<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 11:47 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
...<a href="mailto:bounces@lists.extropy.org">bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] On Behalf Of BillK<br>
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>...I doubt if this is correct for the US and other countries that operate<br>
<span class="">on deficit financing.<br>
They already spend money they haven't got every month and just add it on to<br>
the national debt.<br>
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</span>>...Some people wonder how long this system can continue...BillK<br>
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BillK, by current extrapolations, our national retirement system will become<br>
insolvent in 2035. People who are not concerned by this fail to realize the<br>
depth of the crisis faced by those who are counting on it for survival.<br>
Perhaps they imagine we can just raise taxes to cover the cost. They fail<br>
to deal with the possibility that the generation of voters in 2035 will be<br>
unwilling to pay that, and will elect tax cutters instead.<br>
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The reasoning would be sound: the older generation spent its own money and<br>
borrowed against the younger generation, so why should they vote to keep<br>
doubling down?<br>
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Many of those reading this may live to experience what happens when a nation<br>
lives on borrowed money for a long time. Eventually the bills come due. I<br>
fear the outcome will range somewhere between extremely unpleasant to<br>
horrifying.<br>
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spike<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Japan is experiencing a dearth of babies and a big excess of the elderly. They are trying to support increased birth rates. Where will they live? Underground? We really don't see much about population control lately, and to me that's a big mistake. We will eventually have to do it. Why wait? bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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