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To: Restorer
The most obvious will pop up 30 years from now, when a large number of retirees will be (not) supported by a much smaller and shrinking contingent of workers.

Why should the workers of 30 years in the future support the generation of today? Aren't people saving for the future? Are they all buying into the lie that social security is some sort of savings program? Are you saying that the socialistic concept of "from each according to his ability ; to each according to his need" be applied to those who currently squander their wealth and will hence be "needy" in the future? DO you think that just because someone pays welfare taxes now (FICA) that they are entitled to receive welfare in the future? I hope that the productive workers of the future line Kongress up against the wall and institute Romanian term limits if they shift any more wealth away from the ones who earn it to those who whine for it.

I grew up when the population of the country was in the 170 million range. Technologically we're much more advanced today - I like having computers, advanced medicine etc., but the vast loss of freedom as government is 1000 times more intrusive today than then and and the vast loss of wealth as bureaucrats plunder far more of the wealth of the nation to pay for their worthless social engineering schemes make the quality of life not as good in many aspects as it was then. This cancerous government growth is fueled in part by the rising population which has lost a sense of personal responsibility and in turn expects their wants to be meet by the labor of others. Look at where socialism is at it's worst. It's in the most densely populated states and areas.

63 posted on 03/31/2004 3:30:48 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: from occupied ga
I am talking about the nations of Europe. They do indeed buy into all the arguments your are opposed to. Everything you hate they believe are good things. Which means the Europeans of todays are in for an enormous shock when their much smaller and increasingly Muslim successor generation balks at paying the enormous amounts necessary to support them in the style to which they've become accustomed.

Which just goes to show, I guess, that what goes around comes around.
78 posted on 03/31/2004 7:18:15 AM PST by Restorer
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