Harvey Rosen, the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed today that "Policy makers now need to ... take the much bigger step of permanently fixing Social Security's funding imbalance." So why does the President's plan close only 30 percent of the program's 75-year deficit? Call me crazy, but that doesn't exactly fix the imbalance.
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