Originally Posted by
JamesBond007
The video sucked it as it does not even mention inflation but skirts around the topic.
1.) Inflation is a tax on the poor .
2.) For countries with large baby boomer populations, particularly, the US : Most of us will die poor. There is no way that systems devised to provide for mid-20th-century retirees will be able to cope in the mid-21st, with imploding demographics and a centenarian on every block. “Defined-contribution” pension plans will have to be baled out by the federal government, if private enterprise is to survive. The dollars we get from them will therefore be massively devalued. Since there is no one to bale out Social Security, benefits will soon be restricted to citizens more than 80 years old. Similarly for Medicare.
3.) As far as millenials being more socialist and supporting things like Obamacare : Quality health care for all is not possible. Quality health care is what rich people get. The rest of us must wait on line to be misdiagnosed by ill-trained, paperwork-swamped, litigation-shy doctors, assisted by nurses imported from the less hygienic parts of the Third World, and unionized hospital staff with no-way-you-can-get-me-fired attitudes. This could only change if the U.S.A. devoted its entire Gross National Product to health care; and even then, it probably wouldn’t stay changed for long.
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