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To: Road Walker who wrote (212051)	11/19/2004 10:48:34 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573994

The echo boomers, or even the original boomers are points that stand out in the overall trend but they don't make the trend disapear. They are just major fluctuations around the trend. If fertility doesn't greatly increase (and its unlikely to) and the average life span keeps increasing (and it probably will) and the retirement age doesn't move up more than just the couple of years to 67, than the trend will resume after the "echo boomers". If we are going to get rid of or totally revamps social security in another 30 to 50 years than maybe we really only have to worry about the boomers. If however you really want to plan for the long run health of the program you can't just focus on individual generations. Tim