>LOL at possible explanations.
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>It is interesting that US white rates are now only slightly higher than the UK rates. The trajectory suggests that soon the Uk will be bested... but the next question must be why there are such glaring demographic differences in the US. and the question after that, must be what programs are needed to target the real problems in the black and Hispanic populations.
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>FWIW, yesterday the government in a first world nation declared a new policy: contraception is now free of charge for beneficiaries and their daughters. A celebration was expected, because the cost of contraception was quoted (just as it is in the US) as a reason for high pregnancy rates in some populations who are ill-equipped to raise kids. Instead the policy was declared an insult to beneficiaries and the poor.
An insult? I think that shows a certain moderation. In our world of identity politics I would expect the policy to be denounced as an attempt at genocide.
Are you familiar with Theodore Dalrymple?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
