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On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:43:19 -0400, Nancy Young
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> On 9/11/2013 2:55 AM, Jeßus wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:37:36 +0800, JBurns >
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> >
> >> That is still happening in developed countries too. Think about your
> >> own country. Who is having the most children? The result is a large
> >> proportion of the population that are uneducated, uncouth and quite
> >> prepared to live off crime or the public purse. I know this is
> >> happening in my country.

> >
> > Yes, the 'baby bonus'... I call it the Harvey Norman voucher.
> >

> Unless things have changed, in my state you do not get additional
> money for children you have after being on welfare and you must
> attend job training. I believe other states have done the same.
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The extra money thing stopped years ago when taxpayers and government
finally realized they were perpetuating poverty instead of helping
through rough times.


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On 9/11/2013 1:26 AM, sf wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:26:50 -0600, casa contenta > wrote:
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>> On 9/10/2013 3:25 PM, sf wrote:
>>> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 05:53:06 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 08:50:34 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Let's face it - we are too many people fouling a too small nest. Where will the breaking point be?
>>>>
>>>> Nearly every significant problem we face is due to overpopulation.
>>>>
>>>> Where will the breaking point will be is a good question... we are
>>>> still a *long* way from the point where most people will accept that
>>>> we can't keep on breeding at the rate that we currently are, or even
>>>> giving it a second's thought for that matter.
>>>
>>> So we really do need a WWIII or a huge plague. I thought AIDS was
>>> going to be the one, but modern medicine worked on it faster than I
>>> expected.
>>>

>> And don't forget Ebola, that was supposed to be a possible extinction
>> plague as well.
>>
>> I think if Fukushima isn't contained, that might come as closed as
>> anything since the last big meteorite strikes near the Tertiary period.
>>

> You might be correct. Either that or we'll all glow in the dark.
>

I suspect it'll be more like bone cancer. I can't recall which of the
two is worse there, cesium or strontium - very scary stuff at any rate.
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> I suspect it'll be more like bone cancer.


Bona cancer... that's you. A Usenet malignancy. Right, mixatorium John Smith
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:43:19 -0400, Nancy Young
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>On 9/11/2013 2:55 AM, Jeßus wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:37:36 +0800, JBurns >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> That is still happening in developed countries too. Think about your
>>> own country. Who is having the most children? The result is a large
>>> proportion of the population that are uneducated, uncouth and quite
>>> prepared to live off crime or the public purse. I know this is
>>> happening in my country.

>>
>> Yes, the 'baby bonus'... I call it the Harvey Norman voucher.
>>

>Unless things have changed, in my state you do not get additional
>money for children you have after being on welfare and you must
>attend job training. I believe other states have done the same.


Wish we would do that here.
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:26:00 -0500, "Groupkillas \(R\)"
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> Bona cancer... that's you.


So, the best you can do is name calling?

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Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2013-09-10 5:26 PM, sf wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:25:52 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
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>>> If they can't feed the kids
>>> they have they should not have more.

>>
>> How can they if they are not educated about over population and have
>> no access to birth control?
>>

>
>
> It isn't always about lack of access to birth control. If they are too
> stupid to figure it out and they keep reproducing, and reproducing more
> of their own mentality,I can't get too excited about supporting them.
> Think about the repercussions of the smartest, best educated and most
> capable people having the lowest birth rates while the dumbest, least
> educated and least capable of taking care of themselves are their
> offspring are reproducing at 5 times that rate.


I do think about that, and it is a quandary. Also, countries with low
birth rates have to import people for jobs (and, presumably, to thus
support the economy too).
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