The Privatization Threat Is Back

Prominent Republicans have come out publicly in past weeks stating that, given the chance in 2007, they will push Social Security privatization again. This includes...

• President Bush and his Chief of Staff Josh Bolten

• Treasurer Secretary Henry Paulson

• House Majority Leader John Boehner

• And other key Republicans

The Republicans apparently haven't learned their lesson from the 2005 defeat of privatization: the American public, armed with the facts, will overwhelmingly reject privatization for the bad deal that it is.