last nite the prez -ly
said
''One of the interesting ideas
was by this fellow ....
a Democrat economist
named of Pozen"
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heres who
this ass wipe iz
"Robert Pozen
former top echelon
of Fidelity Investments
taught law at Harvard
" served in
Governor Mitt Romney's
cabinet
and currently runs
one of the nation's
oldest mutual-fund companies"
"Pozen is actually a lawyer
not an economist
but he is a Democrat"
"Pozen, 58,
is chairman of MFS Investment Management
the Boston investment firm
that claims to have invented
the mutual fund"
"he served on Bush's 2001
Commission to Strengthen
Social Security "
" We have to stop talking
about desserts
and start talking about spinach,"
Pozen sez"
his e form of spinach :
end wage indexation
price indexation
but price indexing
with a twist
he calls
"progressive indexation."
" He would allow low-wage workers
those with average career earnings
of less than $25,000
to stick with wage indexation"
" Those with incomes above $113,000
would be subjected
to full price indexation"
" Everyone in the middle
would experience
a blend of the two"
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"Pozen describes private accounts
as a ''sweetener,"
sugar to help the medicine
go down more easily"
He would allow workers to put 2 percent
of their pay into investment accounts
rather than the 4 percent proposed by Bush
Peter Diamond, an MIT economist
fears that Pozen's plan
could make Social Security
too unattractive to the affluent
''I worry it would undo
political support for the program,"
Posted by pinky at April 30, 2005 10:00 AM
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