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Evidently, this topic was broached on PBS on Sunday (NOW).
One of the discussants was mentioning that the youth is going to start migrating en masse after they start to realize the implications of changes to the social security system.
Interestingly, many of us seem to be leaving to high tax nations that promise health care (even shoddy systems, according to the hype). So that tells me something about what we want and are willing to give up for it.
This phenomenon should accurately be called a "brain drain." I find it very strange that people would advocate people leaving more rapidly when those people are vital to the economy and their brainpower (trained by an excellent higher education system) will be forever lost to the nation that subsidized it.
Seems a more rational response would be to find incentives to make them stay.
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