To: Triggerhippie
If all smokers were to stop today and live long healthy lives, Social Security and corporate pension plans would collapse many years earlier because their payment schedules are based on a certain percentage of the population dying early.
39 posted on
07/09/2006 11:08:29 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Loose lips sink ships - and the New York Times really doesn't have a problem with sinking ships.)
To: KarlInOhio
If all smokers were to stop today and live long healthy lives, Social Security and corporate pension plans would collapse many years earlier because their payment schedules are based on a certain percentage of the population dying early. That is another good point. Entirely in keeping with the 'Modest Proposal' of the poison-laced brand of smokes.
47 posted on
07/09/2006 11:20:31 AM PDT by
Triggerhippie
(Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
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