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Thursday, March 28, 2002

Babies Not A Booming

The Japanese Government is asking their people to start making more babies. They’re very serious about this too. They are thinking of cutting back the 18-hour workday and stopping the mandatory drinks with the boss policies. No wonder they’re having a population problem, if I had to work 18 hours a day and then go have a drink with my boss I wouldn’t have time to do the ‘mambo of love’ with my woman either. And when the hell would I have time to raise a kid on that schedule? My biggest priority would be to get the hell out of that country. No wonder they call us ‘Lazy American’s’; we take a freaking day of now and again.

The reason for the concern is that almost 18% their population is 65 or older, but their birth rate has dropped to 1.35 births per woman. The end result is not enough new workers to take care of the retiring ones. But 52% of women and 40% of men shun the ideas of marriage and childrearing as sources of fulfillment. With numbers like that, I don’t think the meager trimming of the workday will be enough. I think more drastic solutions will be needed and I have a few suggestions to help.

1) An all Barry White, all the time radio station.
2) A Logan’s Run policy that states at the age of 60, you’re done. This can be combined with a Soylent Green policy if the food supplies start running short.
3) Making ‘Ruppies’ an over-the-counter drug and eliminating all forms of birth control.
4) And the most affective, we will send you some of our NBA and NFL players; that should jump-start the baby making process.