outsourced. much-needed good news for america of course and for biden in a week that saw plummeting approval poll numbers. the president expressed optimism that build back better will pass the house and the senate. if the build back better commitments on child care and green energy were to be made permanent, both would qualify as the type of governoring innovations worthy of the new deal or the great society and establish new roles for american government in addressing major social problems. fdr created social security. medicare, civil rights act, the voting rights act and expanded everything good fdr did to provide more for families. eugene daniels, matthew dowd,
generalal generational theft. you are not that young but you are going to have at that pay for me. that seems to be the plan. and people younger than me are going to have to pay for me. that s what this system amounts to. it is a generational chain letter. that was what it was supposed to be when fdr set it up. what s wrong with that? the problem is that it is just fiscally unsustainable to keep promising each generation they are going to get more and more money. especially as the length of the average life is getting longer and the number of kids people are having is getting smaller so you have to support people for a longer time in retirement and you have got fewer workers who are doing it. people forget when fdr created social security most people didn t live to age # of 5. that is right. it is one of those things that