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rachel_abby_reads's review against another edition
2.0
The premise is that the American population is aging, and that medical advances have made it so that the aging population is the growing faster and living longer. Add to that the social obligations that we have taken on: Medicare, Social Security and drug benefits for Seniors, just to name a few. Compounding the difficulties is that people aren't having as many babies as they once did. This means that there will be fewer working adults paying taxes to support the programs supporting the aged adults. Financial gloom, doom, chaos and disaster, personally and nationally!
I tried to read this book, but it defeated me. I kept waiting for it to come to the point, and the point seemed to be the inevitability of the decline of fiscal America, even if we resorted to raising taxes and reducing benefits on government pay outs. I tried to flip to the end and find out what their conclusion was, but I'd hit my limit.
(I also thought it was a little embarrassing how often one of the authors kept citing his own studies. He may be one of the few -or only- people researching this particular economic issue, but it still seemed self-serving.)
I tried to read this book, but it defeated me. I kept waiting for it to come to the point, and the point seemed to be the inevitability of the decline of fiscal America, even if we resorted to raising taxes and reducing benefits on government pay outs. I tried to flip to the end and find out what their conclusion was, but I'd hit my limit.
(I also thought it was a little embarrassing how often one of the authors kept citing his own studies. He may be one of the few -or only- people researching this particular economic issue, but it still seemed self-serving.)
daaan's review against another edition
1.0
As with all politics/economics books written by americans, this was too amerocentric to be enjoyable. The numbers lacked meaning in many places, the solutions seemed unrealistic. Not enough was done to build the premise.
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