{"id":5939,"date":"2004-06-25T07:27:34","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/25\/now-heres-a-political-stand-we-can-all-support.html"},"modified":"2004-06-25T07:27:34","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T14:27:34","slug":"now_heres_a_pol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/now_heres_a_pol.html","title":{"rendered":"Now here’s a political stand we can all support!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Politicians tell men to have more sex<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conservative politicians are urging German men to have more sex to boost birth rates or risk being labelled “limp” abroad, a newspaper has reported.
\nJohannes Singhammer, a member of parliament and father of six, said Germany’s ageing population needed to produce more offspring to sustain its overstretched pensions system.
\n“Children are our future,” Singhammer told Germany’s Bild newspaper on Friday. “Germans need to work more on that again in bed. Things mustn’t get to the stage where German men are scoffed at abroad for being limp.”<\/p>\n

Okay, well, maybe the “more kids” thing we can do without. But I think a major bi-particsan initiative — Republicans urging “more fufilliment of marital duties” and Dems urging more “responsible birth control usage” — I think we could really renew American interest in politics …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Politicians tell men to have more sex. 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