Santelli: "Stop Spending!"

[Honu]

I know Im a sick biotch but if more people died less would be spent on them, cause they are dead. I think this is the reason S.S. is in the sh itter, back in they day the never thought people would live as long as they do now. In the 30's it was normal to die when you were in your 50's. The rich were the one's who lived the longest because they had food and access to doctors the rest were as Darwin would say survival of the fittest.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Honu

I know Im a sick biotch but if more people died less would be spent on them, cause they are dead. I think this is the reason S.S. is in the sh itter, back in the day the never thought people would live as long as they do now. In the 30's it was normal to die when you were in your 50's. The rich were the one's who lived the longest because they had food and access to doctors the rest were as Darwin would say survival of the fittest.

There are certainly those in the scientific community that have pointed out that this generation in the US will not live as long as their parents, and that perhaps man's "domination" of the earth - and the results (global warming, food shortages, the Gulf, all of it) is coming home to roost very acutely, in the sense that in the next decades there will be historic die offs of humans until we get back to a lower physical population number that the earth, under our abuse, can sustain.

[Honu]

Originally Posted by Riot

There are certainly those in the scientific community that have pointed out that this generation in the US will not live as long as their parents, and that perhaps man's "domination" of the earth - and the results (global warming, food shortages, the Gulf, all of it) is coming home to roost very acutely, in the sense that in the next decades there will be historic die offs of humans until we get back to a lower physical population number that the earth, under our abuse, can sustain.

Then thats good because there will be money to actually pay out to the loan survivors.