Once any nation learns they can vote themselves money from the public treasury, they are doomed to collapse. We now have 50% of the population receiving money from the government. Social Security, Welfare, Disability, Military and Government retirement, Food Stamps, unemployment, Medicaid, and other programs. This is not to say any of those programs are bad, just that when over 1/2 the people receive them we fail as a nation. Either the contributing population is growing fast enough to support it, or less people have to receive them.
China just changed their "one child" policy for this very reason. They know that they will never be able to support their aging population unless they expand the new population base.
So in 50 years we will be a very different place, one I don't want to be around to see.
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