>>>Solution: Vote!
>>He did

Yep. With all respect to Bill: the Gerontocracy always votes, which is why rationalization of Ponzi schemes like Medicare is so difficult. The same people who deliberately underfunded the scheme that now benefits them will vote en masse to ensure the cost is borne by somebody else, meaning that chaotic collapse or revolution are the likely outcomes.

BTW, not sure whether I told you I was in Coppell earlier this year. Very likely we'll grab a place and come stay for a while next year. Gotta say: real estate in Dallas is marvelous value... this is what we're used to over here: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/288724/average-auckland-house-price-nears-$1m ... If you want a place with a bit of lawn in one of the good school zone suburbs you're looking at $1.7M average. Even apartments in Auckland have an average cost of $660K (US$400K-US$560K in the last year depending on exchange rate)

Gotta be worth a LOL that if you sell a shack in Auckland and emigrate to the US you can buy a great place and be mortgage free, while these days only the 1% can afford to move to NZ. The world is going crazy.