While I was going on about pi day and Einstein’s birthday I missed another significant event on March 14th: Dean Landsman’s 55th birthday. He says he has entered the age of statistical irrelevance.
Happy birthday, Dean! There’s a benefit to falling off the media marketeers’ radar.
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Social Security is doing fine and is expected to do fine for next forty or so years. A more pressing problem is looming in private pensions, but a bit of sensible policy making would take care of that too.
That being said, I still think the Boomers ought to be eaten.
May I point out that if you get eaten, the Social Security check is the least of your concerns? Perspective is important! Here’s a good overview on SS, and here’s a super wonk blogger on the topic.
I was kidding about eating the Boomers. Some of my best friends, etc. . . But if anyone insists on a recipe, I’m ready.
soylent boom
I make light of it, but I find the “generational smackdown” as strangely compelling as it is ultimately pernicious. It was designed to wreack mental havoc on the good-hearted Boomers, who are disposed to think of the world they’ll leave behind, and to appeal to the selfish ones, who think there’s a way to day-trade money that was never intended to be traditional savings. The psy war is part of a Leninist strategy, McD.
Things are worse than originally perceived. I turn 55, and now people discuss the boomer aging oprocess as though I am 7 years older than that. Is it the gray in my beard? Egad, oi vey, and creak. Social Security?
Oh well. If W has his way before he leaves office Social Security will be just something people talk about but never really quite experience of truly partake in, kinda like Social Networking.
http://www.dailyrotten.com or http://www.rotten.com/today will keep you up to date on all that news you missed