Posted on 09/30/2013 8:03:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study being issued Tuesday by the United Nations and an elder rights group.
The report ranks the social and economic well-being of elders in 91 countries, with Sweden coming out on top and Afghanistan at the bottom. It reflects what advocates for the old have been warning, with increasing urgency, for years: Nations are simply not working quickly enough to cope with a population graying faster than ever before. By the year 2050, for the first time in history, seniors over the age of 60 will outnumber children under the age of 15. …
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so what? it will happen anyway
Ruh-roh!
Soylent Green.
Do away with immunization! Release smallpox, plague, diphtherya and other nasties back into the population! Ban anti-biotics!
That is how the population was controlled in the olden days.
How can this be true? I’m pretty sure that Europe and Obama have active plans on how to deal with their aging populations, they will just withhold care and medicine until they are no longer a problem.
Politicians and rich donors exempt.
Politicians and rich donors exempt.
naturally, Soylent Green is for the masses not the elite, just like Obamacare.
KenyanKare will fix it.
Just copy the model.
“advanced” societies have aborted and contracepted ourselves out of existence.
Global elites: No problem, we’ve got “special” plans for ‘em.
but no, we can't do that....too many adults dislike children around, maybe actually hate them, afterall, they're loud, and energetic, and needy, and happy......can't have that around...
Great movie. I keep thinking that a remake will be made but it will probably be screwed up and blame bush for everything.
Obamacare will eliminate them in the U.S.
Wow. I have been around for just shy of 55 years. I guess they aren’t as smart as they think they are.
I do have a birth certificate, am looking at them right now (the long form and the short fancy shmancy one ). Funnily enough,I had to show them today to get my passport renewed (something I do every 5 years here).
You may believe that you are being wry but there is truth in what you write. The other concern is the Feds working to turn children against their parents There will be a “Boomer Holocaust) coming
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