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To: KyrosL who wrote (136030)	4/7/2010 12:17:28 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) of 541992

Relax, We’ll Be Fine By DAVID BROOKS Published: April 5, 2010 According to recent polls, 60 percent of Americans think the country is heading in the wrong direction. The same percentage believe that the U.S. is in long-term decline. The political system is dysfunctional. A fiscal crisis looks unavoidable. There are plenty of reasons to be gloomy. Somebody needs to send Brooks the memo, the US is DOOMED! They are going to have to take away his columnist credentials for writing otherwise. Over the next 40 years, demographers estimate that the U.S. population will surge by an additional 100 million people, to 400 million over all. The population will be enterprising and relatively young. In 2050, only a quarter will be over 60, compared with 31 percent in China and 41 percent in Japan. I wish more people paid attention to the demographic timebombs around the world. Japan has a debt to GDP ratio astronomically higher than the US AND a shrinking population. They are an economic disaster waiting to happen. Slacker

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