Birth Control ... Whats your thoughts?

[blueriver]

The news just reported by Monday we will have 7 Billion people on the planet ... my buddy called and asked me when do you think goverment controlled birth control will come into effect?

I laughed and switched the conversation ... now I am thinking "when will it become controlled?"

 

[KubotainNH]

Wow, that's a bunch of people. Funny how most women I know that have been on the pill for a long time end up with issues in that area of their anatomy. As for the gov'ment, some are pushing the HPV vaccine as mandatory for kids. That's not far from what you mention.

 

[Pirate]

Birth control will not be something to worry about in this country. What is a problem is the uneducated countries in asia with exploding populations such as India.

 

[rasimmo]

I am not really for government control of much, but this may not be a bad idea. I would like some input for the selection process though. Some folks should not be allowed to breed.

 

[rekees4300]

One way or the other human population will soon be reduced. Either governments will do it (unlikely) or Mother Earth will make the adjustment.

 

[BobRip]

Educating women and giving them birth control options seems to be the best way to do birth control. Having government not encourage it helps to. If these are done government controls may not be needed.

 

[flyingcow]

I am not really for government control of much, but this may not be a bad idea. I would like some input for the selection process though. Some folks should not be allowed to breed.[/QUOTE

Need to pass a test to drive a car? But you can breed for the heck of it? kinda makes you wonder. We have 3 kids...............we support them. We didn't have kids ASSUMING the government will support them. Not saying if you're in trouble you shouldn't get help. But back the OP....Birth Control? What is the limit of people, in this world, that we can support?

 

[EMB5530]

I am not really for government control of much, but this may not be a bad idea. I would like some input for the selection process though. Some folks should not be allowed to breed.

Crude very very Crude

But Goodness its SOOOOO true

 

[rasimmo]

I do not have any children. Been married for 12 years, trying to get pregnant for about 10. Seeing so many people who "accidently" got pregnant kinda makes you form these opinions in my situation.

 

[rasimmo]

By we do you mean the taxpayers or the farmers growing the food?

 

[Redneck in training]

The solution is simple. Tax the children.
Somebody mentioned India. Since India is democracy it is difficult to impose birth control like in China so there are incentives and programs to make it more expensive to have many children and beneficial to have less children. In example if government employee has third child he/she loses job. It is a matter of incentive. Even uneducated people understand money. To have 8-10 children made sense 100 years ago. 80% of them died before they reached age of 5 but today they live.

 

[flyingcow]

By we do you mean the taxpayers or the farmers growing the food?

just in general to have food and water. Where it comes from? Dunno. But can it be delivered to where it's needed, if it's available.

 

[SandburRanch]

The solution is simple. Tax the children.

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We're doing just the opposite. We're paying people to have children that have no means of raising them. You say how? Tax deductions, welfare and food stamps. A 22 year old that has 5 with a very vague idea who the father is of any of the 5 needs to go through the sterilization office for a vaccine before entering the next room where the benefits are. Breed if you like but just stop the irresponsible nonsense.

 

[rasimmo]

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We're doing just the opposite. We're paying people to have children that have no means of raising them. You say how? Tax deductions, welfare and food stamps. A 22 year old that has 5 with a very vague idea who the father is of any of the 5 needs to go through the sterilization office for a vaccine before entering the next room where the benefits are. Breed if you like but just stop the irresponsible nonsense.

AMEN, I would vote for that law any day.

 

[rasimmo]

Hey, I finally figured out how yall were making the quotes with the pretty little boxes around them. And these boys I work with think I am computer illiterate.

 

[blueriver]

just in general to have food and water. Where it comes from? Dunno. But can it be delivered to where it's needed, if it's available.

Thats the other side ... the news reported that our water supply is in trouble. Really when one thinks about this .... the possible answer is "mandatory birth control"

If for ten years, there are no births and the current death rate maintains ... gotta ask how many people would there be on this planet?

I don't see taxing the "kids" as the answer ... how many humans can the planet support ... WAIT ... how many can we support?

 

[rekees4300]

Some startling facts to ponder.

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Over his/her lifetime, each American newborn will produce an average of:

3.1 million pounds of CO2 (same as 413 plane trips from New York to Tokyo)

22,828,508 pounds of water waste (the equivalent of 48,060 10-minute showers)

16,372 pounds of yard waste (enough to fill 442 large garbage cans)

7,249 pounds of food waste (as much as 16 households produce in a year)

S/he will eat 1,654 chickens, 74 turkeys, 25 pigs, 11 cows, two sheep, and 18,675 eggs.

And s/he will use 1,870 barrels of petroleum (enough to fuel a Subaru Outback for 822,800 miles).

 

[blueriver]

Some startling facts to ponder.

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Over his/her lifetime, each American newborn will produce an average of:

3.1 million pounds of CO2 (same as 413 plane trips from New York to Tokyo)

22,828,508 pounds of water waste (the equivalent of 48,060 10-minute showers)

16,372 pounds of yard waste (enough to fill 442 large garbage cans)

7,249 pounds of food waste (as much as 16 households produce in a year)

S/he will eat 1,654 chickens, 74 turkeys, 25 pigs, 11 cows, two sheep, and 18,675 eggs.

And s/he will use 1,870 barrels of petroleum (enough to fuel a Subaru Outback for 822,800 miles).

Thats some facts to think about ....

 

[creekbend]

I am not really for government control of much, but this may not be a bad idea. I would like some input for the selection process though. Some folks should not be allowed to breed.

Food for thought? From 1907 forward at least 60,000 Americans were sterilized against their will. Most of these forced sterilizations were performed in the 1930's and 1940's but some states such as Virginia continued the practice until the late 1970's. By the early 1930's some 30 states had adapted eugenics laws. The NAZIS formulated and implemented the same system. 400,000 men and women in Germany during this era were forcibly sterilized. 200,000 handicapped people were murdered by the ****'S in their attempt to establish the "Master Race". No one on the face of this planet has the right to tell another person that they can or cannot have offspring. You may not have realized what you previously stated, but it sure sounded that you were in favor of advocating this process and the future implementation of a system similar to this. No one has that right, only the CREATOR.

 

[RoyJackson]

This would be a good thread to move to the Front Porch forum...I can see it going political and/or religious pretty quickly...