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Bill: He stood by his principles
Cockburn, Alexander | August 26, 1996 issue

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The day after U.S. President Bill Clinton destroyed and important chunk of the New Deal, "The Wall Street Journal," exulted that the next target would be Social Security. The journal's gleeful prediction indicates the scope of the counterrevolution. Under furious assault here is the idea of universality; public education for all, public assistance for all the destitute, health care for all, pensions for all through a federal program. The fact that the pension system works well and is extremely popular matters little. Bipartisan commissions use absurdly deflated estimates of economic growth to predict insolvency.

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PRESIDENTS -- United States; PERIODICALS; SOCIAL security; EDUCATION; MEDICAL care; UNITED States
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