[lucysmom]

...one wage-slave supporting four retirees on S/S...

Hyperbolic, static analysis, as the FairTaxers would say.

[pigdog]

"Hyperbolic, static analysis, as the FairTaxers would say."

Perhaps you missed the parenthetical phrase in my post which said:

"... (and, yes, that's purposely overstated to illustrate the quickly arriving seriousness of the problem) ..."

... which presumably is what you're trying to say in a different way.