I don't know about you, but I don't associate Washington with saving. I don't believe Social Security will be there when I retire, and I don't even know anyone who does. That way there will always be plenty of money for Social Security. Let's face it, if you're counting on Social Security, you'll be living like Ghandi. Those blue aprons give me the creeps.
Education is another puzzler.
Beyond the philosophical objection that the federal government has no business nosing around in local schools, it is manifestly clear that American students have never been more illiterate. It's also true that the economy has never been better. And yet the people who work in America's offices and factories are products of the very schools we deplore. Because automation has made American business more efficient, you can pound a computer or work an assembly line as a productive cog in the economy during the day, and at night go home and watch Jerry Springer. The government's real interest in education is to advance the social engineering experiments of the loonies who wind up working in government education departments.