Valuetainment - February 24, 2026


How to Fix America’s Population Decline


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16 minutes

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195.5398

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3,291

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357

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17

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12


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Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today we're going to talk about the 1.58 problem that is the biggest crisis taking place in America.
00:00:05.020 This is the lowest birth rate we've ever had in the history of America.
00:00:08.080 And by the way, last year only 3.6 million babies were born in America.
00:00:12.640 Do you know three times in America we went on a run that we had 4 million kids every year?
00:00:18.040 Once was 5 years, once was 7 years, and once was 11 years.
00:00:22.320 We're going to talk about what that era was.
00:00:23.820 Then we're going to talk about why we stopped making babies.
00:00:26.140 Then I'm going to give you some radical, radical solutions that if you like it, I want you to share it
00:00:32.440 because I'm going to give you a goal at the end because we want the White House to have this as a goal
00:00:37.280 to announce from the top at the White House for us to decide to chase this one magical number
00:00:43.660 that I think we can pull up, but I'm going to need your help to get this message out there.
00:00:47.440 So if you get value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.
00:00:56.140 Okay, so let me tell you why I'm excited about this, because we are launching the new How to Fix Series,
00:01:06.780 How to Fix Anything, How to Fix the Child Birth Rate, How to Fix Disney,
00:01:10.360 How to Fix whatever you want to talk about, and you'll let us know what some of the topics are.
00:01:14.000 We'll attack that.
00:01:14.660 And by the way, stick around to the very end because some of you guys,
00:01:17.440 the first five that menek me something, you're going to get something special,
00:01:20.620 but stick around to the very end.
00:01:21.540 So let's get right into it.
00:01:22.900 1.58.
00:01:24.020 By the way, you know what the highest number is?
00:01:26.140 For birth rate, boom, our record is 3.77 in 1957, but we will come back to this.
00:01:34.260 So let's go look at some of the numbers here that we have.
00:01:37.140 Check this out.
00:01:38.060 1910, America's population was 92 million people.
00:01:42.560 That year, we had 2.77 million newborn babies born.
00:01:47.720 FYI, 2025 was 3.6 million.
00:01:51.000 115 years later, it's almost the same number.
00:01:54.680 Look at this, birds per 1,000 population, 30.1, the highest in the last 110 years.
00:02:02.520 Then we go to 1920, 106 million.
00:02:05.000 2.95, 27.7.
00:02:07.600 1930, population 123, we go to 2.6.
00:02:11.040 1940, 132, 2.5.
00:02:13.460 1950, 151.
00:02:15.320 Look at this, 3.632.
00:02:16.840 Do you know in 1950, we had more kids than we had in 2025?
00:02:23.560 In 1950, with a population of 151, they, the 151, beat America's 340 million today.
00:02:33.440 Think about that, what that looks like.
00:02:35.300 That's like a smaller army going against the bigger one, and the smaller army beats the
00:02:39.440 bigger one.
00:02:39.900 In making babies, then we go 1960, 179, 4.257 million.
00:02:46.880 720, 03, 3.71 million.
00:02:49.460 80, 226, 3.6 million.
00:02:52.280 1990, 248, 4.179 million.
00:02:55.500 Then we go 2000, 281, population 4 million.
00:02:58.760 2010, 308, 3.99.
00:03:01.060 2020, 331, 3.61.
00:03:03.460 And in 2025, we have 3.6 million kids.
00:03:07.440 So now, what are the three times I talked about that we went on a run of having 4 million babies
00:03:10.980 every single year?
00:03:12.160 I'll break it down for you.
00:03:13.200 The first one was 1954 to 1964.
00:03:20.800 During that 11-year run, we had 11 years, every single year, Americans had 4 million plus babies.
00:03:28.340 Lowest was 4 million 27.
00:03:30.260 The highest we hit was 4.308.
00:03:32.780 Guess what?
00:03:33.700 That's 1957.
