, lots of well behaved kids. No graffiti, no homeless, no panhandling, no trash. We felt safe and like we were in a 1970 time warp.
Three simple policy changes. And boy is this going to be controversial. And when I write “Boomers,” I don’t mean Vietnam Vets….we need to protect you guys and give you every benefit available. I mean the draft dodging, non-serving Boomers, like the Clintons and the Obamas, for example.
First, no children means no social security check or medicare with the limited exception for married couples unable to conceive. And then talk about how fertility drops for females at 30 years old. This strikes at the heart of feminism, of course, and will be met with an overwhelmingly negative response. But the reality is clear: your children are the ones that are paying or going to be paying social security taxes that support you in retirement. There is no account with your name on it. And there is no promise from the government. That is a lie. If the world doesn’t owe you a job, then the world doesn’t owe you a government check, either. The social security system is the greatest Ponzi scheme ever invented by Democrats. I would also means test the income and assets of social security recipients: there is no reason the grocery store clerk should be paying taxes to a Boomer with a Florida vacation home.
Another point worth mentioning, why should young people bust their humps when the Silent Generation and Baby Boomer Generation piled on $35 trillion in debt that your kids, grand kids, etc. have to pay off? And you want a social security check? That is the Me Generation, for ya! You have permanently lowered your kids standard of living forever. We need a balanced budget Amendment that prohibits expenses exceeding revenues for any reason….want a war? Then raise taxes. That will focus the mind on whether it’s a good idea or not.
The Baby Boomer Generation has gotten their government policy way on immigration and gay “marriage,” too. There are at least 10 million men in the 22-54 age bracket that can’t get jobs (see BLS.gov stats). It is because of multinational companies closing American manufacturing facilities and moving overseas AND importing foreign labor, while women have been encouraged to enter the workforce instead of starting families. There is also the constant barrage of political nonsense like “toxic masculinity” where men are fingered as the cause of everyone’s issues and the female dominated HR department is loath to hire men. There is so much more competition for jobs in the US now than what the Boomers faced, although the Boomers did face the first waves of plant closings/outsourcing in the 1980s. And by encouraging gays to marry, it discourages child rearing in natural families. Look at the stats on family formation once sodomy was legalized by SCOTUS until today and there is an obvious downward trend in family formation. I don’t view the increase in self indulgent behavior as a coincidence.
The second policy change has to do with unemployed people. If a woman makes the choice to have a family at 22 years old, raises the kids with Dad and they’re able to send them into the world as productive citizens, then that woman at age 45-50 should be able to get first dibs on any job opening over anyone that already has a job. The things that mother has learned about work ethic, management, scheduling, the political dangers of the PTA…she’s a desirable candidate for a lot of jobs! But, to be fair, it should apply to men, as well. The unemployed should get first consideration, followed by military veterans and if you’re an unemployed military veteran, you are first in line, my friends. No one is born a veteran, it’s a choice, and one that should be honored and revered over all other candidates.
And finally, the third policy change is this: you don’t make it here, you can’t sell it here. All foreign labor visas should be cancelled until the unemployment rate is 0.0% and then we can take a look at foreign labor. I know, I know, landscapers can’t find anyone to work…well, how about letting those on welfare keep their benefits for a year while holding a job, any job, for 40 hours/week for a year. And then wean them off of the social safety net. Right now, these guys aren’t even incentivized to try. I would also eliminate the federal minimum wage…the costs to business in training people who haven’t worked is enormous but you owe it to your fellow citizens to make a difference in these people’s lives. What you do to the least of us, you do unto Him.
Changing those three things will result in an enormously positive societal outcome. Maybe a little rough on the “rich” and business owners like myself but the Silent Generation and Baby Boomers broke the contract that America is the land of opportunity for its citizens. And who better to tighten their belts for the benefit of more men working, more Moms, and fewer veteran suicides because they’re employed.
There is plenty to do, of course, but the greatest welfare program is a job.
Would concur except for who you choose to blame for all those ills.
Okay, now do Gen X. Extra points if you include cites from disgruntled employers.
Hey! Leave us Gen Xers alone. We’re in hiding.
You guys have enough problems already to deal with.
I think you guys will make it though.
You guys have been given a stacked deck to deal with.
Don’t be OVERCOMED!
We all have obstacles that can be defeated.
Over, under, sideways down.
PA Republican is, either rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic, as water is washing across the deck, or is perhaps suggesting where to put the deck chairs, if when the tiatanic is ever raised from the ocean depths, repaired/refurbished, and put back into service.
IMHO..
You’re winning so don’t go down with the vanquished.
Meant to be under “Bramertamer’s” 5:39 pm comment on page 1.
