From Pine View Farm

Old Vinegar in New Bottles 2

Krugman:

Back when the Cato Institute first began pushing for individual Social Security accounts, it called its push, well, The Project on Social Security Privatization. As the Bush administration got ready to make its privatization push, however, it became clear that “privatization” polled badly. So the project was renamed The Project on Social Security Choice. And Republicans began bristling at any suggestions that they were proposing privatization, calling that a slander. Really.

If you put a pig in a poke and call it a poodle, it’s still a pig.

Via TPM.

Share

2 comments

  1. Karen

    March 16, 2010 at 11:29 am

    Now hold on. Didn’t I hear someone lately talking about privatizing S.S. again & putting seniors on a voucher medical program?

    Given all that’s happened in the stock market & with the bonds, why would anyone consider investing money for S.S. accounts in the market?

    Or am I just delusional again?

     
  2. Frank

    March 16, 2010 at 1:30 pm

    Paul Ryan–R. Cloud Cuckoo Land.

    Repubs resent that all that money is tied up in government hands where the banksters can’t get their hands on it.