Quote of the Day: Social Security

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From Robert Reischauer, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, talking about Social Security:

It’s quite a manageable problem.

Yep. We could solve Social Security for all time in about a day of easy negotiations if both Democrats and Republicans were actually serious about solving it. The required set of benefit cuts and revenue increases would be so minor, and would phase in over such a long period, that virtually no one would even notice.

Too bad we’re not serious about it.