From: Jan de Koning (jan@dekoning.ca)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 16:28:32 EDT
At 12:16 PM 03/06/2003 -0400, RFaussette@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 6/3/03 11:08:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>jan@dekoning.ca writes:
>
>
>>No matter how you want to reason, most maybe all, Christians use some
>>method of "contraception". I am the oldest of 13 children, but how many
>>Christian families with 13 children do you see? Obviously most
>>Christians live in sin, or interpret the Bible differently now.
>>
>>Jan de Koning
>
>Most orthodox jews do not use some method of contraception and still have
>those large families. You should be proud of yours. After all, you haven't
>contributed to a population explosion. Immigration has been massively
>increased to fill the job vacancies in the US. It's not like there are too
>many of us.
>
>rich
I live in a Jewish neighbourhood, and to my knowledge none of them, not
even the orthodox ones has thirteen children or even ten, though our most
orthodox neighbour has as many as we have, maybe less: six. However, it
does not touch upon what I was trying to say. There are circumstances. My
grandfather was the fourth Jan de Koning in his family, the other three
died early in life.
As far as "job vacancies are concerned in the USA, thousands of people
willing to go to the USA, but US or Canadian policies do not allow them
in, as some of my relatives found out. My advice: advertize in Europe or
in third world countries, or train the homeless and poor in the USA to fill
these places.
Again, the fact of contraception policies cannot be viewed on itself, but
must be seen as part of the larger policies of a country. Try to read what
you said from the point of view of an unemployed person in a third world
country, who would gladly move to the USA or Canada, instead of working for
minimum wages in their own country. Some of our policies are
hypocritical. Medical doctors are in short supply it is said here,
iowever, we have doctors with medical doctorates from other countries who
are driving taxis, because their qualifications are not accepted here. A
comparative short examination, followed maybe by a short course might make
some of them qualified, or in some cases welcome assistants in certain places.
Jan de Koning
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