Science fiction writer Ben Bova wrote:
The most prescient — and chilling — of all the science fiction stories ever written, though, is “The Marching Morons,” by Cyril M. Kornbluth, first published in 1951. It should be required reading in every school on Earth.

The point that Kornbluth makes is simple, and scary: dumbbells have more children than geniuses. In “The Marching Morons” he carries that idea to its extreme, but logical, conclusion.

Kornbluth tells of a future world that is overrun with dummies: men and women who don’t know anything beyond their own shallow personal interests. They don’t know how their society works, or who is running it. All they care about is their personal — and immediate — gratification.

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs

So now we have to borrow mo money from future taxpayers and the Asians.
Unreal.
For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits — billions more each year. (More like hundreds of billions)

Not anymore. This year, for the first time since the 1980s, when Congress last overhauled Social Security, the retirement program is projected to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes — nearly $29 billion more. More from the article.....
They will need to raise payroll taxes or extend the retirement age to like 102.
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