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To: Don Hurst who wrote (126)9/20/2008 12:02:14 PM
From: IRWIN JAMES FRANKEL1 Recommendation  Respond to of 358
 
Privatizing SS never made good sense. Like IRA's, and other self administered plans, few will benefit other than insurance, brokerage, and administration companies. Yet the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution was driven by two powerful factors, corporate cost control and favorable laws (a policy error in my view).

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