The number of workers per Medicare beneficiary already has plummeted from 4.1 in 1970 to 3.2 in 2011 and is expected to nose-dive even further to 2.1 by 2080.
It just leaves less left over, so if Cano's health or production takes a nose dive in his mid-to-late 30s, it may not be as easy for the Yankees to spend their way around it.
On another dismal day for U.S. equities, a combination of bad economic data and riots in debt-ridden Greece have sent markets on a nose dive, as they approach a seventh consecutive week of declines.