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HAVE CHILDREN. It's as simple as that. Social Security is based on the idea that there will be more 20-70 year olds working than retirees. So if you're worried about not having your full benefits in your old age- having children during the next 15 years will assure that there will be workers working to pay FICA taxes to support you in 2040.

That is, of course, assuming that the current bigotry that this administration and the current business world has shown against American workers does not last. But that can be taken care of with draconian anti-trade agreements.
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  • As long as life expectancy continues to rise, you'd have to make each and every generation larger than the one before it....

    Of course, in Europe, they're having the reverse problem. I think it's clear that for any modern country doing a lot to encourage elevated birth rates is a good idea. But that's just to keep generations the same size - trying to have the next generation be BIGGER than the current one is not sustainable.

    But, the crisis in 2042 is completely manufactured. The portion of the population
    • As long as life expectancy continues to rise, you'd have to make each and every generation larger than the one before it....

      Yeah, so? Have 4 kids, and the next generation will be larger. Do that enough times, and the famine will take care of your old people for you, just as we've done with every culture mankind has ever created.

      Of course, in Europe, they're having the reverse problem. I think it's clear that for any modern country doing a lot to encourage elevated birth rates is a good idea. But that
      • So, you're arguing for brutal war as a population control measure?

        I would think that we could do BETTER than the uneducated, unenlightend attempts that civilization that came before us.

        Your radical arguments against capitalism and birth control now make sense. I think you just convinced me to vote in FAVOR of brutal last-day abortions.

        I wish you wouldn't do that!
        • So, you're arguing for brutal war as a population control measure?

          It worked in the past- but the point is more famine than war. War, you see, pulls us back into being TAKER culture. Famine is LEAVER culture. (obRef. Daniel Quinn).

          I would think that we could do BETTER than the uneducated, unenlightend attempts that civilization that came before us.

          I'm arguing for leaving life and death in the hands of GOD rather than in the hands of the "educated and enlightened". Educated and enlightened go for t
          • It worked in the past- but the point is more famine than war. War, you see, pulls us back into being TAKER culture. Famine is LEAVER culture. (obRef. Daniel Quinn).

            The USA is a heavily-armed country that just happens to be one of the most fertile and well-farmed. Given your "culture of life" idiocy, we would go to war, because we would be attacked.

            Plus, NO ONE quietly starves to death. It simply does not happen. Hungry people go and find food, and will start all kinds of chaos and discord, because if
            • The USA is a heavily-armed country that just happens to be one of the most fertile and well-farmed. Given your "culture of life" idiocy, we would go to war, because we would be attacked.

              The culture of life- if it was enacted in the United States as law- would require the USA to disarm and disband it's standing army in favor of a truly defensive force of armed citizenry- like Switzerland has.

              Plus, NO ONE quietly starves to death. It simply does not happen. Hungry people go and find food, and will start a
              • Really? I see God striking us down for it constantly- with the pain of broken relationships and divorce.

                My parents probably should have utilized stricter birth control, and possibly even aborted their first unexpected child.

                They did not, and the result was twenty years of a broken home that could have been avoided if they weren't Catholic.

                Now they're divorced, my mother doesn't go to church, and not a single one of my brothers or cousins has a devout relationship with God.

                Don't try and tell me that God
                • My parents probably should have utilized stricter birth control, and possibly even aborted their first unexpected child.

                  Possibly- but then who would take care of them in their old age?

                  They did not, and the result was twenty years of a broken home that could have been avoided if they weren't Catholic.

                  If they were truly Catholic and respected the Sacrament more than their own happiness, the broken home would never have happened. Either that- or the marriage had a fundamental flaw (like one of the spous
  • Suddenly all the bush policies make sense....
    Don't teach kids about safe sex....
    Population increases...
    No more inverse pyramid population structure...
    No more Social Security problem!
    • .... the privately acknowledged by insiders (I know/have known a few higher level pols and political party muckety mucks, they all admitted this to me) but not admitted-to in public little factoid of modern US politics, the uncontrolled and allowed illegal immigration "stealth" immigration policy. They cannot overtly just say "We need 50 million more people extra in the next generation" so that is the plan. It is not only based on making the millionaires into billionaires (primary reason), but in addressin
  • In advanced countries, the average number of children of married couple has been less than 2. While the population has been upward slightly, which means we are facing an ageing society.

    Some argue that the inequilibrim between the young workers who pay premium and the old retired who receive might cause trouble, but that's a magic of figure in statistics.

    The young never pays premium for other than themselves.

    You see only those who had paid premium for more than 25 years are eligible to be a recipient of

    • In the United States however, back in the 1930s when the program was started, there wasn't any money to actually start the program. So instead of doing it the sensible way you suggest, they put into place a pyramid scheme. Based on the death rates of the time, the grand majority died before age 60- and very few were able to work past that (originally). So they used the glut of workers under age 60 to reward those who passed the magic date. Currently, the numbers work out at 67- and if we keep pushing th
  • 2042 Hmm, Ill do the math. Most likely Ill be dead. :)

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