Ladies and gentlemen, the Golden Boy of American Conservatism today:

In Wisconsin and Ohio, they have decided there can no longer be two classes of citizens: one that receives rich health and pension benefits, and all the rest who are left to pay for them.

Democrat or Republican, it doesn’t matter. We are all facing the same problems. These problems are bigger than either political party. The promises of the past are too expensive, and the prospects of the future are too important to stay on the old, failed course.

That would be Chris Christie, giving his budget address in New Jersey on Tuesday.

The first thing you’ll notice is that a Republican is waging class war, something which apparently is permitted so long as the class doesn’t include the wealthiest two percent of Americans. (If you want to be precise, it’s really divide-and-conquer, couched in resentful rhetoric.)

But here’s the line that’s really gnawing at us:

The promises of the past are too expensive.

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Be careful what you wish for, reports Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal:

The 401(k) generation is beginning to retire, and it isn’t a pretty sight.

The retirement savings plans that many baby boomers thought would see them through old age are falling short in many cases.

You remember the pitch for 401(k)s, don’t you? No? Here, let the WSJ rub it in:

Tax-deferred 401(k) retirement accounts came into wide use in the 1980s, making baby boomers trying to retire now among the first to rely heavily on them…

Initially envisioned as a way for management-level people to put aside extra retirement money, the 401(k) was embraced by big companies in the 1980s as a replacement for costly pension funds. Suddenly, they were able to transfer the burden of funding employees’ retirement to the employees themselves.

Financial freedom! Well, for corporations. You, on the other hand, might want to practice your Greeter skills.

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Speaking at a “gathering of business officials in Long Island” — appearance fee not reported — Sarah Palin® demonstrated the commanding leadership style that will make her the runaway winner in 2012:

“I am still thinking of leading this country. I am still thinking about it. I haven’t made up my mind.”

Sarah Palin: In Your Heart, You Know She’ll Get Around To It Sometime.

Palin talks 2012, mocks Michelle Obama [CNN]

Just when America teeters on the verge of admitting Libertarians into polite company, John Stossel steps forward to remind us that they’re all batshit crazy:

Here’s a novel idea: Escape the suffocating chains of intrusive government by starting your own country!

That’s Patri Friedman’s idea. He comes from an impressive line of libertarian thinkers. Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prize-winning free-market economist, was his grandfather. His father is David Friedman, author of the libertarian classic “The Machinery of Freedom.” Milton Friedman advocated severely limited government. David Friedman thinks we need no government at all. And now Patri believes he has an effective solution to bad government: communities on the ocean surface, or seasteading.

To be clear, this isn’t some fanciful Ark, a rhetorical device to express the wistful desires of disenchanted progs to depart for the high seas and indulge in wanton drug-fueled orgies live a life free of people like John Stossel. No, Miltie’s Grandspawn is serious:

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If you’ve ever found yourself wondering, “What would happen if somebody mashed up Google Streetview with Zombies?”, well, now you know.

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