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Old 06-22-2009, 06:29 PM   #1
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Barrons points out methodological issues with the "trust fund exhaustion by 2016" projection; this author says harmonizing the mean retirement age w/actual dept. of Treasury estimates puts you at 2018, and that's not accounting for the effect of the 08 meltdown. Eeenteresting.
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Old 06-22-2009, 06:32 PM   #2
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the 'new era' will begin on Dec 21, 2012....


so, no need to worry about this.
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Barrons points out methodological issues with the "trust fund exhaustion by 2016" projection; this author says harmonizing the mean retirement age w/actual dept. of Treasury estimates puts you at 2018, and that's not accounting for the effect of the 08 meltdown. Eeenteresting.
Apparently Barrons needs one of these, which clearly points out that it doesn't matter if SS makes it until 2018...we're all going to be gone by 2016, so WTF!


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Um is this the Mayan prophecy thing?
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Um is this the Mayan prophecy thing?
Where've you been?
Don't tell me you're not getting ready!...
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Still am ready buddy, got a bunker full of spam and bottled water from Y2K... well, the Spam will still be just as good as new...
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Um is this the Mayan prophecy thing?

Will we be jumping on a comet on that day?

Hopefully if everything ends on that day god does a better building job on the next try.
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I'm couting on obamacare to get me my SS; he'll kill off all the over 80s.

Just kidding, we'll get ours but it's still a crappy system.
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the 'new era' will begin on Dec 21, 2012....


so, no need to worry about this.
I know you're kidding, but just imagine there are actually thousands (if not millioins) of people preparing for doomsday according to the Mayans and Nostradamus...



I guess it will be the first time in umpteen thousand years that the earth, moon and sun will align with our galaxy....OOOOOOooooooo

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I know you're kidding, but just imagine there are actually thousands (if not millioins) of people preparing for doomsday according to the Mayans and Nostradamus...



I guess it will be the first time in umpteen thousand years that the earth, moon and sun will align with our galaxy....OOOOOOooooooo
Of course i hav eheard of the Myan calender running out in 2012 and the end of the world. But what i didn't know until lst week was the it had to do with another planet hitting the earth. I learned of the planet and it being a hoax last week. I think it was either in Live Science or Scientific American that i read an astronomer was recieving a lot of e-mails about this, and repling that there was no planet, that it was all a hoax that took on a life of its own.
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