We’re hoping someone can help us with this. Following up on yesterday evening’s post on Joe Klein’s comments yesterday on Meet the Press, we are hoping some TPM Reader can provide us with an example from Klein’s writing (columns, magazine articles, even public comments) in which he explains his contention that whereas Social Security was suited to the ‘industrial age’ it is not well suited to the ‘information age’, whereas a private accounts system is.
To refresh memories on the key passage …
I agree with Paul in that private accounts have nothing to do with solvency and solvency is the issue. I disagree with Paul because I think private accounts a terrific policy and that in the information age, you’re going to need different kinds of structures in the entitlement area than you had in the industrial age. But it is very hard to do that kind of change under these political circumstances where you have the parties at such loggerheads.
If anyone knows of an example where <$NoAd$> he explains this argument, please send it along.
