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| Great Article on Bush's Ownership Society | | Date Created: Nov 09, 2004, 03:08 PM |
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THE RISK SOCIETY
by James Surowiecki
... Generally, we want people to reap the benefits of their own successes and pay a price for their failures. But Social Security and Medicare are designed to protect people from things they have little control over -- risk of illness, risk of macroeconomic change, risk of industrial obsolescence. To manage that kind of risk, you have to do it collectively....
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