We've started to change the conversation about Social Security ever so slightly. Whether this blog flapping its wings had anything to do with it, I don't know, but in any case we've had several people in non-crazy blue blogs say that we need to increase Social Security benefits.
What struck me was that there has been an increasing acknowledgment that the 401K experiment was a failure. In response to this there was discussion of improvements to that system that might pay off for current 25-year-olds. Maybe we can re-run the experiment for another couple of generations and see how it works. But we also need to figure out how to deal the victims of this failed experiment. Soon.