And,
missing from this article but as I've mentioned in numerous previous
rants, RISING EXPECTATION EQUALS A DECLINING BIRTH RATE. Thank you,
Howard Raines, my brilliant high school history teacher, who accurately
foretold the entire population "crisis" in the 1950's, destroying
Malthusianism and all its prognostications in the process. I often
entertain myself with imagining how he would have sliced, diced and
skewered Paul Ehrlich and his insane acolytes, all of whom continue to
collect their (government funded) pay checks for being 100% wrong.
The
time is nigh when the world will be experiencing a kid crisis as it
sinks into societies of geriatric toddlers like us. I postulate that
there would be no social security/medicare crisis whatsoever if
50,000,000 aborted babies hadn't been murdered in the womb, and that's
not even mentioning the children and now even grandchildren that many of
these innocents would already have produced.
I
likewise postulate that there would be no illegal immigrant problem and
no consideration of amnesty if these innocents had not been sacrificed
on Moloch's altar of women's rights. As both Jefferson and Lincoln
rightly emphasized from the bully pulpit of the Presidency, God is just.
March of the middle class
Workers in poor countries have never had it so good
TWO
decades ago the extremely poor accounted for more than a third of all
workers in developing countries, around 750m people. Today their numbers
have halved. The fastest-growing group are those considered “middle
class”: they now represent 40% of the labour force in poor countries.
Our chart, based on a report released today by the International Labour
Organisation (ILO), shows the degree to which workers’ prospects have
improved. “For the first time in history, over the next several years,
most new jobs in the developing world are likely to be of sufficient
quality to allow workers and their families to live above the equivalent
of the poverty line in the United States,” states the ILO. Yet the
progress is not evenly spread. Most middle-class job growth occurs in
Latin America, east Asia and central and southern Europe. Across south
Asia and sub-Saharan Africa most growth is expected among the “near
poor”—those at the fulcrum between middle class and poverty.
