Who's gonna pay for Baby Boomer SS benefits?

[Carnut]

Hopefully all those illegal aliens will get SS tax paying jobs.

[LouiseVargas]

You asked two questions:

1) Who's gonna pay for Baby Boomer SS benefits?
I don't know. I escaped being a baby boomer by one year. I'm collecting early SS retirement benefits since August 2006.

2) Hopefully all those illegal aliens will get SS tax paying jobs. That was mere sarcasm, no need to discuss.

[Anna]

Too bad we bought into the bogus population timebomb nonsense and ceased to reproduce.   According to what we were told, we should have all starved in a pile long ago, no need for SS.  

Instead, our farming techniques improved to the point where three percent could feed the rest of us.  Now the globalists want to move all argiculture to other countries and we are seeing the results of that little fiasco.

Europe has an even lower birth rate among what is traditionally thought of as Euripeans so they are vanishing faster than the majority in this country.  The once fertile Italians are not even replacing themselves.  Again, this is the projection if the current trends continue until 2015.

We are not alone with out woes from failure to reproduce.  What did we think happened to people who did that?   This is sort of a joke and sort of true:

[Carnut]

I still say there is a global overpopulation problem.

The problem is where the overpopulation is.

[Anna]

Carnut,

Where is the overpopulation?  Members of the EU have 113 people per square kilometer, over twice what Mexico has at 55 per sq kilometer.

http://tinyurl.com/ys7let

And yes, I know Weikepedia is not a reliable source, this is taken from one that is for a change and also matches the CIA World Fact Book.

I'd say the problem is not the population (although that could some day become a real problem, it isn't yet nor in the immediate future) but rather a lack of capitalism to afford those seeking a chance to do so the opportunity to succeed and defeat poverty, etc.

I think the problem is poverty and not population.  How else do you explain Mexico being more poor than the EU?  If it were population, it should be twice as rich as the EU instead for so much more poor.

But as the EU abandons capitalism in favor of their more socialists programs, they are fast losing their standing as far as standard of living and income per capita goes.  Their higher taxes and governmental controls will likely be their own downfall with everything eventually belonging to the state, the ultimate in socialism.

Population does not cause poverty but forms of government do.

Just my opinion.

[Carnut]

Any place with more than 1 person per square kilometer is overpopulated.

[Anna]

Any place with more than 1 person per square kilometer is overpopulated.

But most of those places have a very low standard of living and GDP per capita which I think is a major gauge for a country's success.  And lots of itty bitty countries have a high GDP per capita but there is just about only one BIG country in population that has one.  

That's the difference in our economy and that of others and why it affords us the advantages that it does.

Here is a list of countries by GDP and note the only BIG country:

http://tinyurl.com/7vyzv


I am referring to population size, not land mass as "big."


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