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Lileks is funny today::

Wow. Wow. Get it? They’ve just made the costs of raising your own kids and the taxes paid to support “adults who don’t work for wages” morally equivalent, part of your general responsibility as a citizen. Apparently your obligation to fund the sunset years of Theoretical Gramps is ethically indistinguishable from your obligation to the kid across from the dinner table with your chin and last name.

heh.

Jim Angle, FOXnews’ Social Security Wonk, said something while covering for Brit Hume on Friday, that should just clinch it for the White House: If you’re afraid that personal accounts are a “risky scheme” you can put yours in US Treasury Bonds, which is just what the SSA does with its money, and end up with the same amount of money when you retire as if you didn’t opt into the program, but the difference is you own that money and can leave it to your kids. So, what on earth is so ‘orrible about that?