Vietnam's baby boom crisis - 04 Dec 07

Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley went to Ho Chi Minh City to meet some of the more than half a million orphans whose adoptions are being made more difficult by new laws designed to protect them.

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[CapitanoGUC]

@PeeteyP well, i guess so

[PeeteyP]

@CapitanoGUC Really?

[PeeteyP]

every child is very important, even though we support birth reduction.

[CapitanoGUC]

they need to mak up for the million people killed by the american invaders ....:-/

[StudentofSunTzu]

So precious, but for the sake of these babies' future, please provide intensive outreach of family planning and birth control to the impoverish young females of the society.

[pronatalist]

@limoboss6242

If babies are the future, then what could possibly be wrong with having a populous future? A world abundant in human life, is a bit like having "too much" money in the bank. Why is that a "problem" to be "solved," other than finding a better, more secure place, to store our wealth and investments?

Seems to be, that a world "overflowing" with human life, should have MORE opportunities, not less. Pop expansion is a potent measure of "progress," not trouble, for growing human race.

[pronatalist]

@limoboss6242

America used to be more positive about welcoming natural increase, family size was thought "uncontrollable." No thanks to secular propaganda "education," we Americans have forgotten our values, and are more close-minded than before. People weren't so uptight, and stuff was built to accommodate pop, now it's more gap between rich and poor, perks for elites, and who cares about the poor? Poor don't need gov handouts to buy off votes and make them dependent upon gov, they need JOBS.

[pronatalist]

@limoboss6242

I mean communal showers in the gym, school, fitness club, or public swimming pool. Private shower stalls allow inappropriate behavior, are inefficient, and too much walls-work for janitors to keep clean. If people want all that luxury, they can stay home, or choose to pay the higher dues at some fancy fitness facility.

Communal, or common, shower rooms, because pop is high, and we need to move people along and keep costs down. Example of accommodating, not complaining of high pop

[pronatalist]

@limoboss6242

Gov is supposed to "level the playing field," by enforcing some basic rules, making sure people and companies compete fair, but gov is not supposed to pick winners and losers, nor bail anybody out. That should be the job of for-profit businesses, volunteers, and charities.

Taxpayers should not pay for perks for criminal elites, and we should build stuff for populous many. I like example of communal showers. Efficient for large groups, move along, get done, without being pushed.

[pronatalist]

@limoboss6242

How can gov assist the people and provide basic services, when the politicians are too busy being into everybody's pockets and into our business? Gov is supposed to punish evil doers and build roads and bridges. Not much else really. Other things are done better, by private businesses, volunteers, entrepreneurs

Not sure which basic services you refer to? I am against Big Brother gov, against much gov spending. But dependable trash pickup, infrastructure for populous many, is good