Let's be Doug's focus group, y'all

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 22 07:33:05 PST 1999


Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote:


>Wouldn't it be better to hammer the point that SS is _not_ an investment
>program, and that talking about "rates of return" is absurd? It seems to
>me that once you start arguing over interest rates, present value and
>all of that you habe implicitly conceded the debate; in the public mind,
>"stock market" and "highest rates of return" are indelibly one and the
>same. And the privatizers have the numbers behind them, at least until
>the bubble bursts.

I generally agree with this, but if they're using wacky numbers, they deserve public ridicule for it.

Doug



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