00:03:35.320 What was the record for us?
00:03:37.020 1957, 3.77.
00:03:39.020 Why?
00:03:39.840 Post-World War, people are coming back, seeing the wives, they're making babies.
00:03:43.360 And baby boomers.
00:03:44.560 Next run.
00:03:45.100 We had five year in a row, 89 to 93.
00:03:47.900 4 million to 4 million 179.
00:03:49.780 Why is that?
00:03:50.680 Regionomics, affordability, economy, people are making money.
00:03:53.540 Let's have kids.
00:03:54.240 And boomers started entering the workforce.
00:03:56.440 They want to have a family.
00:03:57.400 They're buying houses.
00:03:58.260 So the next move is having babies.
00:03:59.600 Then from 2000 to 2009, believe it or not, it was a record run we went on.
00:04:04.720 Seven years.
00:04:05.620 Boom.
00:04:05.980 4 million to 4.3.
00:04:07.660 Why?
00:04:08.580 Strong job market, affordability to buy a house, and then high immigrant fertility.
00:04:13.940 So immigrants who were here, they had first generation immigrants that were born here.
00:04:20.100 Their parents were having a lot of babies.
00:04:21.580 That kind of helped us out with the numbers that we have.
00:04:23.940 Now, let's go to the next part here.
00:04:25.140 As we're looking at this, you may say, Pat, why did we get here?
00:04:28.260 How did this happen?
00:04:29.780 Okay.
00:04:29.960 These are the events, in my opinion.
00:04:32.680 Okay.
00:04:32.900 I want you to tear it apart, and I'm okay with this, but I'm not concerned about hurting
00:04:36.760 your feelings.
00:04:37.320 I'm sharing my ideas.
00:04:38.520 And what I see some of these leaks are, because we have to address this issue.
00:04:42.740 People say, oh my God, you know, but Patrick, we can't afford to have, U.S. can't even fit
00:04:48.480 everybody in America.
00:04:49.800 What are we going to do if we overpopulate?
00:04:52.600 Do you know the entire United States population, 340 million, can fit in Texas?
00:04:57.120 Do you know when you think about the biggest countries in the world with square miles,
00:05:00.900 Russia's number one?
00:05:02.120 You know who's number two?
00:05:03.140 Number two is Canada.
00:05:04.640 Number three is U.S.
00:05:05.680 Do you know India and China have a billion plus, billion four, billion three?
00:05:09.160 Both of them.
00:05:10.000 China's smaller than us.
00:05:11.420 India's smaller than us.
00:05:12.840 We have plenty of space to keep having babies in America, and we have the economy for.
00:05:18.000 But why do we stop making babies?
00:05:19.720 Let's look at it.
00:05:20.880 How do we go from 3.77 to 1.58?
00:05:24.520 Number one, women entering the workforce.
00:05:26.780 By the way, in 1910, women entered the workforce because husband went to World War I.
00:05:31.660 They were forced to.
00:05:32.500 In the 40s, women entered the workforce because of World War II.
00:05:36.380 They had no choice.
00:05:37.540 They had to.
00:05:38.640 In the 70s, it became permanent.
00:05:41.020 It was no longer a thing.
00:05:42.120 FYI, remember how I said 1957 is year only had 3.77.
00:05:46.120 Do you know what percentage of women were in the workforce?
00:05:48.980 35%.
00:05:49.380 You know what that number is today?
00:05:51.440 65 to 70% are in the workforce today, and that's permanent.
00:05:56.200 Some of you guys are probably in your late 20s, women, you're watching and saying,
00:05:59.360 how dare he say this?
00:06:01.080 Because you don't know the history because back in the days, you were able to stay home
00:06:04.700 and raise the kids.
00:06:05.900 That's the difference.
00:06:06.800 You're choosing to do that today because that's what happened when we all started working.
00:06:10.920 So it became a normal thing.
00:06:12.300 All of us are like, normal thing.
00:06:13.660 We're all supposed to be doing this.
