Idiots like Warren have always existed. The notion of saying if you don't have children, you will do far better financially....well no sh*t! If I never married, never had kids, I would truly be wealthy. But I enjoyed my life. I worked hard. Most of my life, my wife was at home raising three kids. Her choice. Fortunately, I made enough to maintain a middle class life style.
My sister in law, now in her mid 50s, never married, never had children. She regrets her decisions, but there is not much she can do now. She had opportunities, but she never acted on them.
Warren's advice as a would be leader would literally cause harm to the USA. Our society can only be maintained with a birth rate that is above 2.1 births per couple. Simple economics. That number may be higher now. Fertility in the USA is declining, I suspect in large part to the chemicals we expose our bodies to that adversely impact fertility.
Russia is in serious trouble presently because their death rate is high, and their birth rate is very low, with most women having one child and ending in divorce. Putin instituted paying women $5,000 for every child they birth to encourage women having children.
The society in the USA is disintegrating. Young people coming along have poor education, even from the better communities, and value societal norms less and less. I believe 80% of African Americans are born out of wedlock, which all studies show leads to high levels of poverty. Does anyone do anything about this problem? No. We have a society wanting to fault all the wrong people for the decisions each of us make.
The era of growing prosperity for the middle class is over. Corrupt elected officials along with greed in the business sector have held personal growth to zero for 20+ years, and the processes in place are not going away. Add the effort of these corrupt politicians to establish globalization, and the growth of people in the USA will be more limited than ever.
The parallels between the USA and Russia are startling to me. It is my contention the USA is moving more every day to the life in Russia. And what is that? POVERTY!! Multiple generations living in one home, all working to put enough food on the table just to survive. Little to no religion. Little to no belief in the value of family life. Just drudgery. Abortion is part of the path of life there, now more and more here. Although we are surpassing them, in that we have elected officials declaring it is perfectly fine to kill a born child. What next, a three year old is intolerable, so we can eliminate them too? A 70+ individual is becoming a nuisance, so rid society of them too?
We are on a path that is not in the best interests of this country or its people. The elite will continue down the path of globalization, which is largely an effort to bring most of the world population down to minimal levels of compensation and marginal survival. That includes the USA. That is in large part why they are pushing for open borders. At the rate we are going, it just will not matter where one lives, for it will be marginal existence, except for the elite.
What we will have done is return to a system of aristocracy, only without the titles.
