#privatization

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#debt #dollars #economic #economic security #new

We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#first #future #innovative #more #need

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization. ↗

— Max Baucus

#embark #fact #fund #good #in fact

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#been #chicago #citadel #city #conservatives