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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Damn those richies.

A medical study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine says that studies show adults in their 50s who are just slightly overweight have between a 20 and 40 percent chance of dying within the decade. Well, I guess Congress won’t have to “fix” Social Security after all. All of those Baby Boomers who were expected to live till 95 and cripple the U.S.’s social system for the elderly are going to die early, I guess, foregoing the problem they may have created for their younger and fewer working counterparts.

What’s even cooler is that the Democrats will almost certainly take over the Congress in the Fall and hold onto that power for some time, giving them the ability to take credit for overcoming this economic challenge (even when Nature solved the problem for them.)

All of these old people, with all of the money they saved and invested for retirement...now that money will be passed onto their survivors, tax free, thanks to the overturning of the “Death Tax”. That means we’re going to have a lot of Trust Fund Kids on our hands, even more than in the 90s. God, I hate those people.

For more on that see the Documentary by Jamie Johnson (heir to Johnson and Johnson wealth) called “Born Rich”. Very interesting.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where'd you go? We haven't heard about the rest of your vacay with the parents yet...-Monica

2:46 PM  

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