I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.
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Numerous factors affect the size of state bureaucracies, including demographics, crime levels and the propensity of states to contract or privatize services such as prisons or solid waste collection.
Henderson Land's strong gains were due mainly to speculation that it might privatize unit Hong Kong China Gas and launch a real estate investment trust.
When you privatize a common-property resource and hand it to a few individuals, you have taken private free enterprise right out of the picture.
It's scandalous that Premier Campbell is in Europe furthering his plot to privatize our system while here at home seniors across the province are suffering from lack of home support, residential care beds, and end of life care.
The president's speech tonight used lofty, yet recycled, rhetoric to paint a picture of a country that has prospered and become stronger in this new century. Unfortunately, that's not the America his policies have created for too many families... A year ago, the president overreached by threatening to privatize and dismantle Social Security. This year, he reached for too little.
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
It is advisable for the country to privatize the state Telecommunication Company (HONDUTEL), and allow larger competition on the market for its 4-million debt to be pardoned.
The Social Security surplus is always being spent. Now it's going to defense and rebuilding rather than paying down debt. From a psychological standpoint, spending it may even be good for privatization. Opponents might use that surplus as a hedge, saying we've got money in a lock-box and don't need to privatize.
Once they sell off what they are calling isolated bits and pieces, they will just dig deeper to sell off more. This administration is draining the Treasury, putting us into hock, so it can say with a straight face that we have no money and there is no other solution but to privatize.
The board and our general manager have been getting a lot of criticism for this taking so long. Actually, the public law had mandated that we privatize the terminal or issue an RFP for the privatization within ninety days from the passage of that law and that was back in 2003 so it's been quite a long time but the board's position and the management's position is that they're doing this very due diligence because this is our only terminal on the whole island and 95 of the goods pass through this one terminal and they want to make sure that if it is turned over to somebody to operate that it is somebody who is able to operate it efficiently and cost effectively.
Our position is that we want to protect community services, and there's no need to privatize or make cuts if there is no economic crisis in the city.
However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.
Colorado is at a crossroads. We can privatize our public universities or we can begin to fund them at a level that continues their present missions.
The drive to privatize, or really personalize, Social Security simply proves that small business owners want to regain control of their money from the federal government.
You've got the general problem of poverty and lack of government capacity. In Africa, everyone is encouraged to privatize, but there is a very important role of the state, strengthening oversight and regulatory mechanisms as you open up the economy. We've gone far in one way, but not the other.