By Mortimer B. Zuckerman His Social Security reforms are neither 'social' nor 'secure' Privatization thus gets things upside down. Social Security
February 5, 2005

By Mortimer B. Zuckerman

His Social Security reforms are neither 'social' nor 'secure'

Privatization thus gets things upside down. Social Security was not meant to re-create the free market; it was intended to insure against the vagaries and cruelties of the market and to permit Americans to count on the promise that the next generation will take care of them in their old age.

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