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" Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom. "

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" I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't. "

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" The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. "

" If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. "

" Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself. "

" The $100 bill may be America's most successful export. "

" I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy. "

" Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila. "

" To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts. "

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" Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. "

" There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks. "

" Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. "

" Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates. "

" With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. "

" In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. "

" Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you. "

" What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience. "

" I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama. "

" You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas. "

" The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change. "

" The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. "

" If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves. "

" Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority. "

" Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery. "

" What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war. "

" Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's. "

" To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. "

" You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. "

" What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough. "

" Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke. "

" The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted. "