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He was mostly grimacing about Social Security.
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And then in 2000--well, I'll get to the future.
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So anyway, in those debates three mistakes were made.
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So Bush argued that the returns on Social Security were disastrously low.
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He said the whole program is in a terrible crisis
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and we've got to privatize to save the system.
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How did it get into the crisis?
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Well, it wasn't clear exactly how it got into the crisis,
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but it seems like the baby boomers had something to do with it.
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They're all getting old and they're going to have to get these huge Social Security payments,
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and that's why we're in the crisis
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because the baby boomers are getting old.