Posted on 10/01/2007 1:51:56 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Done.
(Silly you..there is no big problem here. In a few years,Congress will mimic the GM solution, set up a VEBA,to be run by AARP..(I mean, can they do any worse than the UAW?) and fund it with a few trillion in government bonds..see..problem solved, (er, postponed) for a few decades more.
Actually, that is part of the plan. With Fed Health Care, they can just deny your care and you die.
Social Security saved.
I can hardly wait.
They don’t even have to “make” retirement illegal, sometimes it takes care of itself. There are a LOT of people in their 70s and 80s who are working today and not by choice, since their gold-plated pension fund went belly up along with the company back in the 80s. I suppose that was a portent of things to come on a smaller scale.
The difference now is a HUGH demographic of “baby boomers” who will probably overwhelm the system just as they did for everything else.
Fortunately, the baby boomers won't live forever. In another twenty to thirty years, they'll be dying off in record numbers.
Look for tax increases and benefit reductions. Politicians know that to let SS sink, means "out of power". Our current remedy? Deny everything and shift the blame. Oh yeah, how is Medicare Part D working out for everyone? Thanks Big Government Republicans, thanks a lot.
Seriously, I think you're onto something. Euthanasia (in fact, if not in name) will indeed take care of the Social Security shortfall. It's just the dirty little secret they'll never let you in on.
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