[Superman]

Interesting. Blaming is a blast, isn't it? Problem is, Chris points out that successful people tend to not have many kids and then we skip to welfare being to blame for this? No information about changes in the size of poor families. I guess we're pretending they are larger? Returning to the original observation, that very successful people tend to have smaller families, the social movement that seems obviously to be driving this is........the success itself. In America we value money. Commercial success. Accumulation of property and money. We value this above all else. Heck, we consider it a double-coup if someone can become successful and break a few rules in the process. Those rules might be there to encourage fairness, or to prevent cheap shots. But cheap shots are often regarded as shrewd and clever and opportunistic.

I digress. Americans are spending more and more of their precious time in commercial pursuits. It is an all-encompassing endeavor, for many. To the detriment of institutions like family and community. This is a survival of the fittest society we have. And Chris' observations are just SOME of the consequences I find distasteful. No, I do not hate success. But I do love family and community. Perhaps we are not as balanced in our values as we might be ideally. Hmmmm.......