Our 5 grandchildren are breaking the mold of woke airheads. All are young adults, 4 of which decided no college. Grandson #1 got a job in the AG industry in California, got married, bought a house and just had twins. His sister has started her own business as a personal trainer and doing very well with it. She is married and they have a 3 year old. Two others moved away from the West to us here in MS. Both work full time and are growing nest eggs before starting serious relationships. These 4 kids were raised by conservative parents and have continued along that path. Our youngest is the only one going the community college path, at least for this first year out of high school. She is also holding down a job.
As a side note, our granddaughter in-law worked and paid her own way thru college, no loans, no help. She a head of HR in a large company now.
These are the younger generation holding the conservative line in a very woke world. Here in MS I see this same thing with the kids here. Our public schools are “classical education” including Bible study. While there are families being built and children being born hope of a return to a Godly, moral country is not lost.
There are more of us than them!
Yes, but they are obnoxiously LOUDER than we.
Lol, yes they are that.
One of the reasons is ever increasing taxes and costs. How many women would stay home and raise children if the income taxes were slashed in half? There is also the wants of many middle class couples that exceed the needs with no way to pay for them other than both work. And Oh so many other reasons.
You mean the birth dearth is engineered?
Oh, no Maquis,…say it ain’t SO!
major sarc!
😏
So many young people can’t afford to have children these days, especially in the working classes. From what I see the college educated can afford it and have the money to spoil their kids.
I think the correlation is based on income. It’s expensive to raise children so it takes some wealth to have kids. There used to be a correlation between education and income, but nowadays, with the Leftist corruption of our university curriculum, I’m not so sure.
In the middle, the “lower middle class”… well, it’s hard to have kids…. just to have a place to live!
Then you got the low end… maybe they’re not “working families”? But there sure seem to be lots of “Government Cheese” families having lots of kids.
Futhermore, if you do a break down based on ethnicity, you notice that “Latino working families” have lots of kids too, whereas Whites and Asians have smaller families ( my late brother in law being a notable exception to this proposed rule ).
The irony is, that “raised right conservative” young couples, BEING “rrc” would never think to “game” a system which is obviously corrupt and stacked against them.
Such is the plight of honest men or women in an age of corruption.
Some just do not understand honor.
My life’s observation is that conservatives don’t game the game… but liberals do.
Like when Obola The Magnificent decide to socialize college financial aid… we were forced to provide a lot more information about our income… I recall talking to some “officials” -even the IRS- about this and was informed that people were cheating a lot.
Huh? Prior to the Gov. stepping in, the financial aid thing was based on private banks and all they did was check your credit history… and then they took us at our word. We didn’t lie.
So, all I can say is that liberals cheat the system.
Sundance-
Where in the US did you get the impression that we don’t have kids? If you go to urban areas, where the “hip” youngsters live, you might not see kids, but out in suburbia, we got lots of them.
Russia, being an European style nation, has people living in urban cities, whereas in the US you will find the families out in suburbia (and rural communities as well ).
Which sort of begs for a non-sequitur observation…. American cities are terrible places to raise children.
Here’s a snapshot…. of my city correlated with the US. Note it’s ~22% of people under 18.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/irvinecitycalifornia,US/PST045223
OK — I’m a “Boomer” 🙂 And I’m oldest of 8 kids my parents had. And my childhood memories are full of playing with kids in the neighborhood who were part of families with 4,7, 9 kids. It was RARE to know another kid who was on only child, or only one of 2.
Today — It is RARE to know a set of parents who have more that 2 kids. Extremely rare. It is COMMON to know lots of couples who have NONE. Almost every family we know with kids have only 1 or 2.
For those interested: wife and I married over 50 years — despite lots of trying, we never had any [each of us had a biological “situation” that almost eliminated fertility — the combination was determinate]. Meanwhile, my siblings had none [never married]; 3; 2; 1; 3, and 2. Youngest died as a kid.
For what it’s worth 🙂
“Trouble having a kid”
Oh boy…. when my wife’s doctor suggested that Yours Truly might have to be “tested”…. I took it as an insult.
Within four months she got pregnant. 😉
Ay Caramba! The Asian Doctor insulted me…
Nice clean serene photos Sundance
“… it is quite noticeable how American children, in the 4 to 10-year-old age range, have seemingly disappeared. ”
They say upwards of 40% of children are born to single parent households in America (mine being one of them since her infancy…18 years). No one can afford to have children anymore… even with dual income families… especially with a completely broken public education system. The ability to afford private education, even with School Choice, people are simply making the choice to not bring children into this world.
