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Originally Posted by Muncle
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.
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I wonder if they toasted those soylent green wafers over the burning bush??
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