There is no evidence beyond self interested mutual fund company 'studies' and fear mongering on the far right that our CPP is not going to work. Thanks to some Chretien era changes (gasp!) it is in incrediably good shape.
The Americans have been STEALING money from their system for years, leaving it underfunded just to pay for election day promises of yester-year.
Ironically, the capitalist country treated it as a secret tax, not the socialist one.
The way the free market deals with old age guys? DEATH. Rotting bodies in the streets. Ghettos. Beggers. Or at least the death squads hired by the rich to clean up the problem once it annoys them enough to make the investment worth while. (In other words the industrializing world 300-50 years ago.)
You are living in a bubble if you think life is so easy that everyone should save or pay the consequences.
Has it ever occured to you why communism took hold in Europe and Asia? Could it have been massive uprising by the underclasses fed up with their lot in life?
Free market = Massive disparity = eventual revolution of the underclasses
Communism = Massive disparity = eventual revolution of the underclasses
Mixed system of limited socialist mechanism working within an otherwise free market economy = Massive but barible disparity = relative peace, with open and stable markets for the industrious to exploit yet the opportunity to just live a life for the less capable or 'driven'. for profits.
I know which i chose.
Claeren.
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