I started last week talking about the new aggressive female when I mentioned aposematism. This was followed by the newly accepted man-child, with the addition of the new and improved nerd, society can start rolling along, clumsily though it might be. Who knows, maybe a new war wakes up this half men and balances us out? I still think too many in our population are going to hobble along in the welfare class, quietly growing to unsustainable levels.
Unfortunately, I know a couple of these welfare people. They actually think they have something to be proud of when they qualify for section 8 housing. They declare themselves out on their own. I chuckle and die a little on the inside, knowing it is through my taxes that you are making it on your own. These peeps qualify for some aid to buy food, aid in their doctors with medicaid, aid in housing. I say cool, no problem getting a little help for a while but what is your vision, Butterfly? And I don't mean waiting for that thug to get out long enough to impregnate you before he goes back in for parole violations.
The current population of the US is about 300 million people. Looking around the internet, something like 110 million people are already on welfare and we're headed to the baby boom generation reaching retirement age. As this substantial size of the population reaches retirement age and they stick around longer than ever, both good and bad, the fewer and fewer left of us still working are going to have a heavy burden to carry. Subtract the children from the equation and we might be relying on less than 100 million people carrying the other 200 million.
One more thing to add that I have noticed that will continue the unfair shift to a larger unemployable population. The educated wait or at least choose to have one or two children. The population sitting at home have nothing else to do but spit out children. Going forward from that, we will produce the two children who will both go to college and hopefully be productive members of society. Mrs. Welfare will produce four to eight or more children and they might all go to college OR look at their surrounding and mimic what they learn and just lean back, have babies of their own so they can continue what they learned from mama.
Who let this get out of hand? Growing up in my small town, we had two housing developments for the poor. There was one street which was all government housing, and there was a small neighborhood of a few streets that was the same thing. If we look around now, just down my street here in Austin, there is rampant growth of these apartment ghettoes for section 8 housing. Why not? The developers are guaranteed to get their rent, just build as cheaply as possible, as quickly as possible. There are politicians who allowed this to happen, they'll say it allows a roof over people who otherwise might be living on the streets. Austin has been a favored destination since the 90's for creative people, the city didn't have to set itself up with a "we'll take your tired and hungry and poor."
Something like 136 new people a day are moving here. Are these people in a position to afford living here? Houses are creeping up in value, at some point they will be like California houses, why not? They showed up and drove the prices up.
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