{"id":304,"date":"2011-10-27T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T17:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2011-10-28T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T18:54:00","slug":"europe-heads-over-the-cliff-the-abortion-immigration-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Europe Heads Over the Cliff & the Abortion-Immigration Link"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Labor Force Growth in the Developed World<\/p><\/div>\n

A few hours ago, the New York Times authoritatively announced<\/a>\u00a0that the European Union has staved off financial disaster. \u00a0German Prime Minister Angela Merkel is hailed as a hero by many in the European media! \u00a0The long and the short of it is, they are giving Greece a break on some of its debt. \u00a0Now, the EU can go back to growing their economy in peace …<\/p>\n

Do not believe a single word of it.<\/p>\n

The European Union is heading over an economic cliff. \u00a0And no one wants to admit it.<\/p>\n

They are going where only Japan has ever gone before: first into entrepreneurship decline (predominantly people aged 25 – 45), then into labor force decline (predominantly people 18 – 65), and ultimately into population decline (no explanation needed).<\/p>\n

Japan was the first<\/a>\u00a0to go all the way through the process. \u00a0Now, the declining population has resulted in declining real estate value. \u00a0Every family with a house or business with property is finding that its most fundamental investment (real estate) is becoming more worthless every year. \u00a0The aging population has caused Japan to have a debt to Gross Domestic Product ratio of 197.5%. \u00a0They have almost twice as much debt as their entire economy produces in a year. \u00a0And they are paying interest on all that debt.<\/p>\n

Europe is walking down the same path.<\/p>\n

What caused the decline in birth rates pushing the developed world towards population decline? \u00a0Was it the invention of the Pill, a common belief?<\/p>\n

No. \u00a0John Mueller analyzed this claim in his excellent book Redeeming Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since the introduction of contraception, the pregnancy rates have remained steady.<\/p>\n

Contraceptives have not decreased the number of unwanted pregnancies at all. \u00a0This was actually predicted<\/a>\u00a0before-handed by\u00a0both Planned Parenthood and the Catholic Church. \u00a0However, since Roe v. Wade, roughly one in three pregnancies end in abortion. \u00a0The entire decrease in babies and the resulting aging of the population is due exclusively to abortion.<\/p>\n

But the entire developed world (except a few outliers like Poland and Ireland) has legal abortion. \u00a0What makes the United States different? \u00a0Why aren’t we going over the demographic cliff, too? \u00a0Does something set us apart from Japan, China, and Europe?<\/p>\n

Yes. \u00a0Japan, China, and the nations of Europe were built on ethnic nationalism — the idea that because they share the same culture and heritage, they should act in collective self-interest. \u00a0The United States was rather founded on the ideas found in the Declaration of Independence. \u00a0Catholic British thinker G.K. Chesterton said: “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed.” \u00a0Because we were founded on a creed, immigration is a rich part of American heritage. \u00a0Immigrants who believe the creed can truly become Americans. \u00a0The same is not as true of an immigrant to an ethnic nation like France. \u00a0But here waves of \u00a0immigrants — the Germans, the Irish, the Italians, and the Latinos — have entered this country and now serve as a shield against the effects of abortion. \u00a0Japan has no legal immigration while Europe’s immigrants are insufficient to stabilize the median age.<\/p>\n

Does this mean that the United States was not hurt economically by abortion?<\/p>\n

Absolutely not. \u00a0When Roe v. Wade was legalized in 1973, the workforce did not immediately feel the adverse effects of abortion. \u00a0The United States last reformed its immigration laws in 1986 (which included the Reagan amnesty for the 3 million illegal immigrants here at that time). \u00a0However, in the early 1990s, the economy began to feel the pinch. \u00a0A third of the workers that would have entered the marketplace at that time had been aborted. \u00a0The dearth of young workers spawned the first waves of illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n

Now, decades after Roe, the median age of whites in the U.S. has aged<\/a>\u00a0to 41. \u00a0However, the median age for Latinos in the country is 27. \u00a0The US business community has become fiercely pro-immigration — lobbying for non-enforcement of punitive immigration laws, increased guest worker passes, and increased levels of legal immigration. \u00a0As the US ages (albeit more slowly than the rest of the developed world), the marketplace is increasingly ravenous for young workers and 20 million illegal immigrants currently live in the country, work, and pay taxes. \u00a0Latinos also have significantly higher birth rates than whites.<\/p>\n

Thus, when GOP Presidential candidates insist on “controlling the border first,” they are being naive or\u00a0disingenuous. \u00a0Controlling the border first would deny a ravenous market demand for young workers utterly unsatiated by current levels of legal immigration. \u00a0They might as well say they are intent on “controlling the market first.” \u00a0The only way that controlling the border would be affordable or even desirable would be to first adjust the levels of legal immigration to account for the demographic shift caused by abortion.<\/p>\n

Then on to the big battle of overturning Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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