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That's the respond to your statement above:

> How many children my neighbor has impacts my social security payments or other retirement disbursements in no tangible way.

All the retirement savings you have, whether state-managed or private-managed, are just some coupons for your share in the economy of the future. If the economy of the future shrinks your coupons will be worthless.

The number of kids you and your neighbor have not only have an impact on your retirement, these kids are your retirement.




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