I've got this deficit proposal all figured out! ;-) or :-(

[mediaman007]

Without a doubt, inflation will come in the near future. The deficit commission is aware of this. So they are factoring in inflation.

1) Most young workers won't get established until after 26 years old. (After they are released from their parent's insurance.) Their working careers will be somewhere near 40 - 45 years.

2) Our health care will eventually extend the lives of Americans to at least 100 years.

3) If people retire at 70, they will have about 30 years to experience retirement, with a Social Security stipend. Thirty years of retirement sounds pretty good.

So obviously, the adjustments will be painless to the citizens of 2050. Its all relevant to the circumstances.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Sure, only that 100-year lifespan will be reserved

to the very, very rich. Anything else would result in a massive population explosion.

In fact, the main objective is to reduce the lifespan of the proles. This will be accomplished by giving them unusable health care policies, exposing them to strange new chemicals, GMO's, etc., sending them off to wars, and generally defunding them (us) by moving our jobs elsewhere. We have become liabilities.

[mediaman007]

4. I was just thinking about how all of this makes me think that I am in "The Twilight Zone!"

[Gold Metal Flake]

2. "If people retire at 70, they will have about 30 years to experience retirement"

Gee, thank you God.

Hmm, I guess all of those dead people on the obit pages under the age of 100 were just not worshiping the correct DU God?

[mediaman007]

5. Speaking of the obituaries...

I wanted to have each of my friends contribute $20 to a money pool. Last person living collects! (It makes for great conversation.)

[Gold Metal Flake]

7. That post is a target-rich environment.

[fasttense]

3. If the Cat Food Commission gets its way, the baby being born today

will have to work until they are 70, err 69, to retire. That would be my grandchild.

I seriously doubt the human life span will increase that much. In fact, American life spans are actually getting shorter, mostly due to the ever increasing infant mortality rate.

[mediaman007]

6. A baby born today won't know that it missed America's great years.

At the age of 60, the child will fondly remember the 2020's as the "Good, Old Days."