[lbo-talk] Privatization of SS?

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Wed May 13 10:17:11 PDT 2009


--- On Wed, 5/13/09, farmelantj at juno.com <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:


>
> If SS is ever privatized, that will
> happen under a Democratic administration,
> not a Republican one.  The unhappy experience
> of Dubya shows that no Republican president
> can ever hope to pull this off.  However,
> Bill Clinton's success in abolishing AFDC
> and passing NAFTA and GATT, neither of which
> were very popular with the Democratic base,
> suggests that a Democratic president could
> conceivably succeed in such an endeavor.
> In fact Bill Clinton was ready to present
> his own reforms of SS, but he then got
> caught up in Monicagate.

[WS:] And only Nixon could go to China ..... I am very well aware of this well established in the US politics pattern, and that is why I finds news like that very scary.

Wojtek



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