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Last time around I noted, with the allusive casualness deemed proper for all book reviewers, the awful ruin that awaits the Social Security system as it gets hit by our declining birth rates.

In case you were wondering how I know so much, the answer is I cribbed it, as we knowing alluders often do, from some other books that I had just been reading. E.g., The Crisis in Social Security, latest offering of a nascent think-tank called the Institute for Contemporary Studies (Suite 812, 260 California St., San Francisco, 94111; $5.95). A distinguished, ideologically balanced group of experts (Milton Friedman, Joseph Pechman, Edward Cowan, Rita Campbell, Martin Feldstein, editor Michael Boskin) succeeded in convincing me that Social Security will go broke c. 2000—about the time that I am due to start collecting.

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Last time around I noted, with the allusive casualness deemed proper for all book reviewers, the awful ruin that awaits the Social Security system as it gets hit by our declining birth rates.

In case you were wondering how I know so much, the answer is I cribbed it, as we knowing alluders often do, from some other books that I had just been reading. E.g., The Crisis in Social Security, latest offering of a nascent think-tank called the Institute for Contemporary Studies (Suite 812, 260 California St., San Francisco, 94111; $5.95). A distinguished, ideologically balanced group of experts (Milton Friedman, Joseph Pechman, Edward Cowan, Rita Campbell, Martin Feldstein, editor Michael Boskin) succeeded in convincing me that Social Security will go broke c. 2000—about the time that I am due to start collecting.