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Investment banker hates Social Security!

Posted by linkmeister on 3 January 2011, 2:52 pm

Pete Peterson and his henchman David Walker keep shrieking that entitlements will kill us all unless the middle class gives them up. It’s instructive to see what he really thought of them as far back as 1994: To Peterson, the Concord Coalition, “Lead . . . or Leave,” and others, Social Security is an expensive …

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