Bush Gets Personal
January 28, 2005
As the Bush administration gears up for a protracted Social Security overhaul fight, its first battle appears to be one of semantics. The President used to use ‘privatization’ to describe aspects of his social security plan but it seems that word has negative connotations, so ‘personal’ has taken its place. And the press? Well, the language battle is still being fought. Bob speaks with Michael Tanner, director of the social security project at the libertarian Cato Institute. He’s been involved in designing the proposed changes both to the system…and to the language.
