{"id":2282,"date":"2009-12-16T08:11:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T08:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/republican-jim-demint-privatize-social-security\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T08:11:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T08:11:03","slug":"republican-jim-demint-privatize-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/republican-jim-demint-privatize-social-security.php","title":{"rendered":"Republican Jim DeMint: Privatize Social Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>No Nuance from this Economic Conservative<\/strong><\/p>

Liberal Pundit Al Hunt reviewed South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint's new book, \"Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America’s Slide Into Socialism\" for Bloomberg<\/a>. He wrote: <\/p>

He’s a favorite of the grassroots “tea party” brigade and Fox News. His growing cult is such that party insiders even talk about him as a potential presidential candidate. <\/p><\/blockquote>

He also noted DeMint's flat tax approach, no bailouts stance and controversial advocacy of privatization of Social Security:<\/p>

DeMint considers Social Security a “socialistic” measure and blasts the American Association of Retired Persons for promulgating “socialist solutions.” <\/p>

“What’s the harm of your grandma getting a Social Security check every month from the government?” he asks in his book. “It seems harmless enough, but that check changes the relationship between your grandma and the government.” <\/p>

In the interview, he talks of reviving President George W. Bush’s failed plan to partially privatize Social Security by having workers put a small percentage of the current levy in a personal savings account. <\/p><\/blockquote>

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No Nuance from this Economic ConservativeLiberal Pundit Al Hunt reviewed South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint's new book, \"Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America’s Slide Into Socialism\" for Bloomberg. He wrote: He’s a favorite of the grassroots “tea party” brigade and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}