That is a pretty depressing call to arms: become more dynamic so Europe can still afford old-age pensions and unemployment benefits.

但这个战斗号角令人极为沮丧：鼓吹欧洲将变得更富有活力，以便它依旧能够支付养老金和失业救济金（讽刺）。

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We will ensure that all social security benefits are paid on time. We will improve the system of basic old-age insurance for urban workers.

切实保证各项社会保险金的及时支付。

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All they have is the land, and yet, in the onslaught of old age, they are increasingly alienated from the land, which now provides them with no actual benefits.

他们拥有的只有土地，但随着年老，他们和土地的关系也日渐疏远，赖以生存的土地对他们已无价值可言。

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"The court finds that the (EU) directive does not oblige the member states themselves to fund the rights to old age benefits, " it said in a statement.

BBC: NEWS | Business | EU rules on bust pension schemes

We're heading for a showdown between the recipients of old-age benefits, and recipients of all the other kinds of benefits.

WSJ: The Evanescence of Majorities

The Japanese pension system has been used by politicians (as has the U.S. social security system) to buy votes and contributions of the old age lobby, such that benefits being received are substantially, sometimes vastly (8 or 9 times), greater than the amounts paid in.

FORBES: Why the Bureaucracy Won't Reform Old Age Welfare