Posted on 04/06/2002 3:28:35 PM PST by GeneD
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
MADRID, Spain (AP) The predictions are almost cataclysmic: In 50 years, if trends continue, the number of people older than 60 will triple. Those 2 billion seniors would outnumber the world's youths.
By 2150, one-third of the world's population would be older than 60.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
''In Africa, because of the AIDS epidemic, it is often the grandparents who are taking care of children,'' said Eduardo Rodriguez, president of the Spanish Confederation of Elderly Organizations and co-chairman of the non-governmental meeting.
So - fewer people means more people?
I'm sure euthanasia will be the UN's answer to the elderly, sick and disabled.
Their solution will be one that involves coercion and death , you may be sure.Older people had better be prepared to resist ---see the movie SOYLENT GREEN !
1) Allow people over 65 to take a tax credit for the cigarette taxes they pay.
2)Distribute crack and heroin seized in federal drug raids free to nursing home residents.
3)All-You-Can-Eat Big Mac Early Bird Specials at McDonalds.
4)More X-treme sports at the Senior Olympics.
5)Spread rumors among the Bloods that the Crips have traded in their canes for walkers.
6)Mosh pits at Knights of Columbus dances.
7)AARP public service announcements that drinking and driving DO mix.
8)Introduce new Malt Liquor/Metamucil blend in 40 oz bottles.
Naw. We can't have those old folks living the life of Reilly while us bureaucrats, who, unaccustomed as were are to productive labor and self-responsibility are forced to dumpster-dive to survive.
Hey, if we eliminated all unnecessary bureaucrats -- along with their phoney baloney agencies, that would leave plenty of room for the "elderly population bomb. "
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