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To: LindyBill who wrote (17466)	11/23/2003 7:13:51 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793725

I understand the problem of declining population for our pension systems, which are set up for an ever increasing number of young people to support an ever stable number of old people--except that the young people are declining and the old people are growing by leaps and bounds, in part because of the Medicare system. And I understand the political difficulty of fixing the problems. My point is that this stupid situation we legislated ourselves into is a squirrelly reason for breeding like rabbits. And self defeating long term. It doesn't get easier to fix later. We cannot tax ourselves out of the problem. How will the young people ever be able to afford kids if we have such onerous payroll taxes? Since we can't tax ourselves out of it, we're going to breed ourselves out of the problem? What ever happened to IRAs? Is it still too soon for those to bail us out? I don't know when they're supposed to kick in. Or if that idea has failed. And if it has failed, why are people still pressing for the medical equivalent? Is anyone on top of this? And is this the only reason for increasing population. Another thing we don't deal with. Much easier to bomb Iraq. Much easier, too, than to admit a mistake. Politicians make lousy systems analysts.