Letters to Congress

[Dave Monroe]

Don't have it at hand, and it's not online, but do see
Thomas Frank, "The Trillion-Dollar Hustle: Hello Wall
Street, Goodbye, Social Security," Harper's Magazine
(January 2002), pp. 31-38 ...

http://www.harpers.org/newsstand/preview.php3

... in which Frank points out not only that said
privatization, to whatever degree, would not only
subject Social Security funds to the vicissitudes of
the Stock Market (imagine if Social Security funds had
already been invested on Wall Street, and you were
just about to retire when this past year or so hit),
but also would grant even more rhetorical, not to
mention real, force to the notion that what's good for
Wall Street is good for America, and, thus,
presumably, for the American people, who would now
find just about any regulation of business practices
to be a potential threat to their retirement funds. 
There's also a nice article about rare book
collecting.  See also ...

Frank, Thomas.  One Market under God: Extreme
   Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of
   Economic Democracy.  New York: Doubleday, 2000.

Frank is also the author of The Conquest of Cool:
Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip
Consumerism (Chicago: U of C P, 1997) and, as a
contributing editor at The Baffler ...

http://thebaffler.com/

http://thebaffler.com/gts.html

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20001030&s=frank

... co-editor, with Matt Weiland, of Commodify Your
Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler (NY: Norton, 1997). 
Q.v. ...









--- Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'd add Please do not privatize social security you
> morons there in wash dc

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