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1) Rick Santorum is working with George Bush to privatize social security.
"Social Security May Cost Santorum His Job," Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2005
"...Mr. Santorum, the Senate Republicans' third-ranking leader and a nationally recognized conservative with White House ambitions, has emerged as the president's biggest backer on Social Security...And no one has privately pressed harder for wary Republicans in Congress to stick by the president and his private-accounts proposal -- and even to go for larger accounts."
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2) Eliminating the guaranteed benefit for seniors and putting your retirement security at risk.
"Social Security Formula Weighed - Bush Plan Likely to Cut Initial Benefits," January 4, 2005
Roll Call 49, S.Amdt. 145 to S. Con. Res. 18, March 15, 2005
"Social Security May Cost Santorum His Job," Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2005
"...Santorum notes that he has been elected and re-elected by campaigning as an advocate for private accounts. Yet now that Mr. Bush is actually trying to write law, he also is calling for future reductions in promised benefits, saying that personal accounts alone won't avert Social Security's projected insolvency. All but the poorest workers would see some reduction in traditional benefits under Mr. Bush's outline. Account holders would have another reduction, to offset the payroll taxes they had diverted to private accounts."
"...Proponents hope that workers can earn higher returns by investing in a limited range of stocks, receive less from Social Security when they retire, and still come out ahead."
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"Meet The Press," NBC News, March 3, 2005 - Windows Media - Quicktime