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FORGET SEX, WATCH TV

Forget sex and watch television to control the number of children you have. That was the personal advice Prime Minister Patrick Manning had for residents of Thompson Gardens, Tarouba, who last week protested for better living conditions. "Our view is that you should only have the number of children you could support," he told the residents, mainly relocated squatters, at a cottage meeting in the area on Monday night. Manning shared with residents the fact that he was the father of two boys "and they are costing me a fortune to upkeep".
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This is a real laugh and shows the lack of insight by our leadership. Okay, so let us say that for some unknown reason the squatters in our society decide to take in more television until they fall asleep then what happens when they get into bed? Not to mention that you got to have quality programmes that would make you want to stay up to watch it in the first place. Lastly, let us say that squatters decided to watch television for 29 days and only have sex for one day in each month, then I wonder, how many babies could still come each year from the practise. My resolve on this... before opening mouth please engage brain. Decides, all that you see on television, including the commercials is some kind of connotation towards sex.

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Here is some followup to the above:

And also:

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I Was Only Joking

PRIME Minister Patrick Manning said he was only joking...

At a cottage meeting at the Fonclaire Pan Theatre on Dottin Street in San Fernando on Thursday evening, Manning said an attempt was made (by the media) to create discord between himself and the various women's organisations in the country.
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In follow-up to this Thread I have found that there are a lot of people that think like this: do not have children. I have also found that some people become irate with you if you talk about wanting to have many children.

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I have experienced this many times. Many people in all seriousness asked me: "Why do you want to have more?" like if I wanted to commit some sort of crime. In one occasion talking with a young married woman about it, she told me that the reason for it is that Trinidadians value a lot Education and if you have many kids is unrealistic that you will be able to send them all of them to college. Then I asked her: And how many of the people you know who do not have many kids have sent their kids actually to college? No reply. Then I said: That's what I thought, just an excuse.

Then a co-worker told me that it is because women want to work outside the home and if they have too many kids, they cannot do that and the husband would have to be the only provider. And I said: "And what's wrong with that if they can afford it?" She looked at me in total amazement and said: "Are you serious? No man ain't going to tell ME how to spend my money!". Such a gem.