The Republican push to privatize Social Security is back!

Palin Trumps Obama - On a Trojan Horse Filled With Bankers

February 11, 2010

Never underestimate Sarah Palin. She did a better job articulating anti-banker sentiment at last week's Tea Party Convention than Obama's done. Its followers don't realize it, but the Tea Party movement is really a Trojan Horse filled with bankers and lobbyists. It's a brilliantly designed mechanism for channeling anti-bank rage to the banks' own benefit, with Palin et al. in the forefront.

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No Mandate for Privatization

By Alex Carter

November 16, 2007

Just as in 2005, the public can ensure that Republican leadership doesn't forget: There is NO public mandate for Social Security privatization. By an almost two-to-one margin, according to Democracy Corps surveys, the public says it will not support trading guaranteed retirement security and the most successful antipoverty program in the country's history for guaranteed benefit cuts and guaranteed risks on Wall Street. Grassroots campaigns across the country will revive the drive to save Social Security.

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The Privatization Threat Is Back

By Chris Collins

November 16, 2007

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.