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Old 11-27-2007, 05:45 PM   #17
Griff
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Originally Posted by lookout123 View Post
i'm thinking the 16-30 range. gives us a couple more elections to completely screw up with successively lower turnout. a couple more recessions and on real big one tipping over when people realize that real estate is a comodity and the baby boom generation is fading out and we have way more supply than demand. a couple more military actions with dubious outcomes creating more passively minded skeptics until very few believe anything is worth fighting for.
I like my financial planners a little more pollyana-ish.

I went with 50. There will be many many years of denial, but all empires contract. Its the nature of the beast. We could string it out longer if we had a few Presidents with less vision but we don't like small people in charge.
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