Concord Coalition?

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sat Aug 17 04:29:06 PDT 2002


On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Marta Russell wrote:


> Found that one too -- "Will America Grow Up Before it Grows Old?" Do you
> recall if Peterson writes anything about the SS disability program?

I'm bet not directly (it's not a consensus builder), but he might well have written something terrible indirectly. Most SS privatizers ignore both the transition costs and the disability program, because when those figures are entered back in, their proposals look barbarian.

Doug once interviewed a woman who had a great spiel on this. She was mainly concentrating on the downside of SS privatization for women, but she addressed the disability insurance subject directly. Doug, can you remember who I'm thinking of?

Also, Martha, you might try fishing around in the New York Review of Books archives. Peterson wrote several very long articles for them in the past few decades.

Michael



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