handofdave
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2007 record year for babies born in US
Mar 19, 2009, 15:43
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I was under the assumption that the age demographic was on a steady rise, and then I read this..
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29765905/
More children born in the US in '07 than in any other single year in US history, even topping the first wave of the baby boom.
Came as a real surprise to me... seems the last I knew the trend was heading the other way.
Perhaps this is the solution to social security running out of money- the government's putting fertility drugs in the water supply, hah hah.
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Eduardo
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Re: 2007 record year for babies born in US
Mar 20, 2009, 08:36
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Just got to find them all good taxpaying jobs and we're away.
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zphage
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Re: 2007 record year for babies born in US
Mar 20, 2009, 18:17
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Or at the very least, draft 'em.
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Vybik Jon
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Re: 2007 record year for babies born in US
Mar 20, 2009, 18:31
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Is that a US practice similar to winding babies?
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zphage
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Re: 2007 record year for babies born in US
Mar 20, 2009, 18:54
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Baby army:
http://www.myspace.com/missbabyarmy
OR
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://spadaddy.org/images/army_baby.jpg&imgrefurl=http://spadaddy.org/&usg=__2INr8QeMVlisPffeFCfc7o3wqIw=&h=395&w=500&sz=115&hl=en&start=6&tbnid=yPbztf2I8Ik3QM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspadaddy%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
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PMM
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Re: 2007 record year for babies born in US
Mar 20, 2009, 22:30
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Imagine that! A horde of clockwork babies. There's a Steven King novel in there somewhere.
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handofdave
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Re: 2007 record year for babies born in US
Mar 20, 2009, 23:01
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There's a bit in Stanislaw Lem's 'The Cyberiad' where we are told the tale of two warring cities.
One of the cities, knowing their enemies weakness, stops attacking the walls and instead catapults babies into their city. As the target of this barrage of babies cannot help but minister to the needs of all these infants, their expenditure for formula and diapers and baby cribs overwhelms their military budget and they are forced into surrender.
I think this thread is digressing quite well, don't you?
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postyesterdayman
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Re: 2007 record year for babies born in US
Mar 24, 2009, 21:48
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The economy is a mess, I lost my job, the savings are gone, the US Govt. practically owns us....let's have a baby!
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zphage
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Re: 2007 record year for babies born in US
Mar 24, 2009, 22:03
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postyesterdayman wrote: The economy is a mess, I lost my job, the savings are gone, the US Govt. practically owns us....let's have a baby!
Good thinking, it increases your standard deduction, plus you may be eligible for an Earned Income Tax Credit:
http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96466,00.html
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shanshee_allures
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Re: 2007 record year for babies born in US
Mar 24, 2009, 22:26
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Jeezuz people just never learn and never will.
It's age old, having baby after baby with not a jot of though as to how you're going to feed the blimmin thing.
Sure enough anyone can end up the victim of circumstance, but just as often it's down to a bit of good old fashioned stupidity.
Mr Zevon puts it wonderfully
I was born in '63
Got a little job in the factory
I don't know much about Kennedy
I was too busy working in the factory
We got a kid that's two, we got another one due
We get by the best we can do
The factory's got a good medical plan
And, cousin, I'm a union man
Saying, Yes sir, no sir, yes sir, no sir, yes sir, no sir - Work !
I was born in Mechanicsburg
My daddy worked for Pontiac 'til he got hurt
Now he's on disability
And I got his old job in the factory
Saying, Yes sir, no sir, yes sir, no sir, yes sir, no sir - Work !
Early in the morning I feel a chill
The factory whistle blows loud and shrill
I'd kill my wife or she'd kill me
But we gotta go to work in the factory
Six days a week at the factory
Up early in the morning at the factory
I've been working in the factory
Johnny, I've been working in the factory
Kickin' asbestos in the factory
Punchin' out Chryslers in the factory
Breathin' that plastic in the factory
Makin' polyvinyl chloride in the factory
In a brilliant Springsteen pardoy stylee
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