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Can Small Investors Survive Social Security Privatization?, Elisabeth Brooke Harrington
Can Small Investors Survive Social Security Privatization?, Elisabeth Brooke Harrington
Brooke Harrington
It has become nearly axiomatic in this country to argue that everything would be better off if it were run like a business. In response, government has shifted its mission: if it used to operate like Super Glue, bonding Americans to one another, it is now working more like WD-40, minimizing friction in the pursuit of individual (and corporate) profit. Social Security is not only the largest government program, but the embodiment of the Super Glue approach to politics: the ultimate test case for privatization.