00:06:14.640 Let's go to the next one.
00:06:16.520 Inovit.
00:06:17.100 Inovit in 1960 was the first FDA-approved birth control, which was only available to married
00:06:23.240 women in certain states.
00:06:24.700 Not everybody could take it.
00:06:25.860 Wait a minute.
00:06:26.520 Birth control?
00:06:27.100 I don't even have to think about it.
00:06:29.260 I don't even need to go and call Mr. Trojan.
00:06:31.760 Nope.
00:06:32.240 Oh my God.
00:06:32.800 This is awesome, right?
00:06:34.300 What happened?
00:06:35.160 Let's go.
00:06:36.300 And then what are we not doing?
00:06:37.420 Making babies.
00:06:38.220 Okay, let's go to the next one.
00:06:39.660 Roe v. Wade.
00:06:41.240 What year?
00:06:42.520 1973.
00:06:43.620 Do you know since 1973 when we do abortions, how many total abortions have happened in America?
00:06:49.100 America, 65,464,000 abortions have happened in America since Roe v. Wade.
00:06:59.300 Imagine if that was actually here, and imagine what our birth rate would be, what America
00:07:03.840 would like.
00:07:04.260 How many of these were presidents?
00:07:05.920 How many of these were incredible generals, innovators, inventors?
00:07:08.980 We will never know.
00:07:10.260 Number four, age of marriage.
00:07:11.860 In 1957 was 20.
00:07:14.120 Today, it's 28 to 30 for women.
00:07:18.400 Age of marriage.
00:07:19.140 Number five, culture shifted to individualism.
00:07:22.780 It's about me.
00:07:23.880 Selfishness.
00:07:24.460 What about me?
00:07:25.180 Honey, just care about you.
00:07:27.020 I was watching a debate the other day between two women, and one lady says, who the hell wants
00:07:31.420 to be able to drop off their kids to taekwondo when they hate taekwondo and being an unpaid
00:07:36.640 Uber driver?
00:07:37.960 And the other lady says, what a selfish way of thinking.
00:07:40.780 She called her a different word.
00:07:41.860 If you want to find a clip, I'll send you the link as well.
00:07:45.360 But then what is it?
00:07:46.120 It's about me.
00:07:46.820 What about me?
00:07:47.680 My body doesn't look the same after I have a kid.
00:07:51.100 You know, if I don't have kids, I just want to be able to wake up.
00:07:55.340 And these celebrities I love, I'm 55 years old, never had a kid, don't have a husband,
00:08:00.300 wake up next to a 26-year-old after I finished a bottle of, you know, whatever, vodka.
00:08:04.620 Life is awesome.
00:08:06.780 And I'm like, oh, my God, I want to be like this girl when I grow up.
00:08:09.160 Ah, lonely.
00:08:10.780 My God, it's lonely.
00:08:11.900 But it's working.
00:08:12.860 They're converting a lot of different people into that mindset.
00:08:15.120 Next, college education.
00:08:17.120 Do you know women get 57% to 58% of all the college degrees?
00:08:21.240 Women get it, not men.
00:08:22.320 In 1800, children equaled asset.
00:08:25.880 You're like, man, the more kids we have, they're assets.
00:08:27.800 They're going to work on the farm.
00:08:28.680 They're going to work on the family.
00:08:29.680 We're going to pass the business down over to them.
00:08:32.220 Today, a lot of people don't look at children as asset.
00:08:35.380 They look at children as expenses.
00:08:37.240 Babe, do we really want to spend $450,000 from the day they're born until 18 years old?
00:08:43.360 That is an expense.
00:08:44.600 No, we're not going to have kids.
00:08:45.820 What about us?
00:08:47.240 What about us, babe?
00:08:48.440 Forget about having kids.
00:08:49.700 Let's just live for us, babe, right?
00:08:52.460 Eight, LGBTQ, right?
00:08:54.300 When you look at the numbers, the indoctrination.
