Why bother? After all, Charlie Crist also says that there’s nothing really wrong with Social Security in his discussion with the editors of the Orlando Sentinel, from which this clip comes. Despite the fact that it’s already spending more than it’s receiving from workers nine years ahead of earlier predictions from the CBO and trustees, Crist insists that it will remain solvent until “2037 or 2041.” The authority he cites for this reassuring analysis? Paul Krugman.
If that’s the case, then we hardly need more suckers to throw at the bottom end of the Ponzi scheme. But one should also keep in mind that the illegal immigrants to whom Crist wants to offer amnesty-by-some-other-name aren’t all 21 years old, either. They will have a wide age distribution — and as soon as they get accepted into the system, they become eligible for benefits when they reach the age triggers, too. They won’t all be entering at the bottom of the pyramid, in other words, and the commitment to benefits may add a sort of Boomer Lite entitlement bubble that will just worsen the situation.
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