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The Greying of Humankind Blogging Event Roundup

Ang Pagka-Anak Populasyon: Pangunahing Yaman To Space and Beyond The World is Graying: The case of the “beanpole family” and “beanpole effect” When Women Don’t Want Babies Where Have All The Children Gone? Birth Control: Always Winter, Never Christmas

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Posted in Ako Ay Pilipino, Population Control, The Economic Perspective

Tocqueville, Self-Interest and the Government

The problem, to be blunt, is government. You have a choice, in Tocqueville’s view, between a government that protects freedom and a government that provides material security. You cannot have both. And if you choose comfortable slavery you cannot have

Posted in The Economic Perspective, The Moral Argument

Progress = People as Blessings, Not Burden

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Posted in Gallery, The Economic Perspective

Singapore’s Folly, Again

From this article: Singaporeans need to marry and have children if they do not want the country to fold up, Mr Lee Kuan Yew warned on Saturday night. In his annual National Day dinner speech to residents of Tanjong Pagar

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Posted in Population Control, The Economic Perspective, The Myth of Overpopulation

RH Bill — Decoded, from 700 Club Asia

A lengthy production from the 700 Club, but well worth watching. No, it’s not only the Catholic Church that believes the RH bill should not be passed.

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Posted in Exposés, News/Commentary, Population Control, The Biblical Christian Perspective, The Economic Perspective, The Myth of Overpopulation, Videos, Women's Health

Is RH Bill A Scam?

Very interesting and enlightening post by BongV at AntiPinoy: Population Size/Density/Growth Rate, Ease of Doing Business or Why the RH Bill is a Scam What this all adds up to is that poverty is not caused by population size, population

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Posted in Population Control, The Economic Perspective, The Myth of Overpopulation

More Thumbs Down

RH is unnecessary. As an economist friend who works in a foreign bank pointed out to me: Contraceptive devices like condoms, IUDs, pills, tubal ligations, and vasectomies are not illegal in our country. You can hear radio commercials and see

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Posted in News/Commentary, The Economic Perspective

Let the Truth Be Told

Enrile does what he does best, reveal the logic (or maybe we should call it “illogic”) of those who think population control = progress. “Are you suggesting (we) adopt … population control in the country?” asked Enrile, who attended a

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Posted in Population Control, The Economic Perspective, The Myth of Overpopulation

Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs

Passing the RH Bill would be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Already China and Thailand – still with relatively large populations – are suffering from labor shortages because of the rapid aging of their populations over the

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Posted in Population Control, Poverty, The Economic Perspective, The Myth of Overpopulation

Philippine Population = Opportunity

The debate has been going on for centuries. In the Philippines, it flares up whenever lawmakers take up bills proposing to control population growth. In recent months, however, the government’s top economic managers — echoed by a number of private-sector

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Posted in The Economic Perspective

Is Overpopulation the Problem?

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Posted in data, Gallery, Population Control, Poverty, The Economic Perspective, The Myth of Overpopulation

Lessons from Singapore’s Demographic Winter

Can We Still Trust Lee Kuan Yew? By 2011, our birthrate stood at yet another historic low of 1.15. Mr Lee’s population tweaking and his obsession in eugenics has arguably brought Singapore to its current dilemma. The PAP never took

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Posted in Population Control, The Economic Perspective, The Myth of Overpopulation, Timeline

Just Say No to Population Control

Look at Singapore, and see the devastating effects of population control. We don’t want to go there.

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Posted in Gallery, Population Control, The Economic Perspective, The Myth of Overpopulation