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Originally Posted by SebC
I don't know what can be done... as the burden increases, so does the political power of the burden. Legalize assisted suicide? Voting proportional to expected remaining life expectancy? Ban bailouts for defined benefit pensions (or eliminate defined benefit altogether)?
I suspect any party that even starts talking about that would lose an awful lot of support, and awful fast.
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I know, and its a bad issue. The reality is though that guys our age (I don't know how old you are....) are about to become the minority though. I don't know how everyone else in my age bracket feels, but the idea that we should all continue working and pay higher taxes to support an aging population isn't exactly thrilling!
I don't have the answers, but rather than just take petty shots at each other or spending time investigating peoples facebook friends maybe they could try debating something that actually matters? The government is fond of predicting how great the economy is, and explaining how the economy is in such amazing shape (I think that most of these predictions aren't worth the paper their printed on), but great....problem solved. Now put that enormous amount of money spent on attack ads and leaflets to work for something useful and figure out a way out of the mess you've helped create!