Krugman on the returns/growth contradiction

I haven't seen a convincing answer to this claim, which Krugman works out in detail in the column:

Schemes for Social Security privatization, like the one described in the 2004 Economic Report of the President, invariably assume that investing in stocks will yield a high annual rate of return, 6.5 or 7 percent after inflation, for at least the next 75 years. Without that assumption, these schemes can't deliver on their promises. Yet a rate of return that high is mathematically impossible unless the economy grows much faster than anyone is now expecting.

If he's right, it blows up most arguments for private accounts.