From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 58797
Date: 2008-05-23
> I don't need to live in a slum in El Salvador, because my-----------------------------------------------------------------
> parents made the wise choice of producing no more children
> than they could properly feed and give an education that
> allowed us a higher standard of living than attains in your
> slum. The people in your slum are, in part, in their
> situation because they have nothing to offer the world market
> besides unskilled labor, and in a world as grossly over-
> populated as ours, with a large percentage of that population
> being unskilled labor, the value of such labor is naturally
> going to be very low, and is dropping everyday; do I need
> to go into the science of economics? When the value is as
> low as it is now, it's inescapable that unskilled laborers
> are going to have a hell of a time keeping themselves and
> their children fed.
> I most certainly would not, because I am not deluded about the-------------------------------------------------------------------
> source of the problem, which is the insistence of members of
> our world's poorest groups on having each as many children as
> he can.
> If there's no realistic opportunity in sight of you ever being
> able to properself?ly feed, clothe, shelter, and give your children
> an education which will allow them to become something other
> than an unskilled laborer, then DON'T HAVE CHILDREN.