Added to which the cost of keeping them alive to 100 and looking after them is crippling. And very few have any quality of life at that age.
We need life clocks like in Logan's Run. Once you get to 80 you're off to carousel.
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not sure there is a workable solution that will suit western and 1st world ideals. to get a pension of about 30k a young person starting out needs to save about 500 a month for working life. for most, thats not possible, especially because house prices are so high, and most of the property and cash is held by the current old, and the very wealthy.
obviously the best solution will be for the young to look after their parents, both care wise and financially.....yeah, right:rolleyes:
the solution is make drink, drugs, tobacco loads cheaper stop whining on about obesity and lack of exercise and let people lead short, unhealthy but fun-packed lives.
They told everyone to stop eating fat because of heart disease, and the idiots who listened are now all on pills for depression because their serotonin levels are so low, and now they've decided it wasn't bad for you after all.
Solution: Make it illegal for the government to interfere in people's lives or tax or ban things because some self-important nonce of a doctor decides it's 'bad'; save a shedload of money on idiotic departments and campaigns and reduce average life expectancy back down to three score and ten like the Bible says it's supposed to be.
With a retirement age of 67 most people will only get a pension for 3 years. Problem solved.
at a guess the state probably pays out 60 billion in state pensions from about 100 billion that comes in(very rough figure lol), so its only leaving 40 billion for health care and all the other things like maternity , bereavement etc.
we need to increase ni payments or reduce the length we pay them, or amount given.....or steal from peter....
Time to revisit those controversial ideas put forward by Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom and Judge John Pickles and many others and rejected out of hand by successive governments who really wouldn't care if they didn't fear it would lose them the vote.
Making the sale and use of all drugs legal - the government can take on the cultivation/manufacture of drugs and sell them at licensed outlets like they do with alcohol. There is an enormous mark up with this, which is all money for the treasury. Drug-related crime rates will drop through the floor, meaning an end to the cripplingly expensive 'war on drugs' and the burden on the courts and the prison service will be greatly reduced.
There will be casualties, but the way I see it every death as a result of drug abuse is a pension saved. Sounds a bit harsh and heartless, but we are heading for some desperate times, and the current way of doing things isn't working.
We're trying to reduce the length of time people live, not increase it so how would that work? heavy smokers pay more in duty and tax than it costs to treat them in any case, and there's not much can be done for most of them.
Andrew's right, people are so thick that they think if there was just enough money we could all live forever.
I'm also fed up with the assumption that the only problem with any service or system is that it doesn't have enough money being chucked at it.
That seems to be taken for granted now when the fact is that you could chuck billions more in and nothing would improve because the real problem is incompetence, laziness and stupidity.