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Social Security & Medicare

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FogerRox

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Thu Mar 14, 2013, 05:27 PM Mar 2013

Welcome to the Social Security Medicare Group. Here is a link to the 1983 GOP Playbook [View all]

in its fight to dismantle SS. From 1983, CATO of course.

Achieving a Leninist Strategy (1983)
Stuart Butler and Peter Germanis

Many critics of the present system believe, as Marx and Lenin did of capitalism, that the system’s days are numbered because of its contradictory objectives of attempting to provide both welfare and insurance. All that really needs to be done, they contend, is to point out these inherent flaws to the taxpayers and to show them that Social Security would be vastly improved if it were restructured into a predominantly private system.


"... the strategy must be to propose moving to a private Social Security system in such a way as to ... neutralize ... the coalition that supports the existing system." (p. 555)

"The next Social Security crisis may be further away than many people believe. ... it could be many years before the conditions are such that a radical reform of Social Security is possible. But then, as Lenin well knew, to be a successful revolutionary, one must also be patient and consistently plan for real reform."



http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/1983/11/cj3n2-11.pdf

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Thanks for doing this. Cleita Mar 2013 #1
Thank SKinner and ELad for making it happen, I only lobbied for a week, asking SKinner to set it up. FogerRox Mar 2013 #2
I think this is a much needed group. NV Whino Mar 2013 #3
With Squester and debt limit talks over the next month FogerRox Mar 2013 #6
Checking in. dmr Mar 2013 #4
Thanks. Pull up a chair. FogerRox Mar 2013 #5
kr HiPointDem Mar 2013 #7
Welcome. FogerRox Mar 2013 #13
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Great idea for a group! UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #10
Thanks for getting this group started. PETRUS Mar 2013 #11
Thanks for staring this group. Stinky The Clown Mar 2013 #12
Glad to see this group got started. limpyhobbler Mar 2013 #14
Checking in as well. Raine1967 Mar 2013 #15
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