00:08:55.700 By the way, in 2012, 3.5% was part of LGBTQ.
00:09:00.960 2020 was 7.9%.
00:09:02.520 Today, 15% to 20% of Gen Z associate themselves as LGBTQ.
00:09:07.700 That was not the case when I went to school.
00:09:09.240 When I was the age of Gen Z, when I was 14 years old, we may have had one gay and one lesbian in our class is what we had.
00:09:17.660 We didn't have 50.
00:09:18.600 That means out of my five friends, one of them was gay.
00:09:21.560 None of them were gay.
00:09:22.820 None of my friends.
00:09:23.460 We had a couple of them, but it wasn't like what it is today.
00:09:25.700 Today, it's cool.
00:09:27.020 Indoctrination.
00:09:28.060 Pride.
00:09:28.580 Pride month, June.
00:09:30.080 School is out.
00:09:30.980 Kids are spending time.
00:09:31.900 They're learning more about this stuff.
00:09:33.280 Nine, technological distraction.
00:09:35.100 You're on your phone.
00:09:36.340 Swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe.
00:09:38.240 Girl laying here instead of saying, babe, let's make a baby.
00:09:40.940 No, let me go through all these other stories, seeing what's going on.
00:09:43.940 And then, of course, number 10 is affordability.
00:09:45.600 So these are some of the issues, okay?
00:09:47.380 Now let me share with you some of the ideas that are somewhat radical.
00:09:51.140 If you like it, share it.
00:09:52.500 We need people to see this and debate hardcore to say, I agree.
00:09:56.520 I disagree.
00:09:57.680 No way.
00:09:58.580 That's what we want to do, right?
00:09:59.640 So let's go through it.
00:10:00.360 So how to fix.
00:10:01.880 Number one, change the incentive.
00:10:04.380 This is my idea.
00:10:05.580 Change the incentive.
00:10:07.360 So if you and your husband, you and your wife get married, you stay together.
00:10:13.540 You have a kid together.
00:10:15.480 You have a second kid together, not cohabitating.
00:10:18.380 It's got to be yours, and you guys have to be together.
00:10:21.280 You've been married together.
00:10:22.320 You have your first after you're married.
00:10:24.620 You have your second after you're married.
00:10:26.800 No problem.
00:10:27.700 That doesn't do anything big.
00:10:29.800 But by the time you get your third, $25,000 tax incentive every single year,
00:10:36.820 you get that $25,000 until the kid turns 18 years old.
00:10:40.320 Stop it.
00:10:41.020 Yes.
00:10:41.760 What does that mean?
00:10:42.400 You make $100,000 a year, you don't pay taxes on $25,000, you only pay taxes on $75,000
00:10:48.420 over 18 years.
00:10:49.320 What does that mean?
00:10:50.180 18 times $25,000 is what?
00:10:52.220 Do the math.
00:10:52.820 10, $258,000, $450,000 we give you from 0 to 18.
00:10:57.320 The cost of having a baby today from 0 to 18.
00:10:59.920 But you have a fourth kid that goes to $50,000.
00:11:03.260 Fifth kid, $75,000.
00:11:05.860 Sixth kid, $100,000.
00:11:07.980 There's only one disclaimer.
00:11:09.440 You have to have a job.
00:11:10.520 And zero, and I'm in zero reliance on government assistance.
00:11:14.680 This doesn't work with, let me just have babies and a husband and I stay home and we get this.
00:11:18.820 No, no, no, no, no.
00:11:19.520 You got to have a job.
00:11:20.700 You got to create commerce.
00:11:22.380 You got to make money.
00:11:23.380 You got to pay taxes.
00:11:24.860 And if you do, this is what it looks like.
00:11:26.740 Let me explain to you what this means.
00:11:27.820 If you're a husband and a wife, family of six, you make $100,000 a year, you keep 100%
00:11:34.000 of it.
00:11:34.280 That means you're making $200,000 if you live in the state of California, some of the states
00:11:38.400 with the way you pay taxes.
