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Originally posted by Colin@May 13 2004, 05:22 PM
A whole lot of the western world is heading towards this predicament. It's really interesting. Not long ago people worried about non stop growing populations. Now certain countries are worried about the opposite.
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too many people = not enough natural resources so people stopped having as many babies ... now the pollies realize that if our country grows slower than someone else's our economy will fall behind.
make up ya mind guys!!
John Howard has been hammered for a couple of years by women wanting paid maternity leave (not compulsory here) and this was just his way of patting them on the head - of course, the women complaining don't think $3k is enough considering where the rest of the budget is going to be spent.
Anything that encourages women to sit on their ass and breed is not a good move in my eyes! But Johnnie Howard has been pretty good at guiding our economy in the right direction for the last 2 terms ...