Support Social Security – Have More Pets
In 1994, Americans spent $17 billion on their pets. That’s quite a bit of cash. But, it seems we can’t get enough of our beloved canine or familial feline. In 2010, we spent $48 billion. It’s not just that there are sick people who need care or hungry people who need fed or – better yet – lost people who need the gospel. How far would $48 billion go for more important purposes? Today, Americans have more pets than we do children, at a ratio of 4:1! What you spend on your pets is your business, but the cumulative effect of this warped attitude has put the United States in a bad position.
We are killing our children and pampering our pets. No wonder social security and medicare are in the red!
Yesterday, I wrote of Dr. Rodney Stark’s comments and observations on America’s demographic problem. In another book published recently – What to Expect When No One’s Expecting – Jonathan Last details our coming population implosion. For people who enjoy their own culture, this population implosion is the tolling of the death bell.
Japan and Italy’s fertility rate (which ought to be in the 2.05 to 2.1 range to maintain the status quo) is at 1.4. That means that in 45 years – when I’m 97 – each country’s population will be cut in half. The bad news is that no modern country has ever had a consistently below-replacement level fertility rate. If the rate is below replacement level for very long, the culture enters into a spiral that it cannot exit.
We – as Americans – rightly criticize China’s “one-child” policy, primarily because they enforce it through abortions. China’s birth rate is between 1.9 and 1.3. They are a dying society. By 2050 (when I’m 78), there will only be two workers for every retiree in China. Can you say “civil war?” That is unsustainable.
But in America, the left has waged its own “one-child” (or, better yet, “no child”) policy for several decades. In the 1800s, white Americans had a TFR of 7.04; black Americans had a TFR of 7.9. Now, the average is 2.1. What happened between then and now?
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Abortion, obviously, has played a major role as well. It has lowered the fertility rate by 4% among whites and 13% among blacks. Homosexuality and its concomitant policy of homosexual “marriage” also war against the family structure.
Do you think all of this talk is only academic? When Social Security was started in 1937, only 53,236 Americans were benefited. The cost: $1.3 million. By 2006, the number grew to 49 million people, costing tax payers $546 billion.
In 1940, 35.4 million people were in the work force, supporting 222,000 people in the retirement system. That’s a ratio of 160:1. Due to casualties in the war on the family, by 2010, there were only 2.9 workers for each retiree! That is just to sustain social security! Medicare is another set of statistics. That means for me to retire and live off social security, the government will have to tax Jewell and Ana plus one more kid just to support me. Rachel is on her own!
Within the last few years, the left has portrayed conservatives as waging a “war on women.” Considering the policies that fight against families, it is more accurate to discuss a “war on families” and we know who supports it and who their commander in chief is. Maybe they can find a way to get FICA out of Fido and Fluffy.
Once again, God’s way is always the best way. Jesus said, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate” (Matthew 19:4-6).
The “oldest command in the book?” “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” (Genesis 1:28). God knew what He was talking about.
–Paul Holland