00:11:39.600 You make $250,000 a year.
00:11:41.400 You only pay taxes on $150,000.
00:11:43.020 You make $200,000 a year.
00:11:44.680 You only pay tax on $100,000.
00:11:46.320 How much do you save?
00:11:47.280 A lot of money.
00:11:48.820 That's the incentive on the first one.
00:11:50.480 Let's go to the second one.
00:11:51.940 Second one is a recognition system.
00:11:53.820 I want to get back to recognize.
00:11:55.220 I don't think we recognize people.
00:11:56.340 At our event, Valk Conference, I had people come up.
00:11:58.960 Who a year has more than five kids stand up?
00:12:00.680 They stood up.
00:12:01.380 Who has more than six kids?
00:12:02.660 Who has more than seven kids?
00:12:03.780 Who has more than eight kids?
00:12:04.800 Who has more than nine kids?
00:12:05.800 I had people come up.
00:12:06.720 I think one of the couples came up.
00:12:08.060 They had 10 kids together.
00:12:09.200 It was awesome.
00:12:09.900 And by the way, they had 10 kids and they weren't Mormons, which was so impressive.
00:12:13.040 I think they may have been traditional Catholics.
00:12:15.180 More power to Mormons than traditional Catholics that have a lot of kids.
00:12:18.620 I want to recognize, hey, this month, White House puts out an announcement.
00:12:23.560 This husband and wife have been married for 17 years.
00:12:26.340 They just had their fifth kid and a list of 982 people that just had their fifth kid that
00:12:31.580 month.
00:12:31.940 Then the next list, six.
00:12:33.720 Then the next list, seven.
00:12:35.280 Then the next list, eight.
00:12:36.540 Then the next list, nine.
00:12:37.540 And then we're celebrating people that are at the top and we actually see their faces and
00:12:41.600 we recognize them.
00:12:42.300 Bring them to the White House.
00:12:43.620 This couple has a job, business.
00:12:45.260 They just had her eight kids.
00:12:46.180 Let's celebrate them.
00:12:46.980 Let's bring them to the White House.
00:12:48.340 Okay, zero recognition if you're unentitled from programs.
00:12:53.140 This incentive doesn't go to people that are just saying, let's have another kid, another
00:12:56.640 kid, another kid.
00:12:57.360 No, no.
00:12:57.680 That Lyndon Johnson stuff that we did back in the days that screwed up the whole thing,
00:13:01.020 we're not for that.
00:13:02.060 Next, only if you're married, full-time job, no government assistant, period.
00:13:09.180 This is an incentive program to recognize others to do so.
00:13:13.220 Next, bring back father and mother of the year award.
00:13:16.280 We got to get back to it.
00:13:17.260 Recognize this husband and wife make $117,000 a year, yet they have six kids.
00:13:23.440 They live in Missouri in this small town and their kids have a 4.5 GPA, 4.3 GPA, 4.2 GPA.
00:13:29.760 Turn them into a hero in front of everybody.
00:13:31.620 Here's how they make it work.
00:13:32.860 Let us get to know their kids.
00:13:34.020 Let us get to know their family.
00:13:35.700 Let us enter into a kitchen and realize what it's like to raise a family like this.
00:13:39.660 Turn them into heroes.
00:13:40.860 Bring back prayer to school.
00:13:42.740 Open up the state of the union.
00:13:44.020 I would love to see the president go up with the state of the union that's coming up.
00:13:47.700 And before we get started, we bring a pastor.
00:13:49.720 Hey, can we get the nation to pray again?
00:13:52.240 Heavenly Father, before we get into the state of the union,
00:13:55.100 please strengthen the president to give a message to unify America at a difficult time right now.
00:13:59.960 We pray for the folks that are having a hard time in different countries around the world,
00:14:03.240 especially the folks in Nigeria, the folks in the Middle East.
00:14:05.900 What if we open it up with a prayer?
