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• JUST A LITTLE ONE-SENTENCE REMINDER ABOUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM FACING AMERICA FOREVER: We award nine million "succinctness points" to beloved CBO director Doug Elmendorf: "The country faces a fundamental disconnect between the services the people expect the government to provide, particularly in the form of benefits for older Americans, and the tax revenues that people are willing to send to the government to finance those services." Blah blah blah, whatever, Elfinwhore. [Ezra Klein ]