Zeihan and others tell us that many countries “old pensioners, retirees, on SS, using lots of resources, etc” are a fast growing demographic.
So fast that the “productive” 35-55 year olds can’t GDP enough to cover the costs.
TPTB say we US gotta cut our US spending, and SS Medicare Medicaid and pensions are “too high”.
There’s more than one way to skin a
ralph
Well, half of the US intelligence agencies think that a lab leak is likely. And in Germany, the BND thinks it was a lab leak.
According to BND, Corona originates from Chinese laboratory – government has kept files secret for five years
For five years, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has assumed that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory. The BND classifies the laboratory theory as “probable” and is “80 to 95%” certain.
DB2
One of the links I posted showed Friedman, years ago, barking about government spending, because it takes resources away from the “JCs”. Not the budget deficit. Not the trade deficit. But “spending” was the great evil. “Rant #37” has been baked into the ideology for a long time.
Steve
Unlike when Purdue Phara killed despair working class by OxyContin from ~2007 to 2017.
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline. For the white working class, today’s America has become a land of broken families and few prospects. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair.
I would fully expect the big dogs at Purdue only looking at their bottom line, and how much they were putting in their pockets. Not an intentional conspiracy to kill Proles. But, a point of view in which the Proles simply did not matter, beyond a ledger entry under “source of funds”.
Steve
