While we moan and groan about the declining Ameridcan birthrate, maybe someone needs to start thinking about the 40 year decline in the American workforce.

From Pew:  


The U.S. birth rate dropped to its lowest level since the beginning of the Great Depression, led by a drop among immigrants, according to a report data released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.
 
In 2011, the overall birth rate was 63.2 per 1,000 women of childbearing age, the lowest since at least 1920, Pew reported, citing numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics. The birth rate reached 122.7 in 1957, the peak of the Baby Boom. After the mid-1970s, the birth rate stabilized at about 65 to 70 births per 1,000 women annually, until the beginning of the Great Recession.

Since 2007, both the U.S. birth rate (the number of live births per 1,000 women ages 15-44) and the number of births have dropped significantly, according to the report.

Overall, the birth rate declined 8 percent from 2007 to 2010.  Among U.S.-born women, the birth rate dropped 6 percent. The decline among foreign-born women was 14 percent. Among Mexican women, the birth rate fell even more, to percent.  

Editor's notes:  forget the ethnic demographics and think "workforce."  

What is not even hinted at in the PEW report is the fact that the birth rate decline has been going on since the 1960's.  In fact,  2000 recorded the lowest American birth rate since the Great Depression.  The downward trend in population growth is, of course,  a downward trend in the national workforce.  The two are inexorably connected at the hip.

Problem:  with the Left's penchant for increasing the welfare roles,  the 40 year tread in population/workforce decline has become critical.  Like it or not,  a socialist society absolutely must have a substantial workforce or it cannot exist.  Wealth is earned and it is earned by  those who actually get off their butts and work.  A marked downward trend in the workforce combined with a sharp increase in Obama's welfare buds, spells financial doom.  

Understand that the payouts to Social Security benefactors will be borrowed money in two years, and,  the unfunded total for Medicare was increased to 42 trillion by the CBO this past week.  

While the Chief Moron is playing political games,  he has already run out of time in his developing Utopian dream.  For every 165 people drawing some form of welfare or entitlement payment,  there are only 100 workers in this country. 

I can hardly wait for one of you yellow dog Democrats to remind me how stupid conservatives are.  What is funny is the fact that we conservatives get the problem and the big spending libs have no clue.