Cyclone has killed 100,000 in Burma

[Van]

stretchedout wrote:
 

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Well I hope you have a solid six figure income with assets in hand already.  The cost of raising children is basically $1 million per.  Now you do plan to have a house to raise children in right?  And pretty soon every other child will be diagnosed as ADHD or with Autism, and the gov is cutting back funding.  I know a guy who pays $45k per year out of his pocket for special training for his hyperactive child.[/DIV]
 That was good. Better than the Sunday funnies.  

Thanks dude. You made my morning.

[Lil Me]

UN has stopped sending aid after the first food shipments were seized by the Myanmar gov't.
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[P.C.]

This is just devastating.  A blatant crime against humanity.  It makes me weep that human suffering isn't taking priority over politics.  How can this happen?

[Sportsdude]

Stretched. While you say we should stop having kids, we have. In order to become a sustaining country without the need for immigration, every woman would need to have 4 kids. If everyone had 2 kids the population would be in the negative decline. If everyone had 3 kids they growth would be at zero. 4 kids puts the population in +'s.
Europe, N.A., Japan are in declines and even China (around 2030 their policy of one child is going to backfire with families only going for males, no more females) will start declining.

So the only option is to go to immigration and have a liberal policy on it for the survival of the nation. You restrict immigration you make your country vulnerable in the future because the countries are not sustainable.

Forget about Europe, they're history of ethnocentrism will destroy them again. Neo-fascists have been elected in Italy calling themselves the Falang and in France Szarkozy has ultra right views on immigration. Germany has issues with its Turkish population and the UK's troubles are well known.

Only country that doesn't have these immigration problems is Canada. United States is going to do itself in with the fringe ant- all immigration movement that's taken hold of a sizable amount of the population.



 

[van_guy]

 P.C. wrote:
This is just devastating.  A blatant crime against humanity.  It makes me weep that human suffering isn't taking priority over politics.  How can this happen?

Some people care more about themselves than about those they rule.  Again, we in Canada have a hard time accepting that - look at Kim Il - do you think he give's a skinny rat's a$$ that his people are starving while he's banging big boobed porn stars in his mansion - probably not.

I saw a blurb on National Geographic? about a Bhuddhist nun who for the last 60? years does nothing but pray for the end of suffering for all sentiaent beings.  She hasn't left her "house" for 60 years too busy praying for Burma etc...  I thought that was kind of uplifting that someone would care that much - to devote thier entire life to something so noble.