Conservatives DO Want to End Social Security

CONservative Spin:

“This is not an argument about ending Social Security; what conservatives want to do is give people better options for their retirement.”
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PROgressive Response:

By Bill Scher
December 10th, 2007
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Conservatives opposed Social Security from the time it was conceived by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Their continued disdain for the program was vividly displayed in a memo by Peter Wehner, President Bush's director of strategic initiatives and an aide to Bush advisor Karl Rove, who wrote, "For the first time in six decades, the Social Security battle is one we can win."

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