Thinking on the perspective of my book's content and subject matter, I was thinking about the applicable ramifications of an aging and expanding population.
The ugly truth is that the reason our economy stinks is because our system was never designed to accommodate our current population. Not only was there a boom of people that are now reaching the medicare and social security years, but the welfare system cannot handle the extensive strain of destitute new mothers.
We live longer. We reproduce more and later in life. The population figures alone will break our system long before the baby boomers die off. None of this was anyone's fault that is still alive. The seeds for this catastrophe were sown in the years during and shortly after WWI. Welfare came later, but was a flawed system from the start.
Now, the actions of our government are indicative of our upbringing. We, as a nation, are too scared of failure to strike out and create something new. Therefore the right answer has to be putting a band aid on the fracturing systems currently in place.
The truth is that the system is broken, and the generation in charge is too frightened to take the necessary risks to fix it. Starting from scratch is the only way to address the demands of our current life span capability and population growth rate. Until this happens, the travesties occurring to our senior citizens will continue and will only worsen. Our welfare system will continue to be abused and overused.
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