What Conservatives Are Afraid To Tell the People About the Economic Crisis

First Things hits what I call often the elephant in the room. See What Should Conservatives Do About Obamanomics?

3) The Republican party has been reluctant to take on the moral issues that separate conservative libertarians and religious conservatives. These are decisive in the present crisis, for reasons I have tried to make clear in a number of essays on the subject at Asia Times Online and elsewhere.
The first thing that conservatives have to tell Americans is: “You are poorer because you failed to bring up enough children. The decline of the traditional family is undermining the American economy.”

This is very apparent. However conservative know this is dangerous ground. Even pro-life Bobby Jindal knows this no doubt .HOW DARE THE GOVT TELL ME THAT is likely to be the wail from many conservative quarters. But it is true. Europe and Japan is the canary in the coal mine as to this.

Much more at the link