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applegrove

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15. Someone who thinks America is on the brink of discovering how to
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 01:49 AM
Dec 2016

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stop aging. Thus people could live 200 years. Thus the usa would have to double, triple, quadruple, quintuble the population. There would literally be no room. Unless not everyone gets the drug or scientific breakthrough. Which means only rich people. Which means medicare has to go. And Obama care. And there needs to be lots and lots of pollution. To kill more people....antidotes would be available for people who could afford it. Making sure only a small portion of the population survives to 200. But cancer research, funded by government, that doesn't get rolled back. So the science is not rolled back, just the ability of all to afford science. Makes a lot of sense if you think about it like that. I have not talked to Paul Ryan or read anything where he talks about why he does what he does. So I'm guessing. Would also explain why every GOPer thinks they absolutely need tens of millions of dollars. If you and your family live that long you do need that much money. I know that if they figure out how to stop ageing not everyone could get it - there is not enough room on the planet. I just think the right to live till 200 should go to people like the late Maya Angelou if it is scarse. You know, people who really have something important to say.

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