Population

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(07-16-2017, 03:06 PM)Dill Wrote: There would be some resistance to that from Catholics and Big Pharma, not to mention a certain party that hates Big Government. 

Your reflection on population growth is interesting.  

One concern I have about closing immigration is that many immigrants know how to work hard, often for less pay. That is important in a country where fewer and fewer young have the immigrants' drive and discipine. There will always be people who welcome immigrants because of that.  

I think Catholics' main resistance is being forced to provide it for their employees. I don't think Hobby Lobby or whatever cared if their employees used it, they just didn't want to be forced to directly provide/pay for it. If it was something they didn't provide and instead was just a completely separate thing from employment that anyone could go get then I feel like there would be much less religious push back.

Big Pharma would likely ***** regardless.

I also don't like big government, but as I said... it would be interesting to see the cost for it if theoretically the government would mass produce enough generic birth control for every woman in the country to be able to have it for free. I mean, I saw something recently where Denmark is going to pay for birth control for Africa, to try and reduce overpopulation sending tons of migrants looking for food/work into Europe.

So yeah, not a big fan of government getting involved too much, but if it was purely a optional choice on if someone wanted to use it, I wonder how many fewer children in foster homes, homeless children, and hungry children we would have in this country. Might be worth a look and some number crunching at least.

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As for the "drive and discipline", that goes away immediately one generation later. Then you're back to kids without drive or discipline, but more of them now. I think that is a separate problem that needs to be addressed, stemming from the whole "you need college" scam.

(07-16-2017, 05:45 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: When you asked about limiting immigration I thought you meant legal immigration.

I meant both. Legal immigration, H2B visas, illegal immigration, etc.