Not if you destroy the public education system past the point of repair and bring back the good ol’ days of child labor they aren’t.

Children: the other cheap labor source

I have it on good authority that that is merely genetic. 8^D

That goddamned birth control! It’s ruined everything! That’s why the 19th Century is the model they’re looking for. The 1950’s were just too damn progressive…

Ah, the 1800’s. Think about the beauty of virtually unrestrained Capitalism! The simple strategy of low wages combined with control of the Company Store and the Company Town! Limited travel, clearly defined sexual roles, limited class mobility, little education, few opportunities! Some guy loses his arm in a dangerous machine - no OSHA, no crime, baby! Wrap a handkerchief around the stump and send him home to his family, then hire another cheap and disposable worker. Unlimited pollution! No income taxes! Maybe bring actual slavery back! Cool!

It was a freakin’ paradise on earth!…

I actually got the “you smart women owe us some kids” arguement from a guy at school the other day, and I never get how these people don’t see that as long as having a bunch of kids is a worse decision than having a few kids, ain’t no one gonna do it. Kids are freaking expensive, and most people have enough smarts to put their own interests as an aspiring middle-class family ahead of society’s interests in a bunch of wage slave cannon fodder.

“Hmmm, have two kids and enjoy a real vacation every couple of years or have six kids for the fatherland? Hmmm, decisions, decisions.” I especially love the social security argument - I’m in prime breeding years, which also makes me young enough to believe that social security is not going to be around when it’s my turn to cash in. So limiting my overall earning (and saving!) potential by having extra kids in the hopes that, if everyone else does it too! today’s broken system will survive long enough for me to benefit from it seems like the worst possible plan.