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Title: Social Security
Post by: RationalThought110 on July 01, 2007, 10:28:31 AM

What did you think of the idea to partially privatize it? 

Title: Re: Social Security
Post by: newman on July 01, 2007, 10:37:29 AM

Privatising a trading body that a gov't owns like a power company is one thing. Privatising a gov't service like welfare just means that full time civil servents with livable sallaries and health care get replaced by low paid part-timers and the savings go into the pocket of a CEO...probably a foreign one at that.

Title: Re: Social Security
Post by: RationalThought110 on July 01, 2007, 10:40:15 AM

Quote from: newman on July 01, 2007, 10:37:29 AM

Privatising a trading body that a gov't owns like a power company is one thing. Privatising a gov't service like welfare just means that full time civil servents with livable sallaries and health care get replaced by low paid part-timers and the savings go into the pocket of a CEO...probably a foreign one at that.

Are you saying that privatization of it would cause people to lose their jobs?

Title: Re: Social Security
Post by: newman on July 01, 2007, 10:46:57 AM

I'm speaking generally. I havn't seen this particular proposal.

Title: Re: Social Security
Post by: RationalThought110 on July 01, 2007, 10:53:11 AM

Quote from: newman on July 01, 2007, 10:46:57 AM

I'm speaking generally. I havn't seen this particular proposal.

It was from 2005.  I'll post an article about it later.