XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: talk.politics.misc   
   From: abelard@abelard.org   
      
   On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 12:41:46 -0000 (UTC), Incubus    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2024-03-04, 63h.1504 <63h.1503@f3t3w.net> wrote:   
   >> On 3/3/24 9:44 AM, abelard wrote:   
   >>> On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 08:17:29 -0000 (UTC), useapen   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> The last Baby Boomer turns 60 this year. Many born between 1946 and 1964   
   >>>> have already retired, and millions more will follow in the coming years,   
   >>>> with the number of people reaching state pension age forecast to hit a   
   >>>> record 800,000 in 2028 for the first time. By then the earliest anyone   
   >>>> will be able to claim their state pension will be 67, up from 66 today.   
   >>>   
   >>> we can easily meet any particular pension   
   >>>   
   >>> a lot is about choice   
   >>> we could all choose to walk or cycle   
   >>>   
   >>> read this from the '30s   
   >>> "Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren." keynes   
   >>> (many coppies on the net)   
   >>   
   >>    The UK is suffering from the same demographic crisis as   
   >>    much of the 1st world - drastic reduction in birthrates   
   >>    create a fatal gap ... no youth, no money, to support the   
   >>    older gens. The success of the 1st world after WW2 led   
   >>    people to believe they didn't need nine kids to protect   
   >>    them in their old age.   
   >>   
   >>    And it was true ... for awhile.   
   >>   
   >>    The very worst off is S.Korea - birthrate of 0.71 at last   
   >>    tally. Bare "replacement" is 2.1 per.   
   >>   
   >>    Countries are importing 3rd-world people in droves - no   
   >>    matter how they frame it for political reasons - to try   
   >>    and cope. It may serve for one more gen, but much beyond   
   >>    that the original "nations/cultures" are DEAD, completely   
   >>    replaced by "the help".   
   >   
   >In addition to such racial and cultural vandalism, it doesn't seem to   
   >occur to them that the people they import to boost the population will   
   >also one day grow old and receive state benefits and need to be paid   
   >for.   
   >   
   >It's a state-sponsored pyramid scheme, as is fiat currency.   
      
   e f russell did a short story on the drudges (taxi drivers,   
      launderers etc)  replacing an advanced civilisation   
      
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