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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Sunday, March 20, 2005

Americans: No borrowing for private accounts

Well, 2/3rds of them, anyway:
In the March 15-17 poll, Time asked respondents if they favored or opposed Bush's plan if the government had to borrow as much as $2 trillion to pay for the transition as payroll taxes, which are used to pay benefits for retirees, are diverted into personal accounts. Fully 67 percent of those polled opposed the plan under those circumstances and 24 percent were in favor. Nine percent said they didn't know.