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To: kormac who wrote (7265)	10/22/1998 3:10:00 PM
From: see clearly now	Respond to of 9980

Interesting?.. "...Thus, we ought to devise a system where old people can work and still get part of the social security. If this is properly designed, then the date when people retire would be linked not only to their age, but earning potential and slide appropriately." In 1991,I presented a long term sustainable strategy for the City of Sapporo Japan towards becoming the leading city in the northern world (for those who do not know, Sapporo gets 5 meters of snow every winter) in the 21st Century. One of the ingredients in that comprehensive strategy was to involve their elders as a positive and active force in specified roles......little did I know at the time that Japan was in such dire straits..although the long reigning and now late Mayor who hired me told me it would be a very long time for Japan to right its economic situation (I was thinking 2-3 years and now realize he was likely thinking a generation) He had a long view!...He was a wonderful person who was given the highest award for leadership that exists in Japan..The Order of the SUN I believe it was called.... just before he passed on... The discussion does raise the larger underlying issues beyond all the talk of the forces of greed and a free form financial system needing some structure such as demographics and other aspects to our human condition that are really driving things..this will become even more evident as our Population Explosion now driven by longer life expectancy gradually turns into an implosion. Arni