Otherwise, they say, the twin pressures of budgetary restraint and demographic changes will "overwhelm" the entire system.

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Adam Smith, who is considered the father of capitalism, viewed it as both competitive and cooperative, a societal system based on self-interest, self-restraint, morality and justice.

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This democratic informality eschews the star system for what the principals speak of as "normality" and "restraint, " qualities notably absent in today's culture, although no one could call their buildings understated.

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According to calculations by the Social Security administration's chief actuary, however, it is possible to transform Social Security fundamentally without resorting to tax increases or benefit cuts if we exercise reasonable restraint on federal spending growth and prudent borrowing to finance the transition to a new system of large personal-retirement accounts.

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