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To: Lane3 who wrote (128888)	1/21/2010 11:49:35 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542004

It can be "sub" if I don't think yours would work. I've seen the UK and I like their system and it works. Your system? Deregulation? Never seen that work- sorry. Sub optimal. No biggy though- neither one of us is capable of getting anything done. The coporations will get what they want no matter who is in power. All hail the Corporate States of America.

To: Lane3 who wrote (128888)	1/29/2010 11:45:36 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 542004

Dumping a bunch of old people in to the workforce in the middle of a recession, might easily create extra unemployment, but with a slower change (and with most of it occurring in better times for the simple reason that its easier to get hired then) there shouldn't be any problem. Its not like there is some set number of jobs. Additional workers create additional wealth which represents additional demand. The additional demand might not appear immediately, so you couldn't absorb a big chunk of the retired people all at once, but people don't get hired that way anyhow. There is no special need to "figure out how to create more jobs", before people start delaying retirement. If there was (and really there isn't), the best way would be to remove government barriers and imposed costs on hiring people. Don't raise the minimum wage for a long time so your reducing it in real terms. Reduce payroll taxes (although the fiscal situation isn't so good for a big reduction here, we need to contain government spending first), reduce regulations that get in the way... Surely there are better ways to train doctors what what we currently do. And fixing that could help. And doctor-level skills aren't needed for everything they now do. And some procedure-based practices earn too much. Those are problems of over-regulation. So how do we fix that? I would suggest looking at de-regulation first before we apply even more command and control and lock ourselves in further. I agree.