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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (44261)	7/25/2010 12:34:11 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 71588

Its not just an issue of demographic fluctuations. There is also a long term trend of people living longer, and the retirement age increase has not kept up with that (and that's just counting from after they started raising the retirement age for future retirees, before that you had people living longer and longer for generations with no increase in the retirement age). Short term fluctuation aren't to big of deal. Mid term issues like the baby boomers retirement are a bit to big, to be so casually dismissed as "demographic fluctuations" that will always happen. Its a pretty big deal, and also not a common one (there have been no demographic bulges of that size since, nor is it likely that we will have one any time soon). Longer term trends like increasing longevity simply aren't fluctuations at all. All of which has nothing to do with my post that you responded to. It wasn't about fluctuations. It was about the program being too expensive, and how extra income for the government to pay for it does not mean you have resolved its problems.

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