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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Monday, January 24, 2005

Gender and race-based Social Security is bad, m'kay

Let me say once again that the idea of tying Social Security payments to race and gender is an awful idea and one that should die quickly.

Why would you punish anyone genetically predisposed to live longer? And what happens if they don't live as long as they are supposed to? And how much of a person does a black person become?

I just can't see this flying very high before it crashes to the ground.