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The eldest members of the baby boom generation (born 1946 to 1964) turned 60 during W's presidency.

I'm not absolutely certain these numbers are correct, but I think I heard that when Social Security was started in the 1930s, there were about 17 workers for each retiree, but today that number is down to between 1 and 2.

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