CoolP wrote on Aug 6^th, 2012 at 2:54am:

701151 wrote on Aug 6th, 2012 at 2:16am: our future will be secure. Erm, are you still with us?  :-?

Securing for the future means securing twenty years ahead. Why? One cannot plan a century, two centuries, or a millenia ahead. We cannot predict what the weather will be, with 100% assurance for a month ahead, let alone in a fortnight. We cannot predict the future, be it political, geological, or anything else. If they had planned the country for a century into the future in 1900, our nation would not have gone as far, and we would not be as advanced, because things are forever changing, and even if you plan for twenty years, by the end, the plans for that infrastructure would be outdated, and in need of replacement. It is hard to plan for the future, so our future as we see it will be secure, because we know it will be different in 2022.