Skip work, make babies, says Russian governor
ULYANOVSK, Russia (Reuters) - The governor of a central Russian province urged couples to skip work on Wednesday and make love instead to help boost Russia’s low birth-rate. And if a woman gives birth in exactly nine months time — on Russia’s national day on June 12 — she will qualify for a prize, perhaps even winning a new home…. “It’s normally something for the home — a fridge or a television set,” Yelena Yakovleva at the Ulyanovsk regional administration press office, said…. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a girl or a boy.
It would be oh, so easy to ridicule this idea as the last dying gasp of of former superpower descending into the mediocrity of becoming just another Third World hellhole. With a tropical storm over us that threatens to drop 10-15 inches of rain onto already beyond-saturated Southeast Texas, spending the day in bed doesn’t sound like a bad idea at all. I don’t know about the baby thing, but the idea of spending the day listening to the rain whilst engaging in some good old recreational rutting might be an enjoyable alternative…and a day off work is something I could really use right about now.
On the other hand, if winning means getting a Russian television or refrigerator, have you really won anything at all??
