Thomas Friedman Wants Us to Follow Greece

At least he does when it comes to restructuring our Social Security system. One of the widely ridiculed features of Greece's social welfare system was a differential retirement age for the public pension system that made the qualifying age for their Social Security system dependent on a worker's occupation. According to a widely repeated account hair dressers could retire at age 50.

The co-chairs of President Obama's deficit commission, Morgan Stanley director Erskine Bowles and former...