FAIR-Clinton's Privatization Bill Of Oct. 22,1998; Is Social Security On The Table With Hillary?

[DhhD]

http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/10/clinton-signs-privatization-bill/4725/

On Monday, President Clinton signed the Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act of 1998, which requires federal agencies to review their activities and define them as either inherently governmental or potentially subject to privatization. The bill had passed the Senate in August and the House earlier this month.
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Hillary Clinton is inferring that means testing will help Social Security recipients. Who is planning on giving the testing to and how will we the taxpayers and recipients pay for the testing? Oh, I believe that she has a team on Wall Street already in waiting. IMO Clinton wants to secure a fee FOR Wall Street and Sanders wants to take a tiny fee FROM Wall Street for each of its transactions. I agree with Bernie.

[riversedge]

1. You obviously know nothing about her Soc Security plans-yet post a 1998 article? Then you

make inferences about What?? Means testing?? What are you saying?

[jfern]

2. The Clinton administration pushed a lot of right-wing crap

So lets not have another right-wing Clinton as President

[riversedge]

3. We are talking about HIllary Clinton's position on Soc Security --not Bill Clinton.

[markpkessinger]

10. Her own words during the debate . . .

. . . sounded an awful lot like support for means-testing:

"I want to enhance the benefits for the poorest recipients of Social Security. We have a lot of women on Social Security, particularly widowed and single women who didn't make a lot of money during their careers, and they are impoverished, and they need more help from the Social Security system.

And I will focus -- I will focus on helping those people who need it the most. And of course I'm going to defend Social Security. I'm going to look for ways to try to make sure it's solvent into the future.

[cprise]

14. "Two for the price of one" Clintons both defend NAFTA and welfare "reform"

And Hillary exerted a "veto" power over Bill's cabinet... if she did not like someone they had to go.

What do you think that is, housekeeping?

If she exerted that kind of power over the cabinet, then she IS responsible for Bill's presidency!

Apart from her flattering public charade for healthcare, behind the scenes she was very much involved. Its inconceivable that she would continue to defend NAFTA now as a "progressive" unless she considered it a personal accomplishment.

[Scuba]

8. I know a bit about her good pal Pete Peterson.

If Hillary is elected POTUS, say goodbye to Social Security.

[jfern]

4. According to this, Social Security would be been privitized

had Bill not been impeached for having a BJ.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/10/30/how-monica-lewinsky-saved-social-security/


Lets not elect any more of these Clinton "Democrats".

[riversedge]

5. And once again-we are talking about Hillary's position on Soc Security and you keep brining

up old crap that may or may not have happened.

[jfern]

6. She's 3rd way to the bone just like her husband

[riversedge]

7. Well, since you are not on this thread to discuss anything

pertinent to the OP then I am finished with your comments. Enough. bye

[Sheepshank]

15. What a sexist asinine comment

She's not Bill. She is not a shadow person and sycophant in that relationship. You should be ashamed of your comment...trying to put women in their place has no place on DU.

What a disgusting angle you are pushing over and over.

[jfern]

18. Quit playing the sexist card

It was pathetic to use it in 2008 and it's pathetic now. She has enough of a record of her own to see that she's perfectly 3rd way. Are you saying it's somehow sexist to criticize Jeb for having his brother and dad be terrible Presidents?

[Sheepshank]

22. No it's sexist to claim Hillary is nothing but a shadow of Bill

A sychophant without a brain of her own.

You attempting to change the trajectory of those words tells me someone is trying to walk it back

Yes, it was sexist and disgusting and puts women's self directed abilities back decades. Thanks for nothing. That comments belong on a RW blog.

[jfern]

24. No one said she's just a shadow

She's got enough of a record to see that her positions on the issues are similar to this of her husbands. In 2008, Obama supporters were all said to be sexist for not supporting her, and it seems like the same baseless attacks are going on here.

Again, when someone says Jeb would be a shitty President like his brother, are people being sexist?

