The Boy on Top
Yesterday I read a news item about how China is trying to soften the 'one baby per family' slogans. And I got to thinking about why they have this policy.
It seems inhumane on the face of it, but what else can a country that has a population of over 1.3 billion do? Start killing off old people? Now THAT's inhumane.
Although their population increase HAS been impacted by this policy, it is still growing and at some point, they are going to spill out of their borders because they WILL run out of the resources required to support everyone. And where will they go? Why, to the West of course. (What I have seen in business over here..the growing accommodation of Chinese investment and interest in Western technology is scary and eye-opening).
Anyway, I have digressed.
I have to say that I think the harsh measures that the Chinese government has taken are actually wise. At the very least, they are actively trying to cope with the problem.
England would do well to relook at some of it's policies and laws and get similarly tough in the areas that need it. Like immigration.
France is tough...and rightly so.
England however, is actively signing their own death warrant.
Unfortunately I agree. It makes my liberal heart shiver, but there has to be controls. TB
I've had a post brewing for a while about the first part of what you say, about supporting families. I don't know if it'll ever get written, but basically, I agree with you.
Make immigrating tougher to do and to curb the birth rate put a big picture of Rosie O'Donnell in everyone's bedroom. Cheers!!
That... would do it. TB
Where did you get that 10% factoid? It sounds pretty dodgy to me, and I can't derive it from (for instance) here.
It is derived, but not from government statistics. If its overblown, the fault is mine, but from the reading I've done, it is factual. You have to take in account all migration sources, including transitory, asylum, illegal and EU. Not all of those sources are easy to calculate, especially the EU numbers. A good source is the IPPR. As an example factet making up the factoid, there are various figures showing Polish migration since '04 being anywhere between 300,000 and 1m depending on who you believe. IR figures show 1 in 20 workers on PAYE foreign born (when that is known, which it often isn't), grossing that up for extended familes gets you to some big numbers. TB
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