Bush's House of Cards.(George W. Bush and social security)
American Prospect, The, September, 2001 by DREYFUSS, ROBERT
The privatization scheme is wobbling: Mainly, it has energized Democrats, labor, and the elderly to resist handing Social Security to Wall Street.
ON A SWELTERING MORNING IN LATE JULY, 300 demonstrators, rallying to defend Social Security against President Bush's plan to dismantle it, swarmed around the presidential limousine as it pulled up in front of the Capital Hilton. Inside the hotel, members of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security--which is supposed to come up with a program that replaces a chunk of Social Security with uninsured private-investment ...
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