CNS News reports on a very disturbing story. (H/T ECM)
Excerpt:
The birth rate in the United States hit an all-time low in 2011, according to a report released this month by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The 2011 preliminary number of U.S. births was 3,953,593, 1 percent less (or 45,793 fewer) births than in 2010; the general fertility rate (63.3 per 1,000 women age 15-44 years) declined to the lowest rate ever reported for the United States,” said the report.
More than 40 percent of all babies born in the country last year, the report said, were born to unmarried women.
[…]Although the percentage of babies born to unmarried women was highest among teens, the percentage of babies delivered by unmarried women of older ages increased from 2010 to 2011.
This is disturbing for many reasons, but one of those reasons is surely that Social Security will go bankrupt faster if there are not enough replacement workers paying into the system. People like me who are paying for Social Security today will never get back what we paid into it. There just aren’t enough people being born to pay out those benefits. I don’t think that fatherless children will do as well at earning income, either, which is just going to make the system go bankrupt faster.
Part of the problem, I think, is that when the economy goes south, fewer men will marry and take on the burden of having and raising children. In order to enter into the roles of husband and father, a man has to be earning a decent income and keeping what he earns. When the deficits are over a trillion dollars a year, and the job market stinks, men look at the responsibilities of marriage and parenting and they say no. This is another reason why women should not be voting for Obama.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Ah, but this assumes that people will take a long-term view. Very few people do, men and women alike.
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I find this to be good news. We can easily finance many of the social programs like SS if we cut back our defense budget which totals more than the next 10 countries combined – there’s a double benefit in that we no longer would have to spend the additional money on interest from borrowing to finance a defense industry we obviously can’t afford.
As for the long term view – infinitely increasing a human population on a finite planet is not taking the long term view. Our consumption levels already are starting to exceed what our planet can handle. We eschew recycling, reuse, and self-control while simultaneously cutting research in the sciences while relying in increases in efficiency and replacement to maintain our lifestyles. If our goal is to maintain the American lifestyle as it exists today, then decreasing population is taking the long-term view.
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