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America's Demographic Crash In One Chart

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While the Japanification of markets has been a much-discussed topic in recent years, the two nations share another disturbing trend. In 2012, the land of the rising sun saw sales of adult diapers exceed those of baby diapers... and as the following chart from The Wall Street Journal shows, that trend is rapidly occurring in the land of the free...

 

 

As The Wall Street Journal notes,

Procter & Gamble Co. is getting back into a business it exited more than a decade ago—making products for adults suffering from incontinence—as it takes aim at the growing ranks of aging Americans.

 

Births peaked in the U.S. at 4.32 million in 2007 and declined for five years before leveling off recently. Some 3.96 million babies were born in the U.S. last year, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention.

 

The number was up slightly from 2012, but the country’s fertility rate dropped to a record low of 62.9 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age.

 

Meanwhile, over 3 million Americans are now turning 65 each year, according to the Pew Research Center.”

 

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Tue, 09/09/2014 - 21:15 | 5200217 Bear
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.gov believes that kids are a plague

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 20:49 | 5200097 dochood
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South Korea spent years and billions on propaganda campaigns to get women to have fewer and fewer children.  Now their government is in a panic state, realizing they went way too far.

Now a woman (like my niece) who has three or more children is called a "patriot" there.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 21:00 | 5200145 Implied Violins
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Now Japan shares our fate? I thought this would stay...incontinent.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 21:16 | 5200223 p00k1e
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We need to start euthanizing by net worth. 

No income or on any form of dole  - whack.

C'mon, we’re going to sit here and spend limited resources on adult diapers. 

 

Pay your own way!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 00:46 | 5200781 BooMushroom
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Darwin used to do that for us. Now you're proposing a governmental solution to a problem caused by too much government.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 21:27 | 5200260 herohedge
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People pooping their pants:

(insert image of downward sloping graph)

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 21:39 | 5200308 CheapBastard
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Merikans are so tapped out it’s crazy. The neighbor who manages a fairly large retail store said about 30% of the credit cards are turned down at the counter. He said the buyer usually fumbles for another card and when that fails tries to write check. He said most of HR time spent on new employees is teaching them to spot fraud at the checkout counter.

Almost nothing has trickled down to Main Street of the Trillions that were handed to bankers and Wall Street Robber Barons, he said.  

 

The sad news is the main company may close his location and then he’ll be pounding the pavement looking for a job [along with about 38 of his co-workers], putting his house up for sale, probably, and so on.

 

 

 “Dismal,” he said, since he’s 52 with little other skill then retail. I guess he’s missed Barry’s “Summa of Rekovery.”

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 22:05 | 5200409 El Hosel
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"Trillions that were handed to bankers and Wall Street Robber Barons", he said.  

..... and the shaft handed down to "therestofus", I said.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 21:43 | 5200324 johnmack
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offtopic but.....german tv shows nazi symbols on helmets of ukraine soldiers

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/09/09/25964406-german-tv-shows-n...

on NBC NEWS no less!

also on news today

sotloff family spokesman stated on CNN that "moderate" free syria rebel army sold sotloff to isis.  makes me wonder ig this story will get buried or what.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 21:53 | 5200363 Rhal
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This is worth its own topic.

Now any push for NATO to invade Ukraine could trigger the breakup of NATO.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 21:49 | 5200350 Rhal
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Bonus question: How many of those adult diapers are used by gambling addicts (without incontinence).

A: Too many.

Somethin' to think about when sitting on that stool at the VLT...

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 21:55 | 5200373 Bogdog
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I poop, therefore, I am.

We may have already reached "peak diaper". 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20784-artificial-anal-sphincter-co...

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 22:04 | 5200408 MrButtoMcFarty
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We used to call it gargoyling....That's when you take a dump on the roof .....preferably close to the edge....of a building.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 22:10 | 5200437 falconflight
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They hate us because of our diapers...

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 23:42 | 5200685 luckystars
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Bush "They hate us for our freedoms"

exactamento, his handlers did.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 05:03 | 5200963 22winmag
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I'd say excremento in this instance.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 22:14 | 5200445 talisman
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maybe due to adult reaction to losing their
jobs, their incomes, their homes, finally
realizing how bad the economy really is??
rather than simple demographics??

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 22:13 | 5200447 Solio
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Uranium Trioxide attacks the kidneys anywhere in the world. Where might that come from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_trioxide

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 22:47 | 5200569 TheGreatRecovery
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THANK GOD for this news, which is the exact OPPOSITE of disturbing.  Who wants to live on a small planet with ten BILLION humans?  Such a planet would have nothing but pavement, factory farms, poisoned oceans, and all police states.  And war.  Even now we are told to expect nothing but war in the Near East, because of the simple arithmetic that there are more people than water, and more people all the time.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 23:28 | 5200653 luckystars
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do the earth  a favor and kill yourself and your entire line, right now.

