tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839413630623850301.post6196225791449184807..comments2023-11-03T09:34:09.373-04:00Comments on Building Cathedrals:: "Economic Stimulus" packages won't save the American economy; two-parent families with several children willJuris Materhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01717212659724234395noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839413630623850301.post-32649824233484292412009-05-01T15:04:00.000-04:002009-05-01T15:04:00.000-04:00Thanks for the link JM. I read it with great inte...Thanks for the link JM. I read it with great interest and my resolve to read First Things on a regular basis has been strengthened.Elenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826060634092974715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839413630623850301.post-10108455703177260632009-05-01T13:41:00.000-04:002009-05-01T13:41:00.000-04:00JM,
Thanks for this link. Excellent article. I...JM, <br /><br />Thanks for this link. Excellent article. I particularly liked the discussion of "tax incentives" for families. There are none!<br /><br />I had a professor in law school who asked us to name one law that actually benefitted those parents who raised their family in a responsible way. Since tax policies don't really help Americans with families (those taking a free ride and never having children are currently greatly advantages by our tax system), not one person could think of a single law or economic policy that benefitted responsible parenthood. It seems this has all reared its ugly head in the current economic crisis.<br /><br />And as an aside, I have recently been reading a bit about the decline in birth rate both here and in Europe. At present, much of European culture will be dead in just 50 years. The replacement fertility rate (per couple), is 2.1. A rate of 2.3 is necessary to have economic and cultural growth. The rate in Europe is 1.4! The U.S. rate has continued to decline and is presently 2.1--it is only this high thanks to the Latino immigrants. By 2050, almost all Western European nations will be primarily Muslim. <br /><br />These sorts of numbers and our current economic crisis should themselves be proof that contraception has done nothing to benefit our society! We are contracepting ourselves out of existence, and in the meantime, the government continues to fail in pursing tax policies that help those families raising our next generation.Right Said Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03000769740954672341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839413630623850301.post-20034866616116726982009-05-01T09:20:00.000-04:002009-05-01T09:20:00.000-04:00I just read that article and found it interesting ...I just read that article and found it interesting due to its abundance of common sense. After all, we need only to look to history to see what made America great in the first place.JesusThroughMaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03204477399915812153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839413630623850301.post-39278707793549217382009-05-01T09:04:00.000-04:002009-05-01T09:04:00.000-04:00JM, such an interesting topic and one that has see...JM, such an interesting topic and one that has seemed to stir many circles. <br />http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/viewarticle.php?selectedarticle=2009.05.01.002.pdart is an article along the same lines written by a former Witherspoon Institute Post-Doc and Heritage Foundation Senior Policy Analyst. He writes in reference to Pelosi's claim "Family planning services reduce costs", a statement that received extremely negative public reaction worldwide. I think the two complement each other well. Thanks for sharing this!B-Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889509365971309400noreply@blogger.com