Plus with marital unions so disparaged with women failing to be women and men failing to be men
A return to God is needed!
The primary expansion of families is among the migrant (aka illegals) who are living off of the government/taxpayers. Especially of the Islamic religion. This is the plan to expand the caliphate. To the left this is the expansion of their voting base – the ends justify the means of the open borders. Just ask the Scots/Irish/Brits.
I have other thoughts on this but will keep it to myself.
Graph of US birth rate 1800 – 2020.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1037156/crude-birth-rate-us-1800-2020/
Here in the suburbs of Vancouver I live in a community quite densely populated with kids and young families. New ice rinks and recreational parks are always under construction.
At the same time there are many senior residences and facilities.
It seems it’s the middle demographic that’s not as large.
Over the years I’ve lived in half a dozen locations in the Vancouver area. From a downtown townhouse, to various houses, condos and adult townhouse complexes. Metropolitan areas to further suburbs. Trying to stay ahead in the real estate market while adjusting to age and job changes.
As seems the case in most cities, young families are financially forced to affordable suburbs while the elite neighborhoods are populated by the usual suspects. Often in gigantic houses with few if any kids.
Sorry I have a problem with demographic. Especially what eye see and numerical counting. Just this month the Census Bureau said it had under counted children ( over a million, their estimate ) in the 2020 census? Last summer, I visited my sister in a medium size city 800,000 or so, went to a park and saw quite a few women and baby strollers. As i remember 12 to 15. Tons of kids ( 4 to 8 ) playing on the play equipment. That is just what my eyes saw and honestly that is not saying much, but it is true.
We are now up to 254 million white people in the USA and Russian pop. 147 million, with 190 ethnic groups! I do not know what this means they are after all government numbers?
Do they want to kill us all, no doubt about it, then they can have their little robot world fantasy. Science Fiction runs through their minds.
Is Atlas Shrugging?
The trans movement us being supported by Gates and Soros, especially the puberty blockers for kids. These kids will become sterile. In this way, trans supports the depopulation agenda.
The recent Cass Review in Great Britain has finally addressed the science and things are glaring:
Almost all kids with gender dysphoria have comorbidities: sexual abuse, autism, OCD, etc.When these comorbidities are accounted for, gender dysphoric kids are no more likely to commit suicide than kids who have the same comorbidities but are not gender dysphoric.There is positive proof that puberty blockers do NOT help gender dysphoria.What puberty blockers will do is stop normal processes; it is like automatic menopause, hormonally.Almost all children who start on puberty blockers will become sterile.
In other words, all the emotional blackmail that schools put parents through–“better a live trans than a dead child”–is actually wrong. This is why the British NHS has put a stop to puberty blockers for treatment for gender dysphoria for children.
For info on this:
I. The Cass review of gender identity services marks a return to reason and evidence – it must be defended
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/26/cass-review-gender-identity-services-report
II. The Cass report for download:
https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/
III. A great (and enraging) talk on the Cass Report.
Thank you for the clear summary.
Sundance if you want to help solve this problem, then please have a password protected thread where we can discuss good areas of the country for like-minded Treepers to move to that are safe enough to put down roots and make babies.
It should even have a secret title to not attract the evil ones, in fact, one that would turn them off and make them pass by.
I’ve got teenagers and great fear about my neck of the woods up here.
My greatest concern is that my kids surely can’t have large families up here in this area.
There are so many Leftwing Loons up here from surrounding states invading us, that it’s likely only a matter of time before we sink. I doubt they’ll even find good partners at this point given the amount of tattoo’d freaks around.
I’ve raised them to do their part, but where?
I don’t want them to have to flee at some point just to raise a family surrounded by good people.
I certainly don’t want them to have to uproot their families like I feel I may have to do.
But where are these areas?
It’s no easy thing to pack up families and move across the nation to places you’ve never even been before in this day and age. Being the stranger in any area has risks today.. People out there hate Blue staters even those of us with our heads screwed on straight.
This is definitely an issue that requires help and support from others out there blessed enough to not be in areas going down the drain- despite a lifetime of effort *sigh*
I strongly disagree.
IMHO, you are proposing “Private Idahos”…
My recommendation is to do everything out in the open. People of conservative and libertarian beliefs should work together to confront what we see as the destructive efforts of the Globalist CABAL and their tools, the Progressive Movement.
This is why I’m dismayed when I see stuff about the nuts out in California, or the crazy people by the Coasts, etc. This is playing right into the Left’s Politics of Meaning.. wherein they practice Divide And Conquer.
United we stand. We don’t hide.
There’s lots of children in America now. However, they look 25, some already have beards, and they are grouped using the term “unaccompanied minor”.