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From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:16626] Re: Re: Re: Atlas shrugged
> At 10:08 AM 09/03/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >thanks
> >to the &q
When analysts speak of a fiscal catastrophe some
50 years hence, what they are actually referring
to, strictly in terms of scale, is a public sector
analagous to the Euro social-democracies -- spending
in the neighborhood of 40 percent.
The bulk of this, again in terms of debatable
scenarios, is
At 10:08 AM 09/03/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>thanks
>to the "anti-grade inflation" movmement of the seventies and eighties,
>students have to take more and harder classes to graduate.
damn straight!
and I think that business majors _should_ be forced to work hard.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & ht
I can't say overall, but there's pretty good figures
for workers in the "bracero" program of 1942-1964.
There were some 4 million Mexican workers brought in,
and ten percent of their pay was withheld from
1942-1950, which was supposed to go to worker "savings
accounts." They never got the money--
Michael Perelman wrote:
>Also, many immigrants pay into social security without being able to
>collect. Has anybody ever tried to quantify that effect?
The SS Trustees reports use immigrants as one of the demographic
variables, with higher levels of immigration meaning more solvency
for the s
Also, many immigrants pay into social security without being able to
collect. Has anybody ever tried to quantify that effect?
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:20:13PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Gar Lipow wrote:
>
> >Also there is one other point. In the U.S, anyway the increase in the
> >ratio of s
Gar Lipow wrote:
>Also there is one other point. In the U.S, anyway the increase in the
>ratio of seniors to others is projected to occur alongside a drop in the
>ratio of children to population -- so that the total "dependency" ratio
>is projected to be a only a tiny bit higher than at present..
Also there is one other point. In the U.S, anyway the increase in the
ratio of seniors to others is projected to occur alongside a drop in the
ratio of children to population -- so that the total "dependency" ratio
is projected to be a only a tiny bit higher than at present...
Michael Perelman wr
You are correct.
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:15:05PM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
> I wrote:
> > > and what's wrong with an aging population? I don't think biology is
> > destiny.
>
> Michael Perelman:
> >The problem is that it means a high dependency ratio; just as is found in
> >a very
> >young p
I wrote:
> > and what's wrong with an aging population? I don't think biology is
> destiny.
Michael Perelman:
>The problem is that it means a high dependency ratio; just as is found in
>a very
>young population.
the dependency ratio doesn't automatically rise with the age of the
population. I
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