Well, okay “no” is harsh, but its getting that way.
via Drudge to this story in The New York Sun, Nanny New York City is shrinking.
New York City Birth Rate Plunges
The city’s birth rate hit a 25-year low in 2005, even as Mayor Bloomberg is projecting a population spike of 1 million people by the year 2030.
The city’s newest release of vital statistics — an annual compendium of deaths, births, disease, and accidents — shows that 122,725 babies were born in New York City in 2005, or 1,374 fewer than in 2004.
City health officials say the birth rate, a tally of the number of births per 1,000 people, dropped nearly 8% in the last decade and mirrors the national trend toward smaller families started later in life.
“Families are having fewer children,” the deputy commissioner for epidemiology at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Lorna Thorpe, said. “That is a nationwide trend and we’re seeing it here in New York City.”
Hmm — are they slowly eliminating themselves?
December 22nd, 2006 at 8:44 pm
It’s amazing to see how these people so want to change the world but don’t contribute to its future!
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:47 am
Yeah, I think so. That’s why Moveon dot org sent out an order to their followers some time in 2005: liberals need to f*** more.