<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 12:19 AM, Adrian Tymes </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>I can see the possibility of a law forbidding all future<br>
pensions-for-life, and adjusting any current ones to some (ultimately<br>
arbitrary) cap, after which there will be a bunch of people who had<br>
planned on further pension income who suddenly have no further income<br>
source.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>Anything could happen given Washington's current irrationality and contempt even for the very idea of objective facts. But if the above does occur its cause will have nothing to do with advances in science or technology, it will happen because some chant screaming cult like politician has managed to convince 23% of the American voters that everything he says is true and the above would be good for them (although it calls itself a republic it is possible for you to win a election and become president of the USA even if your opponent gets 77% of the popular vote and you only get 23%). <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div>
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