falling-off-a-cliff effect from which it would be nearly impossible to recover.

I fall off my chair seeing such idiotic rhetoric.

That is to say, there won't be enough workers to pay for the pensions of all those long-living retirees.

As always, assuming a constant retirement age... and no money spent on children, jobless, incapacitated, etc...

One concerns Eastern Europe, where trends date from the Communist period and portend a special, and especially virulent, class of social problems.

Was communism better for family building than modern capitalism?!

The article's language suggests otherwise... They pretend the problem originates in communist times, rather than the collapse that followed under neo-capitalism with IMF recipe.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}