"China Begins Paying Women to Have Babies," Breitbart reports. Apparently China has already been paying out the money before this, but the money had been going to employers who were supposed to pass it on to the mothers, but of course, China being China, the employers took a cut. So the big change is that the money will be paid directly to mothers. And even these subsidies appear to be too little, too late:
“The Chinese government is now throwing money at the problem, but it may come as too little, too late. Last month, Beijing unveiled a new subsidy of about $500 a year for the first three years of a child’s life. On social media, some commentators noted they would consider having more children if the subsidy were 10 times what’s being offered,” the Washington Post noted.
Good ol' over-population crisis. Really dodged a bullet there. Smh...
ReplyDeleteInstead of a "population bomb" we have "the population has bombed".
DeleteI'm reminded of a line from Herman Wouk's Winds of War spoken by the Pug Henry character regarding supporting the British war effort, well before the U.S. got involved, along the lines of however many Germans the Brits killed off being advantageous to the U.S. in that "it takes 18 years to grow a Bosch."
ReplyDeleteWhile Germany in late winter 1945 demonstrated that much younger Bosch could man the ramparts, the point was made; it's also a much longer planning cycle than bureaucrats and tax mavens are usually capable of mastering, and severely complicated by the fact that about half of the result may not be as productive as some in government would like (although, as conflict becomes more technical and less physical, that may no longer be true).
End feminism.
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