Post: #26

(05-11-2016 02:42 PM)rw95 Wrote:  Realistically, I think the social fabric of the United States is far too decayed to ever be repaired. Feminism has left its mark on the American female, and there's no putting the toothpaste back into the tube. The American family is dead.

With respect, this is just not true. Deep down, people know that family is the foundation of everything good. Just look at the hispanics. They "outperform" on all measures of health and well-being, despite their collective relative poverty and lack of education, precisely because of their traditional family values. Feminism has had a terrible effect, to be sure, but the pendulum is swinging back in the right direction, no pun intended. Statistically proven that children raised in fatherless homes are horribly ill-prepared to realize their full potential. People know this has to be true, and feminism and the SJWs cannot distort the truth much longer. People are awakening, and Trump is the lightning rod drawing their collective support. These are good times, and things are on the upswing.

Post: #27

There is an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about the continuing "baby lull" in the US. Birth rates have bounced back only a little from the recession lows, and are still well below 2007 levels (which themselves were just at replacement level):

Baby Lull Promises Growing Pains for Economy

Quote:The U.S. is experiencing a baby lull that looks set to last for years, a shift demographers say will likely ripple through the U.S. economy and have an impact on everything from maternity wards to federal social programs.

U.S. births have edged up modestly since 2013, a trend likely to continue when last year’s official federal figures are scheduled to come out in June. That has stemmed a sharp drop in child bearing that started with the onset of the recession in 2007.

But behind that sliver of good news are more-worrisome signs that the U.S. may not soon return to its pre-recession average of about two babies for every adult woman. Some demographers have pared their forecasts for future births because an expected post-recession baby boom has been smaller than anticipated.

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Demographic Intelligence, a Charlottesville, Va., firm that forecasts birth trends, projects there were about 4 million babies born in the U.S. in 2015, up slightly from the 3.99 million babies born the previous year. The total fertility rate—a snapshot that measures the number of births the average woman will have during her lifetime—is expected to rise to 1.87 in 2015 from 1.86 the previous year, according to the firm. It says its projections, which rely on unemployment rates, consumer-confidence measures and other variables, have been about 99% accurate in recent years.
ENLARGE

That is well below the relatively strong fertility rates that started during the late 1980s and lasted until 2007, when the total fertility rate peaked at 2.12 babies per woman. The lower rates since then translate to about 3.4 million fewer births between 2008 and 2015, according to Kenneth Johnson, a demographer at the University of New Hampshire.

“Everything is slower than we expected,” said Sam Sturgeon, president of Demographic Intelligence. His firm recently called an end to the quarter-century era when Americans experienced exceptionally high fertility rates for a developed nation, and he predicts that the total fertility rate won’t go above 1.9 babies per woman for the next five years or longer.

A fertility rate of just 1.87 in the US is ridiculously low -- not quite at Japan or Korea or Western Europe levels, but well below replacement and well below what the US typically has and what we had just 10 years ago.

Trump should speak about the Obama-Clinton baby lull and how people are not having babies in the US because they have no confidence and no belief in the future. We need new energies, a new America full of promise for its families that will usher in the #TrumpBabyBoom. This will accomplished by taking care of America First and jump-starting our economy, but also by specific policies that will help Americans have big and successful families. Any policy ideas that help make the #TrumpBabyBoom a reality will be on the table.

The baby lull is an expression of the fatigue and stagnation of the Obama-Clinton years -- the result of the same tired Clinton ideas. Trump will bring in a new get-it-done pragmatic brilliance and new energies; and Americans will be getting a lot of baby-making done in the Trump presidency. It's going to be a fun time in this country again.

Share this with Trump people online, particularly Bill Mitchell.

EDIT:

Here is a plot of US fertility rates and births by year:



You can see that the only time fertility rates were as low as they are now was during the "malaise" period of the '70s. That was routed by Reagan's "Morning in America", and in the same way the Obama-Clinton baby lull will be routed by the #TrumpBabyBoom.

Post: #28

I posted this meme I put together originally in the Leftist-triggering Memes thread but figured I'd revive this (great) thread by dropping it in here too. I knew I got the #TrumpBabyBoom hashtag from somewhere so I'm glad I found this one again!

Post: #29

Crossposted from Trump thread:

Hey fellas, I met Eric Trump yesterday! I added his sig to my Art of the Deal, and I have vid to prove it!

I'm going for the whole Trump family... lol

Eric Trump is easily the most friendly and approachable of the Trump family I've seen. He's "softer" you could say, but he still has the typical glow all Trump family members have. There was a crowd of 200 or so inside of a place designed to hold 150 comfortably. Dude just walked into a crowd of people, no fear. Pretty amazing to watch.

One woman said to him, "Sir do you know our government is deliberately destroying the family to make money?"

Eric: "I believe it."

I chimed in in order to help him make sense: "She's talking about how many states have corrupt divorce laws."

He looked at me and nodded.

If the Trump's get in we are going to restore the family, gentlemen. They listen and know!