Thursday, April 21, 2005
A Crossroads in Opinion
I read an interesting article on MSN yesterday about birthrates and trends. It seems people are having fewer kids and waiting later in life to have them. I believe the average agee for women to have their first child is up to 25 from 21 in the 60's or 70's. Men are wiating until around 30, up from their mid 20's. Teen pregnancy has plummetted. Yay America! We are geting our lives in order and gaining some sense of responsibilty with Gen-X getting some maturity about them. The problem is this. We have lots of old people and they are getting odler and older and they have kids (our parents), then there is us, then there is a gap because we are waiting to have kids. The kicker is the tax base. At some point many of us will have parents and some grandparents both alive and retired, drawing from the govenment, meanwhile, we are waiting to have childern longer. Can you say strain on the National Budget? Does anyone else seethis as an issue in a ocuple years. Our kids won't be old enough to work at McDonalds so the govenment can pull taxes from them, and our folks will be pulling SS. I guess all I have to say is Breed young people breed. I never thought I would say this as I generally suggest that a lot of random people I run across need not do this for the betterment of society, but now I may think it a necessity. If nothing more than we will need Wal-Mart employees and garbage men later on too. Everyone can't come from a background that supports higher education be an engineer, accountant, teacher, doctor and lawyer. The numbers jsut don't let it happen that way.
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Hence SS reform. Yay Bush!!!
Actually, Clinton tried in his second term, and Reagan did it in his second term. Obviously, Bush senior didn't because he didn't have a second term. So, the jest is this, SS reform is political suicide, but it's the right thing to do. That's why the Pres. does it in his second term.
I think the end result will be that people simply work longer.
But I think that the young people are going through the motions. Estimates say that there are 1.5 million abortions performed in this country each year. There are roughly 3 million babies born.
There's a new book, called "Freakonomics" where they apparently argue that the legalization of abortion is, in part, responsible for lower crime rates 17 to 18 years later.
As for SS, I think the reform is a good step. In essence it is designed as a pyramid scheme. So it's no wonder that it will falter when the base gets too small. At worst, reform will probably provide a better return for those involved. At best it will create a movement to get rid of it.
I think the end result will be that people simply work longer.
But I think that the young people are going through the motions. Estimates say that there are 1.5 million abortions performed in this country each year. There are roughly 3 million babies born.
There's a new book, called "Freakonomics" where they apparently argue that the legalization of abortion is, in part, responsible for lower crime rates 17 to 18 years later.
As for SS, I think the reform is a good step. In essence it is designed as a pyramid scheme. So it's no wonder that it will falter when the base gets too small. At worst, reform will probably provide a better return for those involved. At best it will create a movement to get rid of it.
All I have tro say is that Wha is really stretching to find an excuse to get laid. Are you carrying this around in your back pocket like a pick up line now? Oh yeah, yeah for SS reform!!
I'll happily stay behind the wheel of my newly recommissioned boat of virginity and wait until 30 something. Yes, I miss sex, but simply to create a being for the tax base to help pay for my parents, I'll pass. I would rather save the money I'm not spending on doctors, formula and diapers than have the 25% junior gets deducted for flipping burgers and bagging worthless chinese stuff.
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