[Muncle]

Originally Posted by RCT

LOl Tal, yea, I know, like Methusela (can't remember spelling on that one, sorry Dad ) was like what, 950 or something years old? Wow, how would you plan on retirement income lasting that long??

Many historians attribute the fall of Israel to this very fact. Their Social Security and Medicare costs were exorbitant. There were something like 47 retirees for each workers. FICA took 68% of your gross pay, capped at 14,000 drachma. As there were lepers everywhere one looked, there was intense pressure for socialized medicine and government control of the drug industry. The only thing the saved the people was when a descendant of Moses introduced something called soylent green, whatever that was.