Winning Earth!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 06:57 | 5201045 Farqued Up
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Is that what is meant by " Lead by Example"?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 08:09 | 5201137 TheGreatRecovery
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I'm already a zombie.  What more do you want?  :-)

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 08:43 | 5201236 TheGreatRecovery
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To a business oligarch, it's all about profits, and profits come from sales, sales come from customers, and customers come from people, so the more people the better.  And the more children, the more people.  So if the oligarch can give "generously" to a church that tells the people to pump out lots of kids, he will profit more, and feel happier.  But, of course, as population increases, the natural resources per person decreases, which is why we now have children trying to escape gruesome population/resource ratios in Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.  And people fighting over water in the Near East.  They are all refugees of their local business oligarchs who fund their local churches to tell their parents to have lots of children and not worry whether there were sufficient resources per child available to give those children a chance at a good life.  In addition, as population increases, natural resources are actually wiped out.  Rain forests are burned, the Gulf of Mexico is poisoned by BP, the northern Pacific is poisoned by Fukushima.  The planet's coral reefs die, one by one.  The buffalo are driven to extinction, and all large animals in Africa face threat of extinction.  Panda bears in China.  And if the oceans warm up enough, we may lose the great fisheries at the poles, where so much sea life starts for the simple physics fact that cold water holds more oxygen than warm water.  As we warm the oceans, we decrease those great fisheries.  It goes on and on, and Middle Class families grocery bills all over the world get higher and higher.  But, for perhaps a couple more generations, the oligarchs will be able to helicopter away with their golden parachutes to Jackson Hole, the Alps, or the Caymans, and tell themselves that they made their immediate families better off.  Until there are no more coral reefs in the Caymans and the snow melts in the Rockies and the Alps.  But during that next couple of generations, more and more children of the 99% will be driven down out of the Middle Class by the global steady decrease in resources/person due to "population inflation".  The same way that the German people were driven down out of their Middle Class by the monetary inflation the German oligarchs created in 1923.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 08:12 | 5201144 TheGreatRecovery
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We all came from Africa.  We are all the same line.  By the way, nice stars, and nice tree, too.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 23:12 | 5200623 luckystars
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This was the target on 911

http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/upload/72565/images/FalseFlag911_55...

This whole war on terror has been fake.

Sure we bombed Iraq and started killing people, of course they would fight back. When the Shia wouldn't fight masked guys blew up the Golden Mosque.

I read a lot of different blogs and I heard things before from "Americans" like "Fight back Shia" they wanted a civil war.

ISIS is color revolution. I said day one the Arab Spring was fake, it was pushed by Anderson Cooper and that Arab traitor at the Hoover Institute that worked for Wolfowitz , Facebook and Twitter and the fake rape victims. Where are the rape victims now, or the news about killings in Libya? Do tell.....mofos

Look what Egypt got out of that, military dictatorship.

They moved it to Libya, then Syria.

We were always the target, they hated our representative republic from DAY one.

Its all a lie pushed by the Jew controlled media and US government.

Putin is fake, he is one of them like Obama is one of them.

We are the target.

Once Bush said "the American Economy is Very Resilient" as if it wasn't crumbling fast enough for them.

They are going to rot in hell for this, every single traitor to freedom, peace and truth.

LONG PITCHFORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very hot place for those Satan worshiping Jews and Xtian Zionists who hate America and God.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 23:22 | 5200644 ms8172
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People are shitting their pants over the S&P 500!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 23:53 | 5200700 luckystars
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I've started to work on a time capsule that I will bury in a steel box.

Something hopefully will be found in a million years, or a billion years once they

blow this place up. It will be like finding the history of Atlantis.

Im going to put Ron Pauls picture in there. He was 100% right, it was not about

war for empire per se, it was about destroying America and its liberty via war, bailouts, spending which got us to this point.

He knew exactly what their plan was, he was the smartest man in congress for years.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 05:07 | 5200965 Monty Burns
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All true. But RP still held off on really identifying the perps.  Suppose he'd have had an auto accident had he done so.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 09:36 | 5201455 luckystars
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He did, he pointed to the Jewish federal reserve.

He grilled Bernanke without mercy.

He pointed the way

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 09:42 | 5201493 Martian Moon
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There is a video out there with RP stating in a speech that the cabal that killed Kennedy is now fully in control

To which the audience started chanting "End the Fed"

But I agree, RP never went full truther on mainstream

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 00:24 | 5200736 limacon
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And all the other old-age markers as well . See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2007/12/old-age-markers.html

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 00:41 | 5200771 JoJoJo
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Younger Americans are way behind in paying their unfair Obamacare premiums that go directly to geezer's medical needs. If you like your pantload you can keep your pantload.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 00:46 | 5200779 Sages wife
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Sad thing, this year we'll lose 3 million people who know how to turn a wrench, or mop a floor.  Entitlement is a bitch.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 01:02 | 5200799 Lin S
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Non-issue.

