An Aging Population and Drying Paint: Things People Worry About in Washington

From reading the newspapers and blogs you would think everything must be great in the country. Hey, no problems of mass unemployment, poverty, folks losing their homes, etc. How else can we explain the obsession with an aging population?


Yes, the population is aging, just as it has been aging over the last century. Yeah, we're living longer. You got any bad news for me?


Today we have Kevin Drum and Ezra Klein giving us the bad news. It seems Medicare's costs are projected to increase by 2.5 p...

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Published on March 21, 2013 11:45
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