Salon - Social Absurdity
The push to entrust the rapacious financial industry with Social Security money is being led by a former advisor to murderous Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
Presents principles and findings of the Commission, presenting three models for privatization.
Arguments Outline: The Social Security Debate
Outlines and elaborates arguments advocating privatization of Social Security system.
Institute for America's Future
Arguing for the continuation of Social Security without privatization, with guide to issues, news, and resources.
Social Security Information Page
Information and links about Social Security privatization in the context of President Bush's 2000 campaign for the White House.
60 Plus Association - Social Security
Conservative seniors advocacy group advocating personal, private savings accounts.
Don't Privatize Social Security
The AFL-CIO labor union's opinion on privatization and other Social Security issues.
Center For American Progress - Primer on President Bush's "Plan" for Social Security Privatization
An economist analyzes Bush's plan and finds it would force massive benefit cuts, cost trillions in new borrowing, weaken its financial outlook; plus how government "clawback" would eat into any gains in private accounts.
Americans for Tax Reform
Articles advocating privatization and personal accounts.
Business Week - Whose Social Security Stash Is It?
Essay exploring how money put into a private account won't really belong to people in the way a paycheck does.
Business Week - Why Private Accounts Are Bad Public Policy
Author Robert Barro examines the Bush proposals on Social Security and finds it is a needless complication that will makes things worse. [Free registration required.]
Retiring with Dignity: Social Security versus Private Markets
From the Cato organization. A position paper supporting privatization of Social Security.
Cato Social Security Choice Papers
Collection of libertarian essays that advocate and analyze privatizing Social Security.
Would Private Accounts Provide A Higher Rate Of Return Than Social Security?
Examines the economic analysis made by proponents of President Bush's privatization plan and finds several of Bush's assumptions and conclusions to be misleading or erroneous. From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Arguments against the privatization of Social Security.
Citizens for a Sound Economy
Advocating in favor of individual private accounts.
Economic Policy Institute - Pulling a Fast One? The Facts About Social Security
Looks at the Social Security debate largely from an African-American perspective and examines what it is, its actual purpose, sovency, and President Bush's proposals to change it.
Estelle James
Research and advocacy on the subjct of Social Security reform, with a focus on privatization.
For Our Grandchildren
Advocates Social Security reform through the creation of private accounts.
Heritage Foundation Social Security Calculator
Heritage Foundation's take on the future of Social Security.
Institute for Policy Innovation
Arguing that Social Security reform should include private accounts.
Los Angeles Times - The Meathead Proposition
Asserts the logic on privatization fails because Bush assumes one thing to claim there is a problem, and then something different to claim he has the solution.
Los Angeles Times - Kinsley's Proof That Social Security Privatization Won't Work
Contends that Social Security privatization is not just unlikely to succeed, it is mathematically certain to fail.
National Center for Policy Analysis - 12-Step Plan for Social Security Reform
Advocating privatization of Social Security.
National Center for Policy Analysis
Non-profit public policy research institute advocating private sector solutions.
Bush's Plan to Loot Social Security
Accuses privatization proponents of lying about the current situation to gain control over the money involved.
National Organization for Women - Social Security
Oppozing privatization or benefits cuts for Social Security.
International Center for Pension Reform
Promotes the reform of government-run pension systems along the Chilean model of private savings accounts.
Gambling With Your Retirement
New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman reads through the rhetoric and finds the privatization scheme is really a government loan that may leave retirees with little or nothing.
National Center for Public Policy Research - Health Care & Retirement Security
Advocacy of privatization of Social Security, and against national health care coverage.
American Prospect Social Security Coverage
Articles arguing that people will be worse off if Social Security is privatized.
Social Security: Bush's Lies vs. Reality
Comments on several claims by Bush as to why privatization is needed, and finds Bush is being dishonest, or giving the wrong causes to the actual problems. Includes extensive graphs and charts.
Rolling Stone - The Fake Crisis
Economist Paul Krugman explains Bush's argument to privatize social security as a swindle that will cost Americans trillions of dollars.
Salon - Bush's Dirty Little Secret
Here's what the president didn't say in his State of the Union address: his plan to privatize Social Security will be hugely expensive and will make the average worker worse off.
Save Social Security
Advocating the transition of Social Security into a totally privatized program. From Vutec Corporation.
Campaign for America’s Future - Sign the Pledge
Petition drive to oppose diverting any Social Security revenues to private investment accounts.
Cato Institute - Project on Social Security Choice
Promoting privatization of Social Security and creation of private accounts.
Social Security BullShit: A Socratic Discussion with a Texas Cowboy at McDonald’s
Using non-technical language and a dialogue format, explains the problems with privatization and misleading privatization arguments. Logical fallacies and economic concepts are presented.
Club for Growth - Social Security Choice
Advocating in favor of private Social Security Accounts.
Social Security Matters
Designed to be a resource for women on what Social Security is, its importance, and the debate to privatize the program. From the Older Women's League.
Heritage Foundation - Social Security Reform Center
Arguing that privatization is necessary to preserve Social Security benefits.
Chicago Sun-Times - Social Security Plan an Ideological Crusade
Editorial by William O'Rourke finding stark contradictions in Bush's plan and sees his attempt as an ideological battle seeking victory instead of an economic one seeking a solution.
National Center for Policy Analysis
Arguing for changes in indexing and private accounts in the reform of Social Security.
Privatization: The Ultimate 'Lockbox' for Social Security
Argument in favor of private accounts, from Tech Central Station.
UAW Region 8 - Save Social Security
Statement from the United Auto Workers Union arguing that privatization is detrimental to workers, costing trillions of dollars and requiring massive cuts in benefits.
USA Next
Advocating for private retirement accounts.
U.S.News & World Report - Conjuring Up a Crisis
Analyzes Bush's plan and finds despite Bush's promises to help posterity, it does nothing to solve Social Security's financial problems and would instead sink America deeper into debt.
White House's Social Security Page
President Bush's plan to reform Social Security. Personal retirement accounts, rate of return on Social Security tax dollars.
Women and Social Security
Resource on women's economic security, and especially the in retirement and the possible effects of Social Security privatization on women. From the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
Z Facts - Social Security FAQ
Asks if Social Security really is in trouble, why it is important, and who wants to privatize it.
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