Show economist forecasts age Vs youth struggle dr frank S dickinson university of illinois economist foresees the approach of a class struggle between age and youth lie he said in an address recently that the war of the would unfold as a problem 4 far more demanding than the oft discussed conflict between capital and labor dr dickinson said the decreasing birth rate and the increasing life span were causes behind the struggle of classes in america but he said he does not expect the struggle to become critical until 1980 when he estimated there will be persons in the united states more than 65 years of age he possible results of what he predicted would be the greatest cultural and social change since the fall of rome as follows pension taxation claiming one fourth the income of workers and employers destruction of the two major political parties control by the hand that rocks the rocking chair substitution of vot for democracy with one of every four voters over the 85 65 year mark |