Subject: [big campaign] McCain Offers Top Social Security 'Privatization' Advocate As Surrogate
From: "Adam Jentleson (CAPAF)" <[email-masked]>
To: "big campaign" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:43:20 -0400
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McCain Offers Top Social Security 'Privatization' Advocate As Surrogate
<http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/07/28/mccain-privatization-felds
tein/> 

Our guest blogger is Robert Gordon
<http://www.americanprogressaction.org/aboutus/staff/GordonRobert.html>
, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

Today, the McCain campaign is putting forward economist Martin Feldstein
as a surrogate.

Feldstein is widely acknowledged as the "chief intellectual force behind
privatization
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/05/ING9QD1E
5Q1.DTL&type=printable> " of Social Security. That's Feldstein's own
term. He wrote "The Case for Privatization
<http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19970701faessay3782/martin-feldstein/the-
case-for-privatization.html> " and "Privatizing Social Security: The Ten
Trillion Dollar Opportunity <http://www.cato.org/pubs/ssps/ssp7.html> ."

McCain personally endorsed
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120451614688707083.html>  Bush's
privatization plans as recently as March, but yesterday, he said "there
is nothing I would demand" in a Social Security package and even said
that tax increases are not "off the table."

Social Security privatization may be another example of the McCain
campaign's private agenda
<http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/07/25/holtzeakin-rhetoric-gap/>
- the agenda the campaign keeps to itself.

http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/07/28/mccain-privatization-feldst
ein/

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