00:14:07.140 Oh my God, we start off with a prayer.
00:14:08.640 What is this?
00:14:09.160 I haven't seen this in a long time before.
00:14:10.760 Four, let's start off the days with prayers again.
00:14:14.940 And five, incentivize media outlets who have shows where the heroes of the shows are husband
00:14:23.180 and wife married with kids with a big family.
00:14:26.220 Give incentives.
00:14:27.100 This is something that we can get Hollywood involved.
00:14:29.080 And all of this, by the way, I want to make sure I recognize the president for some of the
00:14:31.880 work that he's doing.
00:14:32.600 So it's not like they're not doing anything.
00:14:34.580 They have Trump accounts.
00:14:35.820 They just launched the Trump tax credits and you got the access to IDF.
00:14:39.040 But let me give the goal.
00:14:40.400 You know what my goal is?
00:14:41.460 Here's the goal.
00:14:42.420 Highest we've ever hit is 4.317 million people born in a year.
00:14:47.020 I would love it in the next two or three years, 2026, 2027, 2028.
00:14:52.380 I think this is more of a 2027 goal.
00:14:54.340 What if in 2027, America, for the first time, we go on a run and the goal, 2027, for the
00:15:04.520 first time ever, America has 5 million kids.
00:15:08.960 Oh my God.
00:15:11.180 Can you imagine if we go on a run like this?
00:15:13.960 Can you imagine all of a sudden like, hey, I can't get a hold of John and Mary.
00:15:17.980 They're probably making babies.
00:15:19.440 Well, leave them alone.
00:15:20.420 That's good.
00:15:20.860 Do your thing.
00:15:21.360 Oh my God.
00:15:23.040 What's going on after baby?
00:15:24.280 What'd you guys just do?
00:15:25.340 We making babies.
00:15:26.940 You go in a church.
00:15:28.000 We're seeing all the kids again.
00:15:29.220 You're trying to listen to service.
00:15:30.540 Wah, wah.
00:15:31.320 Take the kid out.
00:15:32.860 You're going on airports and you're on a flight.
00:15:34.920 Wah, wah.
00:15:35.640 You know, you used to not have this many kids, but not this many kids.
00:15:38.920 We got to go back to it again, right?
00:15:41.060 With all the kids.
00:15:41.780 So for me, I believe we need to change the incentive program for us to start having kids
00:15:49.300 again.
00:15:49.600 We need to also make it affordable for the younger families to say, yes, I can afford
00:15:53.840 to have a third or a fourth or a fifth.
00:15:57.100 And very quickly, that 1.58 will go to 2.53.
00:16:02.880 Who knows?
00:16:03.460 Maybe we crack 4-1 if we really start competing collectively together.
00:16:06.660 That's going to take a long time to get to a number like that.
00:16:09.100 But even if we get to 2.5, that's a massive difference we're making in America.
00:16:12.580 So these are the radical ideas I have.
00:16:14.100 I think the main thing with someone like this, if you agree, share it with others.
00:16:17.080 Ask them, what do you think about this video?
00:16:18.460 Do you agree?
00:16:19.360 Do you not agree?
00:16:20.080 And if you're watching and saying, Pat, I got some ideas myself as well.
00:16:23.180 The first five people that meneked me, any ideas, you just meneked me and say, Pat, here
00:16:27.620 are my ideas from the video, how to fix the birth rate that we have in America.
00:16:32.560 I'm going to send you a signed copy of your next five moves and a signed Future Looks Pride
00:16:37.020 have to you as well.
00:16:38.060 But it's the first five.
00:16:39.440 Download meneked.
00:16:40.300 Send me a meneked.
00:16:41.000 I'll respond back to you as well.
00:16:42.660 And aside from that, if you've never seen a video, The Fatherless Crisis in America,
00:16:46.780 click here to watch the video.
00:16:48.660 Take care, everybody.
00:16:49.380 Bye-bye, bye-bye.