Originally Posted by ilovetv

The best illustration of your point I can think of is Patrick Buchanan's recent column, "Can a Geriatric Germany Save Europe?".......the Europe in which declining human reproduction is producing demographics not constituted by enough working taxpayers to sustain the ballooning government-dependent population.

Regardless of whether you believe in God or even nature, God and/or nature require human reproduction for continued existence of the human race. Defy God and nature, and you are doomed as a civilization!


See:

"Can a Geriatric Germany Save Europe?"

"As Greece lurches on the precipice of default on its sovereign debt, a default that could bring down banks across Europe and precipitate a global financial panic, a consensus is building that there is but one way out.

First, a structured default on the Greek debt, giving creditors a major haircut, but compensating them with eurobonds of half the face value of the Greek bonds, guaranteed by the European Central Bank.

Second, a huge new European Financial Stabilization Facility of trillions of euros to recapitalize stricken banks and buy up the sovereign debt of Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Spain, should private investors flee their bonds.

Such a solution, however, depends upon Germany, the richest nation in Europe and major contributor to the ECB.

Hard-money Germans, however, do not relish bailing out the deadbeat nations of Club Med who have more generous welfare states than their own.

Politically, it may not be possible to cajole or coerce the Germans, indefinitely, into saving the eurozone, the collapse of which could bring on a depression and bring down the European Union itself.

There is another reason the European Monetary Union and EU may be headed for the boneyard: demography.

Looking over the 2008 World Population Prospects from the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs, one finds that the nation which is to carry Europe back to solvency is aging, shrinking and dying..."

Can a Geriatric Germany Save Europe? » Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website