If Social Security is any guide, Americans should treat long-term federal promises like “Scott’s Tots”: big applause today, awkward reckoning tomorrow.

Fourteen years ago this month, The Office aired the episode, Scott’s Tots, in which the well-meaning but highly delusional manager of a struggling paper company, Michael Scott, must face the music for past decisions. Ten years prior, he had promised an entire third-grade class that he would pay their college tuition if they graduated from high school. The only catch was that, as he says in the episode, he expected to be a millionaire when he made that promise.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x0N2ZxQJYTw

Why are we talking about a fourteen-year-old episode of The Office? Because the federal government has just created its own version of Scott’s Tots. Unlike Michael Scott, who at least had the decency to look mortified even in the photo of him making the promise, Washington types are patting themselves on the back.

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/scotts-tots-trump-accounts-and-what-washington-can-learn-from-the-office/