Month: May 2025

Another Good Example

Friends and Family, Gummint

…this time from the Hungarians on raising birth rates.  A couple of eyebrow-raisers:

Mothers can stay at home for three years after giving birth, with the first six months paid at a rate higher than their previous salary – they receive their full gross salary, not just the net amount.

Mothers under 30 are exempt from personal income tax, and mothers with two or more children pay no personal income tax for the rest of their lives.

Married couples expecting or having a child can apply for an interest-free loan up to €30.000 – and if they have three children, the loan is fully forgiven.

The government offers low-interest fixed-rate housing loans for families. In the case of three or more children, families can access up to €127,000.

The government also provides non-refundable financial grants up to €37.500 for families who move to rural areas.

Gotta say that as much as I’m approving of all this assistance, I’m not sure who pays for it all.  Then again, if you offset those costs against what a government might spend on illegal immigrants, then maybe the system will work.

The results so far, though, seem to be pretty good:

In 2010, Hungary ranked last among EU member states in terms of total fertility rate, but according to the latest Eurostat data from 2023, we have risen to third place. This significant progress is largely thanks to the targeted government family support policies implemented over the past fifteen years. As a result, since 2010, 200,000 more children have been born than would have been expected based on previous demographic trends. In parallel with the rise in births, the number of marriages has significantly increased, the number of divorces has decreased. Even the number of abortions has fallen significantly  –  all without the introduction of new restrictive legislation.

Wow.  And the principles behind this initiative are sound, too:

First, increase family incomes so that people have the financial base to start and raise families.

Second, support housing, because having a home is fundamental to starting a family.

Third, ensure long-term financial security for women. A lot of women would like to have families but they are afraid that motherhood would mean an existential risk. We built a safety net to increase the income (and the living standard with it) for women.

If you want people to do something, then subsidize it — especially if that “thing” is ruinously expensive through no fault of theirs.

I’d like to see the results of this in, say, twenty years’ time when this “baby boom” starts getting into the workplace.

But in the meantime, I’m impressed.

Speed Bump #6,325

Grammar Nazism

A twofer from the same publication, filed under “Death By SpelChek”:

“I think a lot of the established community will give the town a wide birth in the summer.”

…and:

Stevie-Sara Russell, 43, from Essex, was vivaciously beaten by her ex-partner.

There’s only one thing to do under the circumstances.

 

News Roundup

Bad News

And if that doesn’t get you going, then this will:


...so much for all those panicky headlines, then.


...you mean that old rascal’s been playing the fool with us — or rather, the stupid Greens — all this time?  And speaking of the sun:


...considering how often the solar power plants have failed during icy winters and scorching summers (i.e. when electric power is most needed), it’s not unreasonable.  And if building those backup plants costs too much and takes too long, they can blame the Greens who put up all those barriers in the first place.
#ServesEmRight #JustDeserts

In Political News:


...and the other 20% want him executed. Compare and contrast to conservatives, 100% of whom want all Commies sent to the gulag or gallows. (Okay, I made that last bit up — but I bet I’m not far off).

Democrat Socialists FAFO:
...give ’em the same treatment that the J6 folks got.

“Reverend” Al Sharpton Doesn’t Like White Political Refugees
...quelle surprise.
#RacistCocksucker

In Education News:


...because DEI.  Just think of using those all those millions to partially settle some student loans… [ducks]

From the Pentagon Papers:


...it’s a start.  Later, we can talk about taking women out of combat units and Navy ships.

Latest from Business News:


...it’s not so much their crappy sludge that’s a problem (we all still loves us our Frosted Flakes, after all);  it’s the fact that their crappy sludge now costs $10 a box.

In The Great Cultural Assimilation Project©:


…

Finally, from the front lines of LGBTOSTFU:


...yeah, that worked SO well for Bud Lite.

And diving into the dumpster of unlinked  

 

And as we drive headlong down :


...no shit?  Well then, have a few impure thoughts on me:

There ya go… ya filthy animals.

Simple Question, Answered

Morons & Idiots

Whenever I’m asked stupid questions involving fights or struggles against Nature, it’s always on the scale of “What chance does a man have against a Great White shark?”

…to which my reply is generally along the lines of:  “Pretty good, provided that the man is sitting in a sturdy boat with a few hand grenades.”

So it is with today’s stupid question:  “How many men would it take to win a fight against a gorilla?”

Answer:  “One, holding a 12ga. shotgun loaded with 00 buckshot.”

Let’s just remember that when it comes to this kind of thing, Man is unquestionably at the top of the food chain.  And the reason this is so is that we don’t fight with our relatively-weak bare hands or with our pathetic little teeth;  we fight with our brains, and those brains are what enabled us to create, build and use things like hand grenades and shotguns.

Give that shotgun to a gorilla, and he’d only swing it like a club — if that.

Just as we are like candy to a lion with its teeth and claws, they are like candy to us with our A-10 Warthog.

Bite on that, Fluffy.

Hell, let’s take that one step further.  If there was to be combat between a lion and a woman…

…and she didn’t even need an A-10.

Influx

Immigration, Trumpism

Alert Reader Pete D. sends me this report*:

First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S.

The U.S. government has officially granted 54 Afrikaans South Africans, white descendants of mainly Dutch colonizers, refugee status and they are expected to land in the U.S. on Monday May 12, three sources with knowledge of the matter have told NPR.

(Note the little “colonizers” snark — it’s NPR, after all.)

And further down:

States that have agreed to take in the South Africans include:  Alabama, California, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Nevada, North Carolina and Iowa.

Not Texas, probably because we have enough / too many Seffricans here already.  And California and New York?  Wait till our newly-minted immigrants who choose those locations try to buy themselves a gun.  (Hint: it’s more difficult than in Seffrica.)

And lastly:

The UN’s International Organization for Migration had refused to be involved in the process.

Of course they would.  These refugees are whities;  only darkies qualify to be refugees because slavery (or something).

Anyway:  Welkom by die States, julle.  Veels geluk.

*Pete, buddy:  WTF are you doing reading NPR?