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Monday, February 21, 2005
"Guerrilla Warfare" Against Social Security
What, exactly, are the Republicans trying to do to Social Security? The same thing they've been attempting for more than a quarter century: destroy it. The Washington Post's business guru Jeffrey H. Birnbaum writes this key graf in the major front page article dealing with the history of the right wing attack on FDR's signature program.
In the fall of 1983, Cato made clear that it was preparing for a protracted fight. It published a paper by Heritage Foundation scholars Stuart M. Butler and Peter Germanis that called for "guerrilla warfare against both the current Social Security system and the coalition that supports it." They compared the drive to Nikolai Lenin's effort to undermine capitalism: "Lenin well knew to be a successful revolutionary one must also be patient and consistently plan for real reform." [emphasis added]Check out this entire well-written piece to get an idea of the scope of the ideological war the right has been waging against Social Security. It's striking. They apparently will stop at nothing to destroy the program, and the sooner the American people realize this is Bush's real goal in privatization, the better off they'll be.
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