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Saving Social Security, Episode 2: Boom Baby Boom!

The Demographic Death Grip

Reason Staff | 10.10.2008 12:00 PM

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Worried about the viability of Social Security? Unless you're already collecting it, you should be!

Follow the animated adventures of Sonny, exactly the sort of youth who is set to get screwed by a system designed during The Great Depression, when workers were plenty and retirees rare.

Episode 2 of the series Saving Social Security is titled "Boom Baby Boom" and explains the demographic death grip that will force major cuts in benefits or massive increases in taxes (or both) to pay for the nation's mandatory savings plan.

Created by Lineplot Productions.

Watch episode 1, "Pimp My Walker," by clicking below:

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