"As Goes California, So Goes The Nation"?

Devolving to Third World America (hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance):


Is there any way to stem this tide?

Nature Abhors a Vacuum

BY SILVERFIDDLE....

Demographics is destiny.  You can go Yahoogle birth rates by nation and see who is growing and who is dying.

Another useful way of looking a global demographics is by the median age of each nation.

The Global Median Age is 30.1 as of 2016 estimates. The darker parts of the map are older: Europe, North America, Japan...  and the younger nations are in green and yellow.

The median age of the Palestinian Territories is 19, and almost all African nations are lower than that.

The median age of Germany--a very old country--is 47, with the rest of Europe all in their 40's. The US stands at 38, thanks to all the children arriving here, since our native-born birth rate is not much better than Olde Europe.

This explains the epochal global migration we are living through. Nature abhors a vacuum.

What do we do about it?

Recommended Reading

See Europe's Childless Leaders Sleepwalking Us to Disaster by Giulio Meotti at Gatestone Institute.

The bullet points in the teaser:

Cutting Retiree Benefits

The cuts involve the ailing Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, an independent agency of the federal government.  This portion of the Wikipedia article explains how the PBGC is funded.

Excerpt from the Washington Post article Congressional leaders hammer out deal to allow pension plans to cut retiree benefits:

A measure that would for the first time allow the benefits of current retirees to be severely cut is set to be attached to a massive spending bill, part of an effort to save some of the nation’s most distressed pension plans.

The rule would alter 40 years of federal law and could affect millions of workers, many of them part of a shrinking corps of middle-income employees in businesses such as trucking, construction and supermarkets....

Note the example cited below the fold.

Nincompoopery Poll

(Nincompoopery — and worse — abounds! This edition of "Nincompoopery" offers five links, and readers have the option of taking a poll as to which story they find the most outrageous. Discussion available in the comments section)

Links to read:

ONE: [Portland, Oregon] Reservoir flushed [for the second time in less than three years] because of urinating teen

TWO: Fuels from corn waste not better than gas

THREE: Senator: Non-English Speakers Qualify for Disability Benefits More Quickly

FOUR: 14-Year-Old Girl [in the UK] Accused of Being Antisocial After Building Fort, Picnicking in the Woods

FIVE: DNC Uses Michelle Obama’s “Mother’s Day Card” As Fundraising Ploy

Please cast your ballot in the poll, which closes on Tuesday:

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Thought For Today

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 10,000 Baby Boomers reach retirement age every day.

There is a tsunami upon us, and America has not prepared for it. In fact, most individuals have not significantly prepared.

Aging Boomers is but one problem threatening our nation's economy. See Robert J. Samuelson's essay "America’s Demographic Denial" (March 2, 2014).

Even worse, America has become a nation willing to surrender individual freedoms.

America's best days are over.

The weather here today, however, is going to be a real taste of spring. Therefore, I won't be dwelling on the ugly realities but rather enjoying this earthly life, a gift that doesn't last forever.

The Entitlement Tsunami

(hat tip to Debbie of Right Truth)

Please take THIS QUIZ. Worth your time.

Neither of the two major political parties has even begun to batten down the hatches in advance of this tsunami.