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And that's exactly what Bush and everybody else is predicting.
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So now you understand where the 1 to 2 percent comes from that you're going to get.
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If the population is stable, the ratio of young to old,
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the rate of return on Social Security is going to be equal to
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the rate of growth of wages.
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So it's not 0 as in the first parable, because wages are actually growing.
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It's between 1 and 2 percent, which is a bad return compared
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to the rate of interest, and that's why every generation is losing.
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Okay, so let's do one more thing.
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So the baby boom, does the baby boom make things worse or better?
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How can you think about it?
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It's so simple minded to think this way.