tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17839575.post4061974121881785944..comments2024-03-17T23:50:03.863+08:00Comments on Government and Taxes: Population Control 10: Anger and Coercion in Pushing RH BillBienvenido Oplas Jrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07799756132761366267noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17839575.post-38246814251740404892012-09-11T13:51:34.094+08:002012-09-11T13:51:34.094+08:00FROM POPULATION TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: MALTHUSIAN...FROM POPULATION TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: MALTHUSIAN ARITHMETIC by Mohan Rao.<br /><br />Published in 2004. Exactly as Mr Oplas said it, larger population, better economy. Google it.<br /><br />I hear you Mr Oplas. I'm a believer.Vincenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17839575.post-1888473495357843072012-08-09T08:16:08.609+08:002012-08-09T08:16:08.609+08:00lets think about "people are assets" aga...lets think about "people are assets" again. <br /><br />actually, practically anything can be an asset. anything can earn some return. <br /><br />the ONLY question is "how much"?<br /><br />the return rises as you pour in money and improvements on assets. land can be fallow or fertile, di ba? <br /><br />fallow people are pretty sad, and pretty desperate to earn whatever to live.<br /><br />the ability to control family size encourages more investment in assets, and raises their return.GabbyDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17839575.post-30261296513792041562012-08-09T07:40:23.710+08:002012-08-09T07:40:23.710+08:00maybe you can write another essay to clear up &quo...maybe you can write another essay to clear up "default mode" means.<br /><br />people don't have "defaults". default means :" a selection made usually automatically or without active consideration due to lack of a viable alternative "<br /><br />people dont have defaults, in the sense as above. we are products of our environments, our history, our genetics and our society. <br /><br />this process begins even before people are born, and continue until a person dies.<br /><br />thus, a person born into a poor circumstance is SHAPED by that circumstance.<br /><br />as public policy people, we have to ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. di ba?<br /><br />so maybe you can think deeper about what "people" are. <br /><br />if you say that theivery is not an asset (u can see that it is an asset for the person!), you have to re-think what that means for "people are assets". <br /><br />if people arent all assets, how does that impact a more nuanced form of the ability to shape family size?GabbyDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17839575.post-59611461535398294052012-08-09T06:45:29.613+08:002012-08-09T06:45:29.613+08:00This is only the comments section. Read again my o...This is only the comments section. Read again my original article, I wrote in the 2nd to the last paragraph,<br /><br />"People are assets, not liabilities. This should be the “default mode” in looking at them. The real liabilities – criminals – should be apprehended. That is the most important function of government: to promulgate the rule of law, to protect private property rights, to protect citizens from bullies and lawless elements, to institute a fair and credible justice system."Bienvenido Oplas Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07799756132761366267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17839575.post-61817944260736062392012-08-09T06:37:06.529+08:002012-08-09T06:37:06.529+08:00so, if not all people are assets, what is the rati...so, if not all people are assets, what is the rationale for writing "People are assets, not liabilities" in your original article?<br /><br />you continue to say " A bigger population means more workers and more entrepreneurs; more producers and more consumers."<br /><br />which is something you deny above... a bigger population also means more theives, bad people, etc....<br /><br />the latter becomes ESPECIALLY TRUE when they grow up poor. they become deliquent youths.GabbyDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17839575.post-55812006018699638122012-08-09T06:24:36.710+08:002012-08-09T06:24:36.710+08:00Read again above. If people becomes thieves, wheth...Read again above. If people becomes thieves, whether as small time pick pockets or plunderers in government, they are liabilities. The role of government is to go after and penalize those liabilities, send them to jails, protect private property rights. All others are assets, whether they are nannies or scientists, jeepney drivers or company executives.Bienvenido Oplas Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07799756132761366267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17839575.post-65455354665558862062012-08-09T03:56:14.421+08:002012-08-09T03:56:14.421+08:00I dont think people think people arent "asset...I dont think people think people arent "assets" in the sense that they have the potential to earn.<br /><br />the problem is how much would they be able to earn? what would they have to do to earn it?<br /><br />one can become a thief -- this person is technically an asset (to himself!). <br /><br />not all assets are the same. you have to KNOW that, right?GabbyDnoreply@blogger.com