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Posted by Drew458    United States   on 05/18/2012 at 09:59 AM   
 
  1. Kudos Drew but not for reason relating to Japan but your comments closer to the mark then even you might suspect.

    I wonder if this always happens when the standard of living gets too high? Or perhaps it always happens when the State gets too powerful, beneficent or not. When life is too easy, do people just stop trying? Or perhaps when the definition of “the good life” is set too high.
    pretty obvious when you think about it, is that the aging population is not helping. Too much health care? I can’t say, but with everyone living forever, there is no room opening up for the next generations,

    China and India have insanely large populations, with more people per square mile than anywhere on earth, yet they continue to churn out the young. Ah, but the quality of life there isn’t all that great, nor is health care, nor is longevity.

    Around three this morning I got up and found I was more wake then sleep and so turned on the BBC World Service (bedside radio).
    There is a program called Assignment and I got caught up listening because the subject was China, and the report was scary. For the Chinese and at least in Shanghai which is seen as a mirror on the China we don’t see or hear about.
    continue to churn out the young Well, no. Fact is, there are nowhere near enough young. And that is a growing problem for China. They are also importing labor, not cos the Chinese young aren’t willing to work. There simply isn’t enough of em.
    Much of what Drew says with regard to Japan is true of China.  I wish I’d had a way to record the program and share it here at bmews. I wouldn’t have thought I could be so interested in a report on China’s birth rate. The bottom line tho is that the Reds under their great late fat head leader,Chairman Mao, so thoroughly screwed things up, that the country is paying the price today.
    The aging population and the restriction on more then one child may have helped at a time when they had a problem with famine etc. but they continued the practice. 
    Two children are allowed to a couple who were themselves, a single child. And in many cases couples are choosing to have none by choice. And btw, health care in China can get very expensive, it isn’t all free, and the tiny pensions allowed to all those quite old pensioners, don’t half cover the expense. And those low pensions also are a result of Mao’s great leaps and the system those ppl had for so long. People uprooted and put into communes and told what sort of work they would do etc. It has all more or less unraveled and to the detriment of an aging population. Which won’t surprise any of us.

    I do not know if you can get BBC radio 4 on line in the USA or not. I think you might be able to, and if you can, this was a very interesting and enlightening program.

    Posted by peiper    United Kingdom   05/19/2012  at  01:21 AM  

  2. I lost interest in sex after my 5ft 4inch wife passed the 200 pound mark.

    Now the only chance that I get to get some wood is when Drew or peiper posts some gorgeous, unclothed female body.

    Posted by New Jersey Yankee    Ireland   05/19/2012  at  07:05 AM  

  3. ah well, then you’ll appreciate today’s post above and especially below the fold.
    See Miss England. As if you need to be asked. lol.

    Posted by peiper    United Kingdom   05/19/2012  at  07:41 AM  

  4. It will become Japanistan no doubt. Koala eew snackbar!

    Posted by grayjohn    United States   05/19/2012  at  09:38 AM  

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