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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Feb 26 14:13:19 2012, in response to Re: Re ality gap, posted by JayMan on Sun Feb 26 12:07:08 2012. a major fundamental cause of the problems these countries face is that they are accumulating an overabundance of retirees without young workers to support themOf course, given the perpetual weakening economies in the PIGS nations, there's even less incentive to have children, and in a country like Greece's case, the backup option of state employment isn't going to exist, so what would an increase in population do except serve as a burden for the state to educate and then support along with the retirees? Unless Greece wants to be paid for each immigrant they churn out in the future, there's little to no reason why Greece should bother pumping up their birth rate when there's no work for the present or their future to support children now or in the future as adults. |
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