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Quote by: texasdave  coffee,
The population has been growing but if we had not eliminated about 50 million of our taxpayers then the population growth would have been greater than it was and it would have compensated for the rise in life expectancies. The framers of the plan were well aware of increasing lifespans since medical technology was increasing in their day. They could predict the future needs of the plan by looking at birth rates. What they did not anticipate was the demographic disaster of abortion and the harm it would cause to the Social Security system they were crafting. You cannot eliminate 50 million people without some economic impact. |
Still a joke, dave. Each person is supposed to take out of social security what each person puts into it. The government never had the intention of having current taxpayers fund retired people; the intention was to create a national savings account, a retirement fund that each person paid into and each person (and their dependents) took out of.
It doesn't matter that there are 50 million people fewer than there might have been -- a number I find so laughable that I refuse to use it any more. Not only did the aborted fetuses never make it to the status of a person, but arguing that their children were also eliminated? You might as well argue that birth control pills and condoms have slaughtered 100 million people, as surely there have been that many conceptions blocked. Or the number of people killed when someone changed their mind about having sex! Or when people like me decided not to have kids! My god, I have killed 2.3 people that never existed! I'm a mass murderer!
There could be 50 trillion people eliminated, as long as they were eliminated before they entered the system. In fact, since 50 million figments of your imagination never made it into reality, we have saved billions of dollars on schooling, medicine, and other social services. Since many of those figments (which I will refer to hereafter as Smurfs) would have become criminals, we have saved billions in court fees and incarceration costs. We have also prevented hundreds of thousands of crimes. In fact, by arguing that all of those Smurfs should have been born, you are saying that you want there to be more criminals! How can you support rape and murder, dave? And here I thought you were a Christian.