Paul Ryan says American women need to have more babies

[applegrove]

AARON RUPAR at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/paul-ryan-says-american-women-need-to-have-more-babies-dc45cb1afec2/

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During a news conference on Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan urged American women to have more babies, saying their lack of procreation was stunting economic growth.

“People — this is going to be the new economic challenge for America. People,” Ryan said, in response to a question about entitlement reform.


Alluding to the fact that he’s a father of three, Ryan added, “I did my part, but we need to have higher birth rates in this country. Meaning, baby boomers are retiring, and we have fewer people following them in the work force.”

“We have something like a 90 percent increase in the retirement population in America, but only a 19 percent increase in the working population in American,” the Speaker continued. “So what do we have to do? Be smarter, more efficient, more technology — still going to need more people. And when we have tens of millions of people right here in this country falling short of their potential — not working, not looking for a job, or not in school getting a skill to get a job — that’s a problem.”

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[applegrove]

1. What about that wall and the Dreamers?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Well, isn't that the point?

We kick out the Dreamers, we build a wall and limit all immigration, so American women absolutely must have more babies. Ryan doesn't see the irony in all this. And he's the sort of person who hasn't a clue that there could possibly be too many people on this planet. Idiot.

[JDC]

2. Maybe automation should be addressed

[Laurian]

4. Damn. I expected this to be from the Onion.

We are traveling back in time. No governmental regulators, no birth control and men wanting women barefoot and pregnant.... all the damn time!

I feel like I'm back in the 50's.

[smirkymonkey]

5. He means WHITE American women need to have more babies.

Immigration would easily solve this problem.

[Liberal In Texas]

7. Bingo! n/t

[MrScorpio]

16. Thats exactly what he meant

[shenmue]

6. I can't, too busy having ovarian cysts, Paul, you fuckin' asshole

[applegrove]

8. Vibes on that. My aunt had those. Tough going.

[shenmue]

11. Thank you

[dembotoz]

9. Immigration drove population growth

[trof]

10. Naw. This has to be the onion, right?

[kydo]

12. Isn't that what the Nazis said?

Good German/Aryan women should have lots of PURE German/Aryan babies. Then came the hitler youth.

[avebury]

13. If Republicans refuse to provide the assistance when necessary to

see that EXISTING children are adequately fed, housed, dressed, schooled and receive medical treatment then they have no right to be telling people to procreate away. Intentionally trying to grow the population when you know that there are so many starving people is criminal to say the least.

[BoneyardDem]

14. it would seem that easier immigration laws would be a quicker fix.

asking baby boomers to birth children to help with the emptying labor market is't the answer...they won't be working for decades.

[muntrv]

15. Paul Ryan needs to go pound sand.

[Jspur]

17. That's code for

we need white people to have more white babies. I will go beyond race when I say this why is it important for people to have more kids? The country has already over 300 mil people which is a lot to support when it comes to resources and costs. I have always wondered how much easier it would be to take care of people if we didn't have a large population.