Problems With an Aging Population

Problems With an Aging Population

Dear Editor:

According to the Associated Press, a UN commission is studying the problem and challenges of an aging world population. The quotes are ominous: "The global population is aging so quickly that the elderly will out number the young in 50 years..." "The predictions are almost cataclysmic...a world wide economic crisis?" "With the population's proportion of taxpaying workers shrinking national budgets could be overwhelmed in trying to provide retirement and health benefits for the elderly."

The author, keeping with norms of political correctness, casts the problem as "global" and makes no mention that it is primarily a problem of the European nations and their offspring such as the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

Third World nations are still producing children in large numbers that promote population growth since the mid-sixties; the birth rate of America's majority population has declined until today it is below replacement level. Our only population growth is that of immigrants flooding into our country and among some of our minority groups. The average age of Euro-Americans is 36 while that for Hispanics is 26.

Although there are several factors in the falling birthrate, one of the most prominent is legalized abortion. Since the Supreme Court, in 1972, legalized this heretofore-illegal practice, no less than 40 million unborn babies have been destroyed. Those 40 million account for both the shrinking of our majority population and for the imbalance between the old and young components of it. Virtually all of those babies who were denied life would have grown up to be productive, taxpaying citizens who would have helped to carry the load when their elders retired.

Everyone over 55 remembers the hysteria caused by the book, "Population Bomb," by Dr. Paul Ehrlich. We were told of a coming mass starvation and a war for food by hungry masses. This frightened many young people into having no children or a greatly reduced number. Consequently, today we have a problem of too many old and too few young people. Contrary to the fear-mongers, today's six billion earthlings enjoy more freedom, food and prosperity than the three billion did in 1960, the two billion of 1927 and the one billion of 1830.

The AP report notes as its final word that the action plan to be considered will include euthanasia. The logic is inevitable. If a government gives parents the right to abort their unwanted babies who might be a burden to them, then it will give the right to children to euthanize parents when they become burdensome and unwanted. It is just a matter of time.

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