U.N. conference to grapple with problems of the elderly population bomb

AP via Boston.com ^ | 4/6/02 | Jerome Socolovsky

[GeneD]

MADRID, Spain (AP) The predictions are almost cataclysmic: In 50 years, if trends continue, the number of people older than 60 will triple. Those 2 billion seniors would outnumber the world's youths.

By 2150, one-third of the world's population would be older than 60.

[GeneD]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

[Pearls Before Swine]

Self correcting problem. Feral youths will prey on us.

[WaterDragon]

The UN's idea of 'grappling' with a problem is to see how far it can bend over for the socialists.

[patton]

One of the key issues is aging in developing countries. Now that family planning programs have lowered birth rates, populations are getting older faster than societies can cope, the United Nations says. With limited governmental means to provide for elderly care, the burden is expected to fall on already struggling families.

''In Africa, because of the AIDS epidemic, it is often the grandparents who are taking care of children,'' said Eduardo Rodriguez, president of the Spanish Confederation of Elderly Organizations and co-chairman of the non-governmental meeting.

So - fewer people means more people?

[sugar_puddin]

Delegates at the Second World Assembly on Aging the first was 20 years ago in Vienna, Austria will try to agree on an action plan for addressing a host of aging-related issues: retirement age flexibility; living with dependency; elderly benefits; technology and the aging process; death matters such as euthanasia.

I'm sure euthanasia will be the UN's answer to the elderly, sick and disabled.

[hoosierham]

The UN is (are) the socialists.

Their solution will be one that involves coercion and death , you may be sure.Older people had better be prepared to resist ---see the movie SOYLENT GREEN !

[Arleigh]

Suggestions:

1) Allow people over 65 to take a tax credit for the cigarette taxes they pay.

2)Distribute crack and heroin seized in federal drug raids free to nursing home residents.

3)All-You-Can-Eat Big Mac Early Bird Specials at McDonalds.

4)More X-treme sports at the Senior Olympics.

5)Spread rumors among the Bloods that the Crips have traded in their canes for walkers.

6)Mosh pits at Knights of Columbus dances.

7)AARP public service announcements that drinking and driving DO mix.

8)Introduce new Malt Liquor/Metamucil blend in 40 oz bottles.

[Eastbound]

How much more spendable income for investments and retirement plans would there be if most bureaucracy-supporting taxes were eliminated?

Naw. We can't have those old folks living the life of Reilly while us bureaucrats, who, unaccustomed as were are to productive labor and self-responsibility are forced to dumpster-dive to survive.

Hey, if we eliminated all unnecessary bureaucrats -- along with their phoney baloney agencies, that would leave plenty of room for the "elderly population bomb. "