posted on Dec, 3 2007 @ 03:39 PM
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3. Shifting Demographics of Western Civilization. Most countries in the Western world have stopped breeding. For a civilization obsessed with sex,
this is remarkable. Maintaining a steady population requires a birth rate of 2.1. In Western Europe, the birth rate currently stands at 1.5, or 30
percent below replacement. In 30 years there will be 70 to 80 million fewer Europeans than there are today. The current birth rate in Germany is 1.3.
Italy and Spain are even lower at 1.2. At that rate, the working age population declines by 30 percent in 20 years, which has a huge impact on the
economy.
When you don’t have young workers to replace the older ones, you have to import them. The European countries are currently importing Moslems. Today,
the Moslems comprise 10 percent of France and Germany, and the percentage is rising rapidly because they have higher birthrates. However, the Moslem
populations are not being integrated into the cultures of their host countries, which is a political catastrophe. One reason Germany and France
don’t support the Iraq war is they fear their Moslem populations will explode on them. By 2020, more than half of all births in the Netherlands will
be non-European.
The huge design flaw in the post-modern secular state is that you need a traditional religious society birth rate to sustain it. The Europeans simply
don’t wish to have children, so they are dying. In Japan, the birthrate is 1.3. As a result, Japan will lose up to 60 million people over the next
30 years. Because Japan has a very different society than Europe, they refuse to import workers. Instead, they are just shutting down. Japan has
already closed 2000 schools, and is closing them down at the rate of 300 per year. Japan is also aging very rapidly. By 2020, one out of every five
Japanese will be at least 70 years old. Nobody has any idea about how to run an economy with those demographics
Europe and Japan, which comprise two of the world’s major economic engines, aren’t merely in recession, they’re shutting down. This will have a
huge impact on the world economy, and it is already beginning to happen. Why are the birthrates so low? There is a direct correlation between
abandonment of traditional religious society and a drop in birth rate, and Christianity in Europe is becoming irrelevant. The second reason is
economic. When the birth rate drops below replacement, the population ages. With fewer working people to support more retired people, it puts a
crushing tax burden on the smaller group of working age people. As a result, young people delay marriage and having a family. Once this trend starts,
the downward spiral only gets worse. These countries have abandoned all the traditions they formerly held in regards to having families and raising
children.
The U.S. birth rate is 2.0, just below replacement. We have an increase in population because of immigration When broken down by ethnicity, the Anglo
birth rate is 1.6 (same as France) while the Hispanic birth rate is 2.7. In the U.S., the baby boomers are starting to retire in massive numbers. This
will push the dependency ratio from 19 to 38 over the next 10 to 15 years. This is not as bad as Europe, but still represents the same kind of trend.
Western civilization seems to have forgotten what every primitive society understands; you need kids to have a healthy society. Children are huge
consumers. Then they grow up to become taxpayers. That’s how a society works, but the post-modern secular state seems to have forgotten that. If
U.S. birth rates of the past 20 to 30 years had been the same as post-World War II, there would be no Social Security or Medicare problems. The
world’s most effective birth control device is money. As society creates a middle class and women move into the workforce, birth rates drop. Having
large families is incompatible with middle class living. The quickest way to drop the birth rate is through rapid economic development. After World
War II, the U.S. instituted a $600 tax credit per child. The idea was to enable mom and dad to have four children without being troubled by taxes.
This led to a baby boom of 22 million kids, which was a huge consumer market that turned into a huge tax base. However, to match that incentive in
today’s dollars would cost $12,000 per child.
China and India do not have declining populations. However, in both countries, there is a preference for boys over girls, and we now have the
technology to know which is which before they are born. In China and India, many families are aborting the girls. As a result, in each of these
countries there are 70 million boys growing up who will never find wives. When left alone, nature produces 103 boys for every 100 girls. In some
provinces, however, the ratio is 128 boys to every 100 girls.
The birth rate in Russia is so low that by 2050 their population will be smaller than that of Yemen. Russia has one-sixth of the earth’s land
surface and much of its oil. You can’t control that much area with such a small population. Immediately to the south, you have China with 70 million
unmarried men a real potential nightmare scenario for Russia.
4. Restructuring of American Business. The fourth major transformation involves a fundamental restructuring of American business. Today’s business
environment is very complex and competitive. To succeed, you have to be the best, which means having the highest quality and lowest cost. Whatever
your price point, you must have the best quality and lowest price. To be the best, you have to concentrate on one thing. You can’t be all things to
all people and be the best. A generation ago, IBM used to make every part of their computer. Now Intel makes the chips, Microsoft makes the software,
and someone else makes the modems, hard drives, monitors, etc. IBM even outsources their call center. Because IBM has all these companies supplying
goods and services cheaper and better than they could do it themselves, they can make a better computer at a lower cost. This is called a fracturing
of business. When one company can make a better product by relying on others to perform functions the business used to do itself, it creates a complex
pyramid of companies that serve and support each other.