hour, as well as the president for the national organization for women. as well as a piece of videotape we got in today in which a governor does his job by setting a whole bunch of stuff on fire in front of a cheering crowd. it is a civics lesson with way better visuals than civic lessons usually have. but we begin tonight with a transformation. in 1995, a conservative think tank called the cato institute started something called the project on social security privatization. it was 1995, and conservatives really wanted to get rid of social security by privatizing it. so they formed an institute to do that. when george w. bush became president, the hopes for abolishing social security got pinned to the new republican president. but part of realizing that the president was really going to run with their idea, that they might actually realize their dream, also meant giving in to the republican spin doctoring of their message, of their idea. the republican rebranding of it. and so what had
gradually pays into a personal account. a personal retirement account that will earn a better rate of return than the current social security thrust earns. if you say your prayers and keep your fingers crossed. don t say privatized. say personal. that was what the branding guys said. privatization of something as beloved as social security was so abhorrent to people, it polled so badly, they really had to turn the spin doctoring up to stun on this one. that old project on social security privatization from which bush got his policy template, they not only changed its name to drop the privatization part of it, they also tried to go back in time to expunge any evidence muof their old name after the fact to drop the privatization thing. but it didn t work. everybody still knew that bush was trying to privatize social security. but he didn t get away with it. what they tried with social
account. a personal retirement account that will earn a better rate of return than the current social security thrust earns. if you say your prayers and keep your fingers crossed. don t say privatized. say personal. that was what the branding guys said. privatization of something as beloved as social security was so abhorrent to people, it polled so badly, they really had to turn the spin doctoring up to stun on this one. that old project on social security privatization from which bush got his policy template, they not only changed its name to drop the privatization part of it, they also tried to go back in time to expunge any evidence of their old name after the fact to drop the privatization thing. but it didn t work. everybody still knew that bush was trying to privatize social security. but he didn t get away with it. what they tried with social security, though, republicans are now trying with medicare. they are trying to get rid of it through privatization. what i mean by that