Hey there man. It's me me. Do not worry about it. I'm here because I got a call from you. I'm pretty sure you go the wrong number but you said your address in it. I get bored easily. The interesting thing is that I used to live here as well. It's been nearly four years. I moved because my dog died in that corner over there where there's that spot over there. After that I found some place cheaper and never got another pet.

I used to cook dinner. The fire alarm would always go off. My dog pissed in the kitchen every morning. I do not know what it is like to be a dog. I've never felt the need to pee anywhere else besides a toilet. The dog belonged to the person who lived here before I did. It hadn't been feed in days. I've never had a dog before so at first I didn't know how to take it. I really didn't want a dog either. But I needed to at least feed it. After I fed him that once I thought that it wasn't so bad, you know. So I kept her around. I got mail from lots of people who lived there before me. One guy kept getting a magazine about knives.

I finished a monster semester that this spring has brought. It was a combination of heavy things and a mess of smells. It was a thing that I want to forget. Yet it is too large to fit through a door, and I can not push it out towards the garbage bin. It was a turn back into a time that was much worse. It was a floor above that time, but it began to sag too much. Most importantly it is nearly over. I, a friend, and a uhaul will be the end for it.

I am preparing for finals late in the game, but I can't help myself from thinking about things other than school. I was trying to figure out the amount of money I would need to save from my summer job. This journey led me to think of a discussion on the radio. The issue of the discussion was societies that have an aging population with fewer young people. To have a good economy based off of socialism, a country would need two things. One thing to be able to support the aging population would be to raise taxes while the other possibility would be to make more babies to support the older generation. Taxes can only go so high, so no matter how determined the citizens are to give certain benefits to their elders there is a limit this is possible.

With the limit in mind I began to think of conversations with people who oppose gay marriage. The main argument I deduced against gay marriage is that gay marriage does not contain the ability to reproduce. An older population would benefit from a younger generation that out numbers the older generation. To the old person, procreation is a tool that keeps himself secure.

In America, the baby boomers have underdone their parents. Baby Boomers have a threat that lurks behind them. These threats are very real and make sense to worry about. But what does that say of marriage and of the virtue of raising a child? In this light, birth is not a moral ideology but a pragmatic investment. I think that it is absurd to see gay marraige as something that will lower the birthrate anyways. I doubt that many people who would consider getting a gay marriage would procreate if they didn't get married. The problem is obviously more complex. Gay people shouldn't get blamed for this problem.

Baby boomers will enter old age with a possibility of financial uncertainty. But lets concider some factors. Baby boomers have not reproduced as much as their predesestors and their children have followed this trend as well. That is part of the problem. Also, the behavor of baby boomers as a whole is recless. We have problems with diet, drugs, and financially unsound spending. These will all be costly. The children of these boomers will mostly like inherit a lot of this behavior as well. Infact, children now are needing health care that was once pertained to an aging person. All of this from a bad diet and lack of excersize.

And so promoting birth without considering the burden of raising a child will not solve the problem either. Children should not be treated as little knick nacks. One has to seriously invest in a child and one must also take responsibility for their own actions as they will model behavior for their children. We as a collection of people are entering into a time that will be lean and mean, yet our behavior is not reflecting this which worsens the problem.