Security?

• Bennett received his Social Security card (you've just gotta laugh when you see mail addressed to a 3 week old marked OFFICIAL BUSINESS) yesterday. Just a subtle reminder that he better start working and saving soon.  He'll be about my age when the S.S. well will run dry.  In the meantime, we'll prepare for the IRS audit on his piggy bank.
• Bennett saw his dentist (me) today for an oral evaluation.  He was diagnosed with Epstein's pearls:  small, white, pearl-like spots that appear on the roof of the mouth of 70+% of newborns. These bumps are harmless and tend to disappear within a few weeks.

Some other kid with Epstein's Pearls

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  Speaking of Social Security (sorry, I promise not to use this blog as a political forum), isn't it really a pyramid scheme?:

  Social Security has been a pyramid scheme from the beginning. Those who paid in first received money from those who paid in second — and so on, generation after generation. This was great so long as the small generation when Social Security began was being supported by larger generations resulting from the baby boom. But, like all pyramid schemes, the whole thing is in big trouble once the pyramid stops growing. When the baby boomers retire, that will be the moment of truth — or of more artful lies. - Thomas Sowell, Economist