We can just import tens of millions of foreigners, give them all citizenship, and that will solve everything.

/sarc

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 02:19 | 5200862 TheObsoleteMan
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Oh yeah? Well we've got a secret weapon that Japan doesn't have. It's called: MEXICANS!! The average mezcun girl starts popping pups when she is 15 years old, and doesn't stop until she hits menopause. I'd say we are in the chips {as long as they don't go back home!}

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 02:31 | 5200869 Debugas
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the number of children living on Earth has stabilized in the early 2000s and is aprox 2 bln children worldwide

what we seeing now is simply those children becoming adults and getting replaced by new children hence for a while we will see increasing number of adults and no increase in number of children

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 02:47 | 5200874 CHX
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So, long senior diapers; so long, baby diapers

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 03:16 | 5200895 GrandPaFred
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Muslim women must have been excluded from survey as I see most have 3-7 little kids circling them everywhere they go...

 

UK's most popular male baby name still is Mohammad 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 03:51 | 5200921 grekko
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You probably saw another member of the FSA.  Very common sight here in the USA.  Cradle to grave welfare recipient.  MOAR kids = Moar Moola!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 04:50 | 5200953 Monty Burns
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Listen up.  America's 'demograhic crash' is not about age dispersion. It's about Whites, the people who built America into the world's most powerful and advanced nation, being systematically and deliberately replaced and mutated by people fleeing the Third World places that they themselves created. National Geographic crows that the USA in 2050 will be like Brazil today. ' Let us applaud these growing rates of intermixing for what they are: An encouraging symbol of a rapidly changing America. 2050 remains decades away, but if these images are any preview, it's definitely a year worth waiting for'.  

http://irishsavant.blogspot.ie/2014/06/america-in-2050and-its-beautiful....

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 06:32 | 5201021 Comte d'herblay
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AS in all things 'demographic', there is less there than meets the eye.

Positing another theory, a provable one, that cannot be refuted, and is therefore the real truth, deeply hidden behind the false one:

About 40 some years ago the Supreme Court had in its ranks a satanic creature who decided only he knew when life begins, after that 1 in 300,000,000 give or take spermatazoa penetrated that one fertile egg and that life should not end for murderers, killers, and multiple rapists,   William Brennan, a supposed Conservative. 

Mr. Brennan, god hisownself, decided that killing fetuses, and little babies was moral, humane, ethical and legal, big man that he was, and that killing a serial killer who murdered 50 women, was immoral, unethical, barbaric, and illegal. 

The consequences of half of that decision, abortion, singlehandedly gave women the right to fuck without consequence, and who took advantage of that?  Mostly white women. They have terminated over 40,000,000 white men and women since then, while the other races have outreproduced them 7 to 1.

THAT is the reason for white extinction, and only that.  

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 07:04 | 5201051 RhoneGSM
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If they can't out smart us they can out number us?

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 08:32 | 5201195 BeetleBailey
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They already can out-shit us!

 

Hey...can...shit...I MADE A FUNNY!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 05:45 | 5200981 desirdavenir
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reality check, here. The figures on the graphic tell that the sell of baby diapers is still ~3 times the sell of adult diapers...

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 05:52 | 5200989 ArmyofOne
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Don't worry we have hundreds of millions of children waiting at the border for their free diapers.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 06:09 | 5201000 justsayin2u
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Never trust a fart

Never waste a hard-on

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 06:46 | 5201036 Farqued Up
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In Nevada never pass a gas station so the women can unload, not a tree or bush big enough to cover the bush of their own.

Men can pee anywhere and we do.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 08:00 | 5201116 the not so migh...
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i had my gail bladder ripped out 5 weeks ago, i am pooping 5 times a day now.  Feeling healther then ever.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 10:39 | 5201748 'argar the 'orrible
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What is a 'gail' bladder.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 10:54 | 5201812 'argar the 'orrible
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What is a 'gail' bladder.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 08:05 | 5201129 homiegot
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Fuck it.  A diaper is a diaper.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 08:30 | 5201190 d edwards
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Has anyone seen the new "Expendables 3" movie?

 

Considering the advanced age of the stars, maybe it should be called "The Depends-ables." (rim shot)

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 09:29 | 5201427 gcjohns1971
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Public Welfare payments are the cause, to include generous pension payouts not regulated by what was paid in.

Those who work are too busy working and paying taxes to have children.

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 09:32 | 5201439 yogibear
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Kinda looking like Japan.

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