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Aging
Social Security's 73rd Anniversary
August 29th, 2008
On Social Security's 73rd Anniversary August 14, ex-U.S. House Committee on Aging Chief of Staff Robert Weiner is saying, "Calls to 'reform' Social Security through privatization are a cry-wolf, granny-you're-on-your-own, Wall Street giveaway which would turn Social Security from a guarantee to a gamble. They are the real threat to the program." "It's time to end the widespread myth that Social Security is faltering," says Weiner, who directed the House Aging Committee under former Chairman Claude Pepper (D-FL) and also was communications director for the House Government Operations Committee and a Clinton White House senior staff member. "The...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-08-29)
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