Yahoo – AFP,
May 15, 2016
Rome (AFP) - Italy's health minister is proposing doubling a 'baby bonus' incentive for couples to have more children to combat what she calls a catastrophic decline in the country's birth rate.
If the current trend in Italy were to continue, there would be 40 percent fewer births in 2020 compared to 2010, health minister Beatrice Lorenzin said (AFP Photo/ Jean-Sebastien Evrard) |
Rome (AFP) - Italy's health minister is proposing doubling a 'baby bonus' incentive for couples to have more children to combat what she calls a catastrophic decline in the country's birth rate.
"If we
carry on as we are and fail to reverse the trend, there will be fewer than
350,000 births a year in 10 years' time, 40 percent less than in 2010 -- an
apocalypse," the minister, Beatrice Lorenzin, said in an interview
published Sunday by daily La Repubblica.
Lorenzin
told the paper she wanted to double the standard baby bonus, currently 80 euros
($90) a month for low-to-middle income families, and introduce higher payments
for second and subsequent children to encourage bigger families.
Italian
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi
looks on during a meeting at the
Capitol Hill in
Rome, Italy, May 5,
2016. Reuters/Max Rossi
|
Lorenzin
wants to expand eligibility to all under-threes (thereby including those born
before 2015) and to extend the provision for an additional three years,
covering all babies born up until the end of 2020.
Higher-income
families, those with taxable earnings of more than 25,000 euros per year, are
not eligible for the scheme, excluding about a third of parents.
The
allowances are paid at higher rates for the poorest -- those declaring less
than 7,000 euros a year to the taxman.
Under the
new proposals, the payment for second and subsequent children would be 240
euros/month for average families and 400 euros/month for the poorest.
Lorenzin is
an influential member of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's centre-left government
and would not have floated the increased payments without a green light from
him, political commentators noted.
The
proposals may however raise eyebrows in Brussels, where the European Commission
is pressing Renzi to move faster on cutting the country's budget deficit as a
way of bringing down its huge national debt, currently equivalent to more than
130 percent of GDP.
Lorenzin's
proposals would add 2.2 billion euros to public spending over six years, her
department estimates.
"In
five years we have lost more than 66,000 births (per year) - that is the
equivalent of a city the size of Siena," the minister said. "If we
link this to the increasing number of old and chronically ill people, we have a
picture of a moribund country."
Lorenzin
said the drive to get Italians to have more children would not be restricted to
fiscal incentives.
"Couples
have to understand that waiting until after 35 to have children can be a
problem," she said.
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"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
“… 3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…
Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
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