Monday, August 27, 2007

They don't have a care in the world...yet they couldn't care less

Hey, I have a question...why is it...if I am French, Dutch, or any European for that matter, and I have my health care paid for, my education paid for and I am not allowed to work more than 35 hour work weeks, and I get 6 weeks of vacation, a year off from work when I have a kid...basically I would have it pretty good...nice n' easy..little stress...yet despite it all...I am more likely not to have kids??? It sounds like it would be pretty cheap to have a kid in one these countries...right? What is the connection between a socialized government and a declining population? Why are we always hearing about women aren't having babies in these countries. I don't get it.

4 comments:

Lone Ranger said...

Socialism looks pretty good -- on paper. But the fact is, people who live below the poverty line in this country generally live better than the European middle class.

But there is one segment of European society that has no problem reproducing -- Muslims.

They're doomed.

Mark said...

Could be the prospective mothers have seen what so much governemnt intervention can do and refuse to bring children into that kind of world.

Coincidentally, I crated a blog entry about why Communism can't work today, before I read your post.


I concluded basically the same thing LR did. It looks good on paper, but doesn't work in reality.

Lone Ranger said...

Another thing is that Europeans are too sophisticated to have large families. Being socialists, they are much more gullible than American capitalists, so they buy into all those environmentalists who say people are bad for the earth and any family that has more than one child is evil and selfish.

Jim O said...

And...who needs a family when you have the government to take care of everything for ya?