Tag: Birth Rate

Is This A ‘Lebensborn’ Type Of Program?

First this post ought to solicit some interesting comments.

I recently posted on the trend of US running out of white people…..

Is US Running Out Of White People?

Little Donny has this idea for a program that would increase the population by offering an incentive to pregnant women/families….who will benefit?

But first a little history….

To me this sounded like a take of a program from Germany in the 1930s and 40s…Lebensborn.

History time….

The Lebensborn program was created by the SS in late 1935 in order to promote the growth of Germany’s healthy “Aryan” population. The term Lebensborn itself means “Fount of Life.” The program was designed to be the wellspring of future generations descended from those whom Nazi authorities deemed “racially valuable.”

In 1933, the year Hitler and the Nazis came to power, the birth rate in Germany was 14.7 per 1,000 people. This was less than half what it had been at the turn of the century. Additionally, there were hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in Germany every year. These two practices alarmed the Nazi regime. The Nazis needed children if they were to accomplish the two goals of Nazi ideology: conquer territory in the East and establish Aryan supremacy over Europe. Healthy young boys were needed to grow up to be soldiers in the German Army. Healthy young girls were needed to grow up and give birth to the next generation of super soldiers.

Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS, founded the Lebensborn Program on December 12, 1935. Lebensborn means “the fountain of life.” The program actually provided three services: it gave pregnant women, either married or unmarried, a place to give birth to their babies and receive the best medical care; a meeting place for men and women of true Aryan stock to create babies for Adolf Hitler; and a place to raise children who had Aryan features after they had been kidnapped from their parents from foreign countries.

Children for Hitler

I shall explain myself for my assertion….

Donny’s plan would be to give money for births…

A $5,000 “baby bonus” is one of several proposals the White House is considering amid declining birth rates in the U.S., according to multiple outlets, as it looks to incentivize Americans to have more children.

Trump and Vance encouraged voters to have more children during the election cycle, with Trump telling supporters in 2023, “We will support baby booms and we will support baby bonuses for a new baby boom,” the Times reported. Trump has largely positioned himself against abortion and sought to lower the cost of in vitro fertilization, or IVF. Musk, one of the president’s most senior advisers, has also encouraged Americans to have more children. Musk, a father of at least 14 children, has claimed civilization at large will collapse without an increase in children. The U.S. fertility rate dropped to a historic low in 2023, with 3,591,328 births recorded that year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Birth rates specifically declined for women ages 20 to 39 as rising health costs, economic concerns and child-bearing postponements have impacted the fertility rate, according to Time, which cited research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

(forbes.com)

Granted this NOT the same as Lebensborn but it does smack of a bit of the ideas of making more supporters.

Plus most of those that would be open to this ‘bonus’ would be the less intelligent in the Red States…people that get government assistance any way.

Why would anyone with half a brain think this is a good idea?

The clear-cutting across the federal government under President Donald Trump has been dramatic, with mass terminations, the suspension of decades-old programs and the neutering of entire agencies. But this spectacle has obscured a series of moves by the administration that could profoundly harm some of the most vulnerable people in the U.S.: children.

Consider: The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so that babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired. The federal office that oversees the enforcement of child support payments has been hollowed out. Head Start preschools, which teach toddlers their ABCs and feed them healthy meals, will likely be forced to shut down en masse, some as soon as May 1. And funding for investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against children; responding to reports of missing children; and preventing youth violence has been withdrawn indefinitely.

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The impact of these cuts will be felt far beyond Washington, rippling out to thousands of state and local agencies serving children nationwide.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-trump-budget-cuts-harm-kids-child-care-education-abuse

Why would anyone trust a government who has proven itself to anti-child?

Anyone accepting the cash is more interested in the money than the future of their children.

To me this smacks of racism….why?  I believe that there will be certain portions that will preclude people that are not white from participating in this program if and when it becomes a done deal.

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“lego ergo scribo”

Closing Thought–30Jan23

A few weeks back one of the big stories was that the birth rate in the US is declining for yet another year.

And right on cue all the speculation for this was put into action.

But really what is the reason for this decline.

Personally I think it is nothing but fear on the part of potential parents.

There has been a lot of buzz in the media over the last few years around declining population growth — people aren’t having as many babies as they used to, especially in the United States. The birth rate in the U.S. has indeed been in steady decline since around 2007. Spurred by the Great Recession of 2008-2010, the birth dropped to 1.71 in 2019, the lowest since the 1970s. And although it’s gone up since then, the birth rate has remained relatively low.

Alongside the decline in birth rate has come widespread speculation that a population collapse is looming on the horizon, which could result in economic upheaval — and, if you’re prone to flights of whimsy, a Mad Max meets the Wild West-style dystopian future.

According to a new study, however, the plummeting U.S. birth rate is not because people want to have fewer children than their parents and grandparents did; it’s likely that they’re scared to have any kids at all. In case you haven’t been paying attention, things aren’t great for parents in the U.S., and many people of child-bearing age are playing it safe and waiting to see if conditions improve before having a baby.

“It’s hard to have children in the United States right now,” said study co-author Sarah Hayford, director of Ohio State University’s Institute for Population Research. “People feel more worried about the future than they might have been several decades ago. They worry about the economy, child care, and whether they can afford to have children.”

Hayford’s team asked 13 cohorts of women and ten cohorts of men born between the 1960s and 2000s about the number of children they would like to have. The average number they reported was not dramatically different compared to the number of children people in previous generations wanted. Hayford’s study groups reported wanting 2.1 children, compared to 2.2 children in the early 1960s.

https://www.fatherly.com/news/birth-rate-us-study-social-safety-net

Good points but I feel it is deeper than that….how about you?

Any thoughts?

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