This blog isn't about politics, per se, but one way a commentator can prove his/her bonafides is by making outlandish predictions that come true. Also, we can engage in some 'pataphysics.
Case: The US - and the rest of the developed world - faces economic crisis because of declining birth rates. The only way to pay for Social Security, the only way for the housing crisis to end, is for there to be another baby boom.
That seems unlikely, because raising children is expensive. This must change. Children will become profit-centers, not cost-centers. We must bring back child labor!
There are other ways out. Science could develop a cure for aging, leaving us hale and hearty until, at the age of 110, our cells stop dividing and we die. Or we could abolish social security - this would create incentives for people to have more children, who would take care of them in old-age. But that's risky; how many people currently save enough for retirement? So I think child labor is the way to go.
Honestly, who can look at pictures from the turn of the last century, and not feel yesteryear's children were stronger, more disciplined, less frivolous, less... childish - then the children of today? As a fringe benefit, putting more children to work means less money wasted on education, too!
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