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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 09:11 AM
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4. Excellent article, I would hope the sleeping dimwits in this
country are paying attention.

adding from the article......

The steps they recommended were strikingly similar to the course Bush has taken: reassuring retirees that their benefits would not be cut and arguing that Social Security is financially unstable.

"Our reform strategy involves what one might crudely call guerrilla warfare against both the current Social Security system and the coalition that supports it," they wrote. "An economic education campaign … must be undertaken to demonstrate the weaknesses of the current system."

What's more, they argued, "building a constituency for Social Security reform requires mobilizing the various coalitions that stand to benefit from the change…. The business community and financial institutions, in particular, would be an obvious element in the constituency."
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