[Sheepshank]

25. We are not talking about Jeb....poor deflection

[DhhD]

30. We are talking about candidates for the 2016 election who base their policies on past and

present Presidents. Hillary says that she will go further with Obama's policies; listen to her. Go further with chaining Social Security, and what do you get? Testing. For what reason? We need to raise the amount of income for every American. Income equality is not a policy of Hillary Clinton, in my opinion.

Privatizers have come in to public education and moved it to profiteers by TESTING students. Head of U. S. Department of Education has resigned.

People are not going to go along with Hillary on means testing. Period.

When I look at Hillary Clinton's policies and look into her window of personality and accomplishmenting, if you will; to me, she is a 1% Populist, not a Progressive.

For Democrats, the choice is looking like, Sanders/Left/Progressive vs. Clinton/Left-Right/Populist vs. Republican/Right/Extremist, before the Primaries.

IMO, Clinton is the new Left of Right Democrat. And we certainly do not need anyone running to the right of Obama; no more extremism, please.

[Divernan]

12. Thank the gods for unintended consequences!

Also, technically, he was not impeached for getting a blow job in the Oval Office, but for lying about it under oath.

In any case, on behalf of all us social security recipients, a heartfelt thank you to Monica Lewinsky, whose life Bill Clinton permanently marred.

[cprise]

16. What that article depicts is CHILLING:

WH was far along in its planning for privatization and knew it would be very unpopular. When the Lewinsky scandal hit, he turned to the public as Social Security's savior in order to save his own skin!!!

It even makes sense from the standpoint of coping with the Repubs: He could flip on the issue and use it as a bargaining chip. The Republicans grossly miscalculated!

[ibegurpard]

9. everything's on the table with Hillary

Except reinstatement of actual meaningful regulation of the financial industry that worked for 60 years...

[Vinca]

11. When it comes to Social Security, Medicare and entitlements, Hillary scares me.

If anyone would offer a compromise that screws the average person over, it would be Hillary. She learned from Bill who passed "reform" legislation by holding hands with Newt Gingrich. This isn't what we need.

[JaneyVee]

13. Hillary has 100% rating from ARA for protecting SS.

[jfern]

19. Obama probably did too

That didn't stop him from coming up with that terrible chained CPI idea.

As if CPI isn't already vastly overstated. The CPI-U has actually gone down over the last 12 months. Funny how none of my expenses have gone down.

[Zorra]

17. Any policy that profits wealthy private interests is always on the table

for Third Way politicians.

[liberal_at_heart]

20. Any Democrat who uses code phrases like "ensuring the viability of SS" means that

cuts to SS are on the table. If they really wanted to ensure the viability of SS they would expand it like Bernie wants to do.

[MineralMan]

21. What does a Bill Clinton bill-signing in 1998 have to

do with Hillary Clinton in 2015? While they share a last name and are married to each other, one was President. The other wasn't. In fact, she wasn't in any office at the time.

Want to know what she things. Ask her. Bill Clinton's history from almost 20 years ago isn't pertinent.

[DhhD]

23. Its called FAIR: Democrats can be Republicans upon being backed by the Right team!

Hillary scares me to death!

[Maedhros]

26. It will be if Wall Street tells her to put it on the table...[n/t]

[DhhD]

29. Privatizing is another star in the blanket on the back of the Elephant.

Privatizing Social Security would be moving a star to the top of the blanket or maybe merit enough, for the GOP to add a star.

Under the FAIR Star, Hillary could make the decision, after, coming into office, just as she has told Americans about her, Plans, that are deeper than Obama's. This scares me to death!

[Robbins]

27. If you vote for Clinton

enjoy your cuts to SS.unfortully your probally ensure me and others on SSI get cuts too.

[tularetom]

28. This message needs to be spread as widely as possible

And someone on Bernie Sanders staff needs to find a way for him to introduce it into the conversation without overtly making it personal, since he dislikes negative campaigning. But it's important that all Americans who have contributed to SS become aware of it.

BTW, she wants the kind of "means testing" that will really help SS recipients? Fine, just remove the income cap for contributions to the fund. That's means testing that would help everybody, except maybe the people who have given her tons of money.

[reddread]

31. come on

Wall St. needs the money more